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#7df06d

a light, electric green · cool · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: Linen Fern

RGB
125, 240, 109
HSL
113°, 81%, 68%
CMYK
48, 0, 55, 6
Luminance
0.6778

#7df06d is a light electric green, 113° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.56:1). As text it scores 1.44:1 on white — use #1D880E instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(113 81% 68%)rgb(125 240 109)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7df06d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7df06d
Hue
113°
green
Saturation
81%
electric
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
94%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6778
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.56:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
77.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.859
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 11
Web-safe
#66FF66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue113° of 360°
Saturation81%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7df06d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool59% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red6%
Green92%
Blue2%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#7df06d
HEX (8-digit)#7df06dff
RGBrgb(125, 240, 109)
RGBArgba(125, 240, 109, 1)
HSLhsl(113, 81%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(113, 55%, 94%)
HWBhwb(113 43% 6%)
CMYKcmyk(48%, 0%, 55%, 6%)
LABlab(85.9 -57.2 52.7)
LCHlch(85.9 77.8 137.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.859 0.200 141.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(42.38, 67.78, 25.32)
Decimal8253549
Display P3color(display-p3 0.490 0.941 0.427)
Web-safe#66FF66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7df06d;
background-color: #7df06d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7df06d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7df06d] bg-[#7df06d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7df06d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.490, green: 0.941, blue: 0.427)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.490, green: 0.941, blue: 0.427, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7DF06D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7DF06D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7DF06D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(109, 240, 125)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(125, 240, 109)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(125, 240, 109)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 125, 240, 109)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4902f, 0.9412f, 0.4275f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{125,240,109}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7df06d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7df06d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#18740C, #D6EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7df06d h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F4FCF2;
  --brand-100: #E8F9E6;
  --brand-200: #CCF6C6;
  --brand-300: #A4F599;
  --brand-400: #7df06d;
  --brand-500: #4AEA33;
  --brand-600: #2FDE17;
  --brand-700: #27B913;
  --brand-800: #1F940F;
  --brand-900: #1B6B0F;
  --brand-950: #11430A;
  --brand: #7df06d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C5EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #60ED4C;
  --brand-pressed: #43E92C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #162414;
    --brand-ink: #D6EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FCF2',
        100: '#E8F9E6',
        200: '#CCF6C6',
        300: '#A4F599',
        400: '#7df06d',
        500: '#4AEA33',
        600: '#2FDE17',
        700: '#27B913',
        800: '#1F940F',
        900: '#1B6B0F',
        950: '#11430A',
        DEFAULT: '#7df06d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FCF2,
  '100': #E8F9E6,
  '200': #CCF6C6,
  '300': #A4F599,
  '400': #7df06d,
  '500': #4AEA33,
  '600': #2FDE17,
  '700': #27B913,
  '800': #1F940F,
  '900': #1B6B0F,
  '950': #11430A,
);
$brand-base: #7df06d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FCF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F9E6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCF6C6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A4F599", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7df06d", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4AEA33", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2FDE17", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#27B913", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1F940F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B6B0F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#11430A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #7df06d · 14.56:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.56:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7df06d as text scores 1.44:1 on white and 14.56:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #18740C at 4.11:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#1D880E · 4.58:1
AA on white−39% L
#1D880E
The quick fox
#15630A · 7.44:1
AAA on white−47% L
#15630A
The quick fox
#7df06d · 14.56:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7df06d
The quick fox
#7df06d · 14.56:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7df06d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #24A811 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#7df06d on white: 1.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7df06d on black: 14.56:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7df06d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7df06d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.44:1AaAa
Slate 501.38:1AaAa
Slate 1001.32:1AaAa
Slate 2001.17:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.78:1AaAa
Slate 5003.30:1AaAa
Slate 6005.25:1AaAa
Slate 7007.18:1AaAa
Slate 80010.14:1AaAa
Slate 90012.38:1AaAa
Black14.56:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F5DD60
deuteranopia · #E6D377
tritanopia · #70E9D3

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #7df06d is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4FCF2
#E8F9E6
#CCF6C6
#A4F599
#7df06d
#4AEA33
#2FDE17
#27B913
#1F940F
#1B6B0F
#11430A
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F4FCF2Darkest = 950 · #11430AText step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.050 141.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.080 141.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.120 141.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.156 141.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.184 141.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.200 141.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.200 141.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.188 141.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.168 141.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.140 141.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.110 141.3);
}

Colors that work with #7df06d

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C5EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#549B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#C06AF3
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#18740C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFDE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#162414
Dark-mode background
Hover#60ED4C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#43E92C
Two steps down
Disabled#E2ECE1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#88F978
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7df06d

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #18740C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #24A811

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

safegrowingnaturalpermissive

Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight32/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#E06DF0
Analogous left#BEF06D
Analogous right#6DF09E
Split-complement 1#9E6DF0
Split-complement 2#F06DBE
Triadic 1#6D7DF0
Triadic 2#F06D7D
Tetradic#6DBEF0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°113°

#7df06d sits at 113°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.0%
Green94.1%
Blue42.7%
R · 0–255
125
0x7d
G · 0–255
240
0xf0
B · 0–255
109
0x6d

CMYK percentages

Cyan47.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow54.6%
Key (black)5.9%

Total ink coverage is 108%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7df06d text on a black background

contrast 14.56:1

Card sample

#7df06d text on a white background

contrast 1.44:1

Card sample

#7df06d on grey

1.32:1

#7df06d on its own surface

1.36:1

#7df06d on its dark surface

11.23:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7df06d;
Background color
Panel with #7df06d background
background-color: #7df06d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7df06d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(125, 240, 109, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(125, 240, 109, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7df06d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7df06d, #6DF0B4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7df06d, #6DF0D5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7df06d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7df06d;
caret-color: #7df06d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7df06d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFDE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7df06d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7df06d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7df06d over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(125, 240, 109, 0.5)
rgb(125 240 109 / 50%)
#7df06d80
hsl(113 81% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7df06d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7df06d1a#F2FEF0
20%#7df06d33#E5FCE2
40%#7df06d66#CBF9C5
60%#7df06d99#B1F6A7
80%#7df06dcc#97F38A

Gradients from #7df06d

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AEF6A4, #7df06d 45%, #18740C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7df06d, #51EDB3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7df06d, #E06DF0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C7F9C0 0%, #7df06d 45%, #18740C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DAF59B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #89F3BA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #18740C 0%, transparent 65%), #7df06d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7df06d

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#7df06d in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
SustainabilityFinanceHealth and wellnessAgriculture
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 14.56:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#7df06d, answered

What color is #7df06d?

#7df06d is a light electric green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 113° on the hue wheel with 81% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7df06d?

rgb(125, 240, 109) — 125 red, 240 green and 109 blue out of 255, or 49% / 94.1% / 42.7% by channel.

What is #7df06d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(113, 81%, 68%) and hsv(113, 55%, 94%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7df06d a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6778 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 14.56:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7df06d?

Black. It scores 14.56:1 against #7df06d, versus 1.44:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7df06d accessible on a white background?

#7df06d on white scores 1.44:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1D880E to reach 4.5:1, or #15630A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7df06d?

#E06DF0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9E6DF0 and #F06DBE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7df06d?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C5EDC0 for borders, #549B4B for secondary text, #C06AF3 as an accent and #18740C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BEF06D and #6DF09E stays calm, while #E06DF0 is the loudest partner.

What is #7df06d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(48%, 0%, 55%, 6%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #7df06d warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 59 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ADF06D; nudged cooler, #6BF28C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7df06d?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 11 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7df06d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7df06d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7df06d] or text-[#7df06d], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #7df06d with 50% opacity?

rgba(125, 240, 109, 0.5), or #7df06d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BEF8B6; over black, #3F7837.

Is #7df06d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66FF66, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7df06d mean?

As a green, it reads safe, growing, natural. Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #7df06d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AEF6A4, #7df06d 45%, #18740C). For more colour, a short hue run to #51EDB3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7df06d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7df06d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.