Skip to content
green · neutral

#7eaf2c

a dark, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Yellow Green

Token name suggestion: Dusk Basil

RGB
126, 175, 44
HSL
82°, 60%, 43%
CMYK
28, 0, 75, 31
Luminance
0.3528

#7eaf2c is a dark vivid green, 82° on the wheel and 44/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.06:1). As text it scores 2.61:1 on white — use #5B7E20 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(82 60% 43%)rgb(126 175 44)Base step 700AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7eaf2c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7eaf2c
Hue
82°
green
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
59%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3528
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
44/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
8.06:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 8.4
Chroma
67.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.695
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 8
Web-safe
#669933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue82° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7eaf2c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool44% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red13%
Green87%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#7eaf2c
HEX (8-digit)#7eaf2cff
RGBrgb(126, 175, 44)
RGBArgba(126, 175, 44, 1)
HSLhsl(82, 60%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(82, 75%, 69%)
HWBhwb(82 17% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(28%, 0%, 75%, 31%)
LABlab(66.0 -35.6 57.9)
LCHlch(66.0 67.9 121.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.695 0.164 128.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(24.39, 35.28, 7.91)
Decimal8302380
Display P3color(display-p3 0.494 0.686 0.173)
Web-safe#669933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7eaf2c;
background-color: #7eaf2c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7eaf2c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7eaf2c] bg-[#7eaf2c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7eaf2c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.494, green: 0.686, blue: 0.173)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.494, green: 0.686, blue: 0.173, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7EAF2C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7EAF2C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7EAF2C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(44, 175, 126)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(126, 175, 44)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(126, 175, 44)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 126, 175, 44)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4941f, 0.6863f, 0.1725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{126,175,44}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7eaf2c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7eaf2c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#49661A, #E4EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7eaf2c 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: #F8FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F2F7E9;
  --brand-200: #E2EFCC;
  --brand-300: #CFE8A5;
  --brand-400: #B8DD79;
  --brand-500: #A0D24C;
  --brand-600: #8DC431;
  --brand-700: #7eaf2c;
  --brand-800: #5E8221;
  --brand-900: #465F1C;
  --brand-950: #2C3B11;
  --brand: #7eaf2c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DCEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #699225;
  --brand-pressed: #55761E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E2414;
    --brand-ink: #E4EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8FBF4',
        100: '#F2F7E9',
        200: '#E2EFCC',
        300: '#CFE8A5',
        400: '#B8DD79',
        500: '#A0D24C',
        600: '#8DC431',
        700: '#7eaf2c',
        800: '#5E8221',
        900: '#465F1C',
        950: '#2C3B11',
        DEFAULT: '#7eaf2c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8FBF4,
  '100': #F2F7E9,
  '200': #E2EFCC,
  '300': #CFE8A5,
  '400': #B8DD79,
  '500': #A0D24C,
  '600': #8DC431,
  '700': #7eaf2c,
  '800': #5E8221,
  '900': #465F1C,
  '950': #2C3B11,
);
$brand-base: #7eaf2c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E2EFCC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CFE8A5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B8DD79", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A0D24C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8DC431", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7eaf2c", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5E8221", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#465F1C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2C3B11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7eaf2c · 8.06:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.61:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.06:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7eaf2c as text scores 2.61:1 on white and 8.06:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #49661A at 2.52:1.

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
#5B7E20 · 4.72:1
AA on white−12% L
#5B7E20
The quick fox
#466118 · 7.04:1
AAA on white−19% L
#466118
The quick fox
#7eaf2c · 8.06:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7eaf2c
The quick fox
#7eaf2c · 8.06:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7eaf2c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #729F28 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
#7eaf2c on white: 2.61:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7eaf2c on black: 8.06:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7eaf2c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7eaf2c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.61:1AaAa
Slate 502.49:1AaAa
Slate 1002.38:1AaAa
Slate 2002.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.76:1AaAa
Slate 4001.02:1AaAa
Slate 5001.83:1AaAa
Slate 6002.91:1AaAa
Slate 7003.97:1AaAa
Slate 8005.61:1AaAa
Slate 9006.85:1AaAa
Black8.06:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B8A210
deuteranopia · #B19F39
tritanopia · #82A796

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. #7eaf2c is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8FBF4
#F2F7E9
#E2EFCC
#CFE8A5
#B8DD79
#A0D24C
#8DC431
#7eaf2c
#5E8221
#465F1C
#2C3B11
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F8FBF4Darkest = 950 · #2C3B11Text 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 0.041 128.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.066 128.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.099 128.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.128 128.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.151 128.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.164 128.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.164 128.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.154 128.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.138 128.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.115 128.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.090 128.3);
}

Colors that work with #7eaf2c

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DCEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7D9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3928B3
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#49661A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#699225
One step down in lightness
Pressed#55761E
Two steps down
Disabled#AAB992
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8DCB24
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
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7eaf2c

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • 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
  • Black 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 #49661A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #729F28

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight57/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityHigh

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#5D2CAF
Analogous left#AF9E2C
Analogous right#3DAF2C
Split-complement 1#2C3DAF
Split-complement 2#9E2CAF
Triadic 1#2C7EAF
Triadic 2#AF2C7E
Tetradic#2CAF9E
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°82°

#7eaf2c sits at 82°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.4%
Green68.6%
Blue17.3%
R · 0–255
126
0x7e
G · 0–255
175
0xaf
B · 0–255
44
0x2c

CMYK percentages

Cyan28.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow74.9%
Key (black)31.4%

Total ink coverage is 134%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7eaf2c text on a black background

contrast 8.06:1

Card sample

#7eaf2c text on a white background

contrast 2.61:1

Card sample

#7eaf2c on grey

2.38:1

#7eaf2c on its own surface

2.48:1

#7eaf2c on its dark surface

6.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7eaf2c;
Background color
Panel with #7eaf2c background
background-color: #7eaf2c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7eaf2c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(126, 175, 44, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(126, 175, 44, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7eaf2c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7eaf2c, #2CAF31);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eaf2c, #2CAF52);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7eaf2c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7eaf2c;
caret-color: #7eaf2c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7eaf2c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7eaf2c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7eaf2c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7eaf2c 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(126, 175, 44, 0.5)
rgb(126 175 44 / 50%)
#7eaf2c80
hsl(82 60% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7eaf2c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7eaf2c1a#F2F7EA
20%#7eaf2c33#E5EFD5
40%#7eaf2c66#CBDFAB
60%#7eaf2c99#B2CF80
80%#7eaf2ccc#98BF56

Gradients from #7eaf2c

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, #9DD147, #7eaf2c 45%, #49661A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7eaf2c, #269634);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eaf2c, #5D2CAF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #AAD760 0%, #7eaf2c 45%, #49661A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #CFB13F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #39C732 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #49661A 0%, transparent 65%), #7eaf2c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7eaf2c

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.

#7eaf2c 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
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 8.06:1.

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.

#7eaf2c, answered

What color is #7eaf2c?

#7eaf2c is a dark vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 8.4). It sits at 82° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #7eaf2c?

rgb(126, 175, 44) — 126 red, 175 green and 44 blue out of 255, or 49.4% / 68.6% / 17.3% by channel.

What is #7eaf2c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(82, 60%, 43%) and hsv(82, 75%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7eaf2c a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3528 and perceived brightness is 59%, so black text on it reaches 8.06:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7eaf2c?

Black. It scores 8.06:1 against #7eaf2c, versus 2.61:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7eaf2c accessible on a white background?

#7eaf2c on white scores 2.61:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5B7E20 to reach 4.5:1, or #466118 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7eaf2c?

#5D2CAF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2C3DAF and #9E2CAF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7eaf2c?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DCEDC0 for borders, #7D9B4B for secondary text, #3928B3 as an accent and #49661A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #AF9E2C and #3DAF2C stays calm, while #5D2CAF is the loudest partner.

What is #7eaf2c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(28%, 0%, 75%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7eaf2c warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 44 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AEAF2C; nudged cooler, #4DB12A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7eaf2c?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7eaf2c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7eaf2c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7eaf2c] or text-[#7eaf2c], 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 #7eaf2c with 50% opacity?

rgba(126, 175, 44, 0.5), or #7eaf2c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BFD796; over black, #3F5816.

Is #7eaf2c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669933, ΔE2000 7.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7eaf2c 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 #7eaf2c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9DD147, #7eaf2c 45%, #49661A). For more colour, a short hue run to #269634 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7eaf2c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7eaf2c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.