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#80901f

a dark, vivid yellow · warm · closest name: Olive Drab

Token name suggestion: Slate Citron

RGB
128, 144, 31
HSL
69°, 65%, 34%
CMYK
11, 0, 79, 44
Luminance
0.2463

#80901f is a dark vivid yellow, 69° on the wheel and 32/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.93:1). As text it scores 3.54:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Olive Drab, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(69 65% 34%)rgb(128 144 31)Base step 800AA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #80901f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#80901f
Hue
69°
yellow
Saturation
65%
vivid
Lightness
34%
dark
Brightness
56%
HSV value
Perceived
51%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2463
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
32/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
5.93:1
Closest name
Olive Drab
ΔE2000 5.1
Chroma
57.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.620
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 17.7
Web-safe
#999933
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue69° of 360°
Saturation65%
Lightness34%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #80901f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool32% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red19%
Green81%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#80901f
HEX (8-digit)#80901fff
RGBrgb(128, 144, 31)
RGBArgba(128, 144, 31, 1)
HSLhsl(69, 65%, 34%)
HSV / HSBhsv(68, 78%, 56%)
HWBhwb(69 12% 44%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 0%, 79%, 44%)
LABlab(56.7 -20.5 53.5)
LCHlch(56.7 57.3 110.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.620 0.133 117.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(19.12, 24.63, 5.04)
Decimal8425503
Display P3color(display-p3 0.502 0.565 0.122)
Web-safe#999933

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #80901f;
background-color: #80901f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #80901f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#80901f] bg-[#80901f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #80901f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.502, green: 0.565, blue: 0.122)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.565, blue: 0.122, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#80901F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF80901F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF80901F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(31, 144, 128)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(128, 144, 31)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(128, 144, 31)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 128, 144, 31)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5020f, 0.5647f, 0.1216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{128,144,31}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #80901f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #80901f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5D6917, #EAEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #80901f 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: #FAFBF3;
  --brand-100: #F5F7E8;
  --brand-200: #EBF1CB;
  --brand-300: #E1EBA3;
  --brand-400: #D2E174;
  --brand-500: #C3D746;
  --brand-600: #B3C92B;
  --brand-700: #95A824;
  --brand-800: #80901f;
  --brand-900: #576219;
  --brand-950: #373D10;
  --brand: #80901f;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #E6EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #667319;
  --brand-pressed: #4C5512;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #222414;
    --brand-ink: #EAEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAFBF3',
        100: '#F5F7E8',
        200: '#EBF1CB',
        300: '#E1EBA3',
        400: '#D2E174',
        500: '#C3D746',
        600: '#B3C92B',
        700: '#95A824',
        800: '#80901f',
        900: '#576219',
        950: '#373D10',
        DEFAULT: '#80901f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAFBF3,
  '100': #F5F7E8,
  '200': #EBF1CB,
  '300': #E1EBA3,
  '400': #D2E174,
  '500': #C3D746,
  '600': #B3C92B,
  '700': #95A824,
  '800': #80901f,
  '900': #576219,
  '950': #373D10,
);
$brand-base: #80901f;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAFBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F5F7E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EBF1CB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E1EBA3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#D2E174", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#C3D746", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#B3C92B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#95A824", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#80901f", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#576219", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#373D10", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #80901f · 5.93:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.54:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.93:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #80901f as text scores 3.54:1 on white and 5.93:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #5D6917 at 1.69:1.

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
#6D7B1A · 4.67:1
AA on white−5% L
#6D7B1A
The quick fox
#535E14 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−12% L
#535E14
The quick fox
#80901f · 5.93:1
AA on blackalready passes
#80901f
The quick fox
#8FA123 · 7.29:1
AAA on black+4% L
#8FA123

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #80901F 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
#80901f on white: 3.54:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#80901f on black: 5.93:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #80901f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #80901f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.54:1AaAa
Slate 503.39:1AaAa
Slate 1003.23:1AaAa
Slate 2002.87:1AaAa
Slate 3002.39:1AaAa
Slate 4001.38:1AaAa
Slate 5001.34:1AaAa
Slate 6002.14:1AaAa
Slate 7002.92:1AaAa
Slate 8004.13:1AaAa
Slate 9005.04:1AaAa
Black5.93:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #9A8801
deuteranopia · #98892A
tritanopia · #88887B

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. #80901f is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAFBF3
#F5F7E8
#EBF1CB
#E1EBA3
#D2E174
#C3D746
#B3C92B
#95A824
#80901f
#576219
#373D10
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #FAFBF3Darkest = 950 · #373D10Text 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 0.033 117.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.053 117.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.080 117.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.104 117.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.122 117.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.133 117.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.133 117.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.125 117.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.111 117.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.093 117.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.073 117.7);
}

Colors that work with #80901f

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#FAFAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E6EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#909B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1B2893
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5D6917
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8FAEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#222414
Dark-mode background
Hover#667319
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4C5512
Two steps down
Disabled#A1A877
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#96AB19
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 #80901f

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • 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
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #5D6917
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

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

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

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

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight66/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • 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#2F1F90
Analogous left#90671F
Analogous right#47901F
Split-complement 1#1F4790
Split-complement 2#671F90
Triadic 1#1F8090
Triadic 2#901F80
Tetradic#1F9067
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°69°

#80901f sits at 69°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red50.2%
Green56.5%
Blue12.2%
R · 0–255
128
0x80
G · 0–255
144
0x90
B · 0–255
31
0x1f

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow78.5%
Key (black)43.5%

Total ink coverage is 133%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#80901f text on a black background

contrast 5.93:1

Card sample

#80901f text on a white background

contrast 3.54:1

Card sample

#80901f on grey

3.23:1

#80901f on its own surface

3.38:1

#80901f on its dark surface

4.45:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #80901f;
Background color
Panel with #80901f background
background-color: #80901f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #80901f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(128, 144, 31, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(128, 144, 31, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #80901f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #80901f, #35901F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #80901f, #1F9026);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #80901f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #80901f;
caret-color: #80901f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #80901f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8FAEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #80901f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#80901f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #80901f 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(128, 144, 31, 0.5)
rgb(128 144 31 / 50%)
#80901f80
hsl(69 65% 34% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #80901f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#80901f1a#F2F4E9
20%#80901f33#E6E9D2
40%#80901f66#CCD3A5
60%#80901f99#B3BC79
80%#80901fcc#99A64C

Gradients from #80901f

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, #ADC22A, #80901f 45%, #5D6917);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #80901f, #24771A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #80901f, #2F1F90);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BED437 0%, #80901f 45%, #5D6917 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAFAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #BA7928 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #49A924 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5D6917 0%, transparent 65%), #80901f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #80901f

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.

#80901f in the real world

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

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
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 5.93:1.

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.

#80901f, answered

What color is #80901f?

#80901f is a dark vivid yellow, closest to Olive Drab (ΔE2000 5.1). It sits at 69° on the hue wheel with 65% saturation and 34% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #80901f?

rgb(128, 144, 31) — 128 red, 144 green and 31 blue out of 255, or 50.2% / 56.5% / 12.2% by channel.

What is #80901f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(69, 65%, 34%) and hsv(68, 78%, 56%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #80901f a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2463 and perceived brightness is 51%, so black text on it reaches 5.93:1.

Should I use black or white text on #80901f?

Black. It scores 5.93:1 against #80901f, versus 3.54:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #80901f accessible on a white background?

#80901f on white scores 3.54:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #6D7B1A to reach 4.5:1, or #535E14 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #80901f?

#2F1F90 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #1F4790 and #671F90, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #80901f?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #E6EDC0 for borders, #909B4B for secondary text, #1B2893 as an accent and #5D6917 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #90671F and #47901F stays calm, while #2F1F90 is the loudest partner.

What is #80901f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 0%, 79%, 44%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #80901f warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 32 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #90771F; nudged cooler, #56921D.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #80901f?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 17.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #80901f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #80901f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#80901f] or text-[#80901f], 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 #80901f with 50% opacity?

rgba(128, 144, 31, 0.5), or #80901f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C0C88F; over black, #404810.

Is #80901f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #999933, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #80901f mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #80901f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ADC22A, #80901f 45%, #5D6917). For more colour, a short hue run to #24771A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #80901f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #80901f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.