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#7eb09d

a balanced, soft green · cool · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Studio Fern

RGB
126, 176, 157
HSL
157°, 24%, 59%
CMYK
28, 0, 11, 31
Luminance
0.3792

#7eb09d is a balanced soft green, 157° on the wheel and 69/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.58:1). As text it scores 2.45:1 on white — use #4E7F6C instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(157 24% 59%)rgb(126 176 157)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7eb09d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7eb09d
Hue
157°
green
Saturation
24%
soft
Lightness
59%
balanced
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
63%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3792
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
69/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
8.58:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.7
Chroma
21.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.716
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 10.2
Web-safe
#669999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue157° of 360°
Saturation24%
Lightness59%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7eb09d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool69% 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
Red12%
Green82%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#7eb09d
HEX (8-digit)#7eb09dff
RGBrgb(126, 176, 157)
RGBArgba(126, 176, 157, 1)
HSLhsl(157, 24%, 59%)
HSV / HSBhsv(157, 28%, 69%)
HWBhwb(157 49% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(28%, 0%, 11%, 31%)
LABlab(68.0 -20.7 4.4)
LCHlch(68.0 21.1 167.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.716 0.060 169.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.21, 37.92, 37.62)
Decimal8302749
Display P3color(display-p3 0.494 0.690 0.616)
Web-safe#669999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7eb09d;
background-color: #7eb09d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7eb09d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7eb09d] bg-[#7eb09d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7eb09d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.494, green: 0.690, blue: 0.616)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.494, green: 0.690, blue: 0.616, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7EB09D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7EB09D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7EB09D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(157, 176, 126)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(126, 176, 157)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(126, 176, 157)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 126, 176, 157)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4941f, 0.6902f, 0.6157f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{126,176,157}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7eb09d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7eb09d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#304F43, #D9E8E2);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7eb09d 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: #F6F9F8;
  --brand-100: #EDF3F0;
  --brand-200: #D7E5E0;
  --brand-300: #B9D4CA;
  --brand-400: #97BFB0;
  --brand-500: #7eb09d;
  --brand-600: #5D9881;
  --brand-700: #4E7E6C;
  --brand-800: #3E6556;
  --brand-900: #304B40;
  --brand-950: #1E2F28;
  --brand: #7eb09d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F9F8;
  --brand-border: #CCE0D9;
  --brand-hover: #68A28C;
  --brand-pressed: #588F7A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #15231E;
    --brand-ink: #D9E8E2;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F9F8',
        100: '#EDF3F0',
        200: '#D7E5E0',
        300: '#B9D4CA',
        400: '#97BFB0',
        500: '#7eb09d',
        600: '#5D9881',
        700: '#4E7E6C',
        800: '#3E6556',
        900: '#304B40',
        950: '#1E2F28',
        DEFAULT: '#7eb09d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F9F8,
  '100': #EDF3F0,
  '200': #D7E5E0,
  '300': #B9D4CA,
  '400': #97BFB0,
  '500': #7eb09d,
  '600': #5D9881,
  '700': #4E7E6C,
  '800': #3E6556,
  '900': #304B40,
  '950': #1E2F28,
);
$brand-base: #7eb09d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F9F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EDF3F0", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D7E5E0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B9D4CA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#97BFB0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7eb09d", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#5D9881", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#4E7E6C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#3E6556", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#304B40", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1E2F28", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7eb09d · 8.58:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.45:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.58:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7eb09d as text scores 2.45:1 on white and 8.58:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #304F43 at 3.69:1.

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
#4E7F6C · 4.59:1
AA on white−19% L
#4E7F6C
The quick fox
#3B5F51 · 7.14:1
AAA on white−29% L
#3B5F51
The quick fox
#7eb09d · 8.58:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7eb09d
The quick fox
#7eb09d · 8.58:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7eb09d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #65A08A 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
#7eb09d on white: 2.45:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7eb09d on black: 8.58:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7eb09d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7eb09d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.45:1AaAa
Slate 502.34:1AaAa
Slate 1002.23:1AaAa
Slate 2001.98:1AaAa
Slate 3001.65:1AaAa
Slate 4001.05:1AaAa
Slate 5001.95:1AaAa
Slate 6003.10:1AaAa
Slate 7004.23:1AaAa
Slate 8005.98:1AaAa
Slate 9007.30:1AaAa
Black8.58:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #ADA99C
deuteranopia · #A4A39E
tritanopia · #72B1AA

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. #7eb09d is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6F9F8
#EDF3F0
#D7E5E0
#B9D4CA
#97BFB0
#7eb09d
#5D9881
#4E7E6C
#3E6556
#304B40
#1E2F28
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F6F9F8Darkest = 950 · #1E2F28Text step on white = 700
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 0.015 169.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 169.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 169.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.047 169.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.055 169.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.060 169.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.060 169.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.056 169.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.050 169.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.042 169.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 169.1);
}

Colors that work with #7eb09d

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#F6F9F8
Tinted page background
Border#CCE0D9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#578E79
Captions on the surface
Accent#B47A9F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#304F43
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EFF5F3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#15231E
Dark-mode background
Hover#68A28C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#588F7A
Two steps down
Disabled#C5DAD2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#81C1A9
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7eb09d

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #304F43
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #65A08A

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight41/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

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#B07E91
Analogous left#7EB084
Analogous right#7EAAB0
Split-complement 1#B07EAA
Split-complement 2#B0847E
Triadic 1#9D7EB0
Triadic 2#B09D7E
Tetradic#847EB0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°157°

#7eb09d sits at 157°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.4%
Green69.0%
Blue61.6%
R · 0–255
126
0x7e
G · 0–255
176
0xb0
B · 0–255
157
0x9d

CMYK percentages

Cyan28.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.8%
Key (black)31.0%

Total ink coverage is 70%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7eb09d text on a black background

contrast 8.58:1

Card sample

#7eb09d text on a white background

contrast 2.45:1

Card sample

#7eb09d on grey

2.23:1

#7eb09d on its own surface

2.31:1

#7eb09d on its dark surface

6.65:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7eb09d;
Background color
Panel with #7eb09d background
background-color: #7eb09d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7eb09d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(126, 176, 157, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(126, 176, 157, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7eb09d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7eb09d, #7EA2B0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eb09d, #7E95B0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7eb09d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7eb09d;
caret-color: #7eb09d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7eb09d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EFF5F3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7eb09d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7eb09d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7eb09d 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, 176, 157, 0.5)
rgb(126 176 157 / 50%)
#7eb09d80
hsl(157 24% 59% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7eb09d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7eb09d1a#F2F7F5
20%#7eb09d33#E5EFEB
40%#7eb09d66#CBDFD8
60%#7eb09d99#B2D0C4
80%#7eb09dcc#98C0B1

Gradients from #7eb09d

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, #A4C7BA, #7eb09d 45%, #304F43);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7eb09d, #6B8FA4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eb09d, #B07E91);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B7D3C8 0%, #7eb09d 45%, #304F43 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F9F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #9EC39F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #91B3BC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #304F43 0%, transparent 65%), #7eb09d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7eb09d

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.

#7eb09d 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 8.58:1.

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.

#7eb09d, answered

What color is #7eb09d?

#7eb09d is a balanced soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.7). It sits at 157° on the hue wheel with 24% saturation and 59% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7eb09d?

rgb(126, 176, 157) — 126 red, 176 green and 157 blue out of 255, or 49.4% / 69% / 61.6% by channel.

What is #7eb09d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(157, 24%, 59%) and hsv(157, 28%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7eb09d a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3792 and perceived brightness is 63%, so black text on it reaches 8.58:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7eb09d?

Black. It scores 8.58:1 against #7eb09d, versus 2.45:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7eb09d accessible on a white background?

#7eb09d on white scores 2.45:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #4E7F6C to reach 4.5:1, or #3B5F51 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7eb09d?

#B07E91 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B07EAA and #B0847E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7eb09d?

For interface work: #F6F9F8 as the surface, #CCE0D9 for borders, #578E79 for secondary text, #B47A9F as an accent and #304F43 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7EB084 and #7EAAB0 stays calm, while #B07E91 is the loudest partner.

What is #7eb09d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(28%, 0%, 11%, 31%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7eb09d warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 69 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7EB08B; nudged cooler, #7CB2B1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7eb09d?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 10.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7eb09d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7eb09d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7eb09d] or text-[#7eb09d], 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 #7eb09d with 50% opacity?

rgba(126, 176, 157, 0.5), or #7eb09d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BFD8CE; over black, #3F584F.

Is #7eb09d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669999, ΔE2000 10.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7eb09d 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #7eb09d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A4C7BA, #7eb09d 45%, #304F43). For more colour, a short hue run to #6B8FA4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7eb09d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7eb09d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.