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#80c69f

a balanced, soft green · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Atlas Jade

RGB
128, 198, 159
HSL
147°, 38%, 64%
CMYK
35, 0, 20, 22
Luminance
0.4748

#80c69f is a balanced soft green, 147° on the wheel and 74/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.50:1). As text it scores 2.00:1 on white — use #3A825A instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(147 38% 64%)rgb(128 198 159)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #80c69f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#80c69f
Hue
147°
green
Saturation
38%
soft
Lightness
64%
balanced
Brightness
78%
HSV value
Perceived
69%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4748
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
74/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
10.50:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 4.7
Chroma
33.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.769
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 9.6
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue147° of 360°
Saturation38%
Lightness64%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #80c69f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool74% 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
Red10%
Green85%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#80c69f
HEX (8-digit)#80c69fff
RGBrgb(128, 198, 159)
RGBArgba(128, 198, 159, 1)
HSLhsl(147, 38%, 64%)
HSV / HSBhsv(147, 35%, 78%)
HWBhwb(147 50% 22%)
CMYKcmyk(35%, 0%, 20%, 22%)
LABlab(74.5 -30.5 12.7)
LCHlch(74.5 33.0 157.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.769 0.091 158.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(35.35, 47.48, 40.10)
Decimal8439455
Display P3color(display-p3 0.502 0.776 0.624)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #80c69f;
background-color: #80c69f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #80c69f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#80c69f] bg-[#80c69f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #80c69f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.502, green: 0.776, blue: 0.624)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.502, green: 0.776, blue: 0.624, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#80C69F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF80C69F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF80C69F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(159, 198, 128)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(128, 198, 159)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(128, 198, 159)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 128, 198, 159)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5020f, 0.7765f, 0.6235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{128,198,159}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #80c69f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #80c69f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#28583D, #D5ECDF);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #80c69f 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: #F5FAF7;
  --brand-100: #EBF4EF;
  --brand-200: #D3E9DD;
  --brand-300: #B2DCC4;
  --brand-400: #80c69f;
  --brand-500: #64B98A;
  --brand-600: #4CA975;
  --brand-700: #3F8D62;
  --brand-800: #33714E;
  --brand-900: #28533B;
  --brand-950: #193425;
  --brand: #80c69f;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C7E6D4;
  --brand-hover: #67BB8C;
  --brand-pressed: #4FB07A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241B;
    --brand-ink: #D5ECDF;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF7',
        100: '#EBF4EF',
        200: '#D3E9DD',
        300: '#B2DCC4',
        400: '#80c69f',
        500: '#64B98A',
        600: '#4CA975',
        700: '#3F8D62',
        800: '#33714E',
        900: '#28533B',
        950: '#193425',
        DEFAULT: '#80c69f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF7,
  '100': #EBF4EF,
  '200': #D3E9DD,
  '300': #B2DCC4,
  '400': #80c69f,
  '500': #64B98A,
  '600': #4CA975,
  '700': #3F8D62,
  '800': #33714E,
  '900': #28533B,
  '950': #193425,
);
$brand-base: #80c69f;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF4EF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D3E9DD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B2DCC4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#80c69f", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#64B98A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4CA975", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3F8D62", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#33714E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#28533B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#193425", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #80c69f · 10.50:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.00:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.50:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #80c69f as text scores 2.00:1 on white and 10.50:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #28583D 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
#3A825A · 4.65:1
AA on white−27% L
#3A825A
The quick fox
#2C6244 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−36% L
#2C6244
The quick fox
#80c69f · 10.50:1
AA on blackalready passes
#80c69f
The quick fox
#80c69f · 10.50:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#80c69f

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4AA572 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
#80c69f on white: 2.00:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#80c69f on black: 10.50:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #80c69f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #80c69f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.00:1AaAa
Slate 501.91:1AaAa
Slate 1001.83:1AaAa
Slate 2001.62:1AaAa
Slate 3001.35:1AaAa
Slate 4001.28:1AaAa
Slate 5002.38:1AaAa
Slate 6003.79:1AaAa
Slate 7005.18:1AaAa
Slate 8007.31:1AaAa
Slate 9008.92:1AaAa
Black10.50:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C5BC9D
deuteranopia · #B9B4A1
tritanopia · #71C5BB

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. #80c69f 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.

#F5FAF7
#EBF4EF
#D3E9DD
#B2DCC4
#80c69f
#64B98A
#4CA975
#3F8D62
#33714E
#28533B
#193425
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF7Darkest = 950 · #193425Text step on white = 800
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 0.023 158.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.036 158.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.054 158.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.071 158.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.083 158.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.091 158.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.091 158.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.085 158.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.076 158.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.063 158.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.050 158.9);
}

Colors that work with #80c69f

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#F4FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C7E6D4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B6E
Captions on the surface
Accent#913B81
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#28583D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF7F2
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241B
Dark-mode background
Hover#67BB8C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4FB07A
Two steps down
Disabled#D3E3DA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#86D4A9
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 #80c69f

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 #28583D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4AA572

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
  • Weight36/100
  • 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#C680A7
Analogous left#84C680
Analogous right#80C6C2
Split-complement 1#C280C6
Split-complement 2#C68084
Triadic 1#9F80C6
Triadic 2#C69F80
Tetradic#8084C6
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°147°

#80c69f sits at 147°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red50.2%
Green77.6%
Blue62.4%
R · 0–255
128
0x80
G · 0–255
198
0xc6
B · 0–255
159
0x9f

CMYK percentages

Cyan35.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow19.7%
Key (black)22.4%

Total ink coverage is 78%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#80c69f text on a black background

contrast 10.50:1

Card sample

#80c69f text on a white background

contrast 2.00:1

Card sample

#80c69f on grey

1.83:1

#80c69f on its own surface

1.89:1

#80c69f on its dark surface

8.09:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #80c69f;
Background color
Panel with #80c69f background
background-color: #80c69f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #80c69f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(128, 198, 159, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(128, 198, 159, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #80c69f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #80c69f, #80BEC6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #80c69f, #80ADC6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #80c69f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #80c69f;
caret-color: #80c69f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #80c69f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF7F2;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #80c69f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#80c69f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #80c69f 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, 198, 159, 0.5)
rgb(128 198 159 / 50%)
#80c69f80
hsl(147 38% 64% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #80c69f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#80c69f1a#F2F9F5
20%#80c69f33#E6F4EC
40%#80c69f66#CCE8D9
60%#80c69f99#B3DDC5
80%#80c69fcc#99D1B2

Gradients from #80c69f

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, #AAD9BF, #80c69f 45%, #28583D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #80c69f, #6BADBC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #80c69f, #C680A7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BFE2CF 0%, #80c69f 45%, #28583D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #AAD6A3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #95CECF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #28583D 0%, transparent 65%), #80c69f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #80c69f

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.

#80c69f 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 10.50:1.

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.

#80c69f, answered

What color is #80c69f?

#80c69f is a balanced soft green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 4.7). It sits at 147° on the hue wheel with 38% saturation and 64% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #80c69f?

rgb(128, 198, 159) — 128 red, 198 green and 159 blue out of 255, or 50.2% / 77.6% / 62.4% by channel.

What is #80c69f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(147, 38%, 64%) and hsv(147, 35%, 78%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #80c69f a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4748 and perceived brightness is 69%, so black text on it reaches 10.50:1.

Should I use black or white text on #80c69f?

Black. It scores 10.50:1 against #80c69f, versus 2.00:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #80c69f accessible on a white background?

#80c69f on white scores 2.00:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3A825A to reach 4.5:1, or #2C6244 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #80c69f?

#C680A7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C280C6 and #C68084, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #80c69f?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C7E6D4 for borders, #4B9B6E for secondary text, #913B81 as an accent and #28583D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #84C680 and #80C6C2 stays calm, while #C680A7 is the loudest partner.

What is #80c69f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(35%, 0%, 20%, 22%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #80c69f warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 74 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #80C685; nudged cooler, #7EC8BA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #80c69f?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 9.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #80c69f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #80c69f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#80c69f] or text-[#80c69f], 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 #80c69f with 50% opacity?

rgba(128, 198, 159, 0.5), or #80c69f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C0E3CF; over black, #406350.

Is #80c69f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #80c69f 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 #80c69f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AAD9BF, #80c69f 45%, #28583D). For more colour, a short hue run to #6BADBC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #80c69f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #80c69f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.