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#86fc8a

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

Token name suggestion: Drift Fern

RGB
134, 252, 138
HSL
122°, 95%, 76%
CMYK
47, 0, 45, 1
Luminance
0.7652

#86fc8a is a light electric green, 122° on the wheel and 63/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.30:1). As text it scores 1.29:1 on white — use #038A08 instead. Nearest name is Pale Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(122 95% 76%)rgb(134 252 138)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #86fc8a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#86fc8a
Hue
122°
green
Saturation
95%
electric
Lightness
76%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7652
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
63/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.30:1
Closest name
Pale Green
ΔE2000 2.4
Chroma
71.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.896
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 14
Web-safe
#99FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue122° of 360°
Saturation95%
Lightness76%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #86fc8a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool63% 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
Red7%
Green91%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#86fc8a
HEX (8-digit)#86fc8aff
RGBrgb(134, 252, 138)
RGBArgba(134, 252, 138, 1)
HSLhsl(122, 95%, 76%)
HSV / HSBhsv(122, 47%, 99%)
HWBhwb(122 53% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(47%, 0%, 45%, 1%)
LABlab(90.1 -55.8 44.4)
LCHlch(90.1 71.3 141.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.896 0.186 144.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(49.23, 76.52, 36.22)
Decimal8846474
Display P3color(display-p3 0.525 0.988 0.541)
Web-safe#99FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #86fc8a;
background-color: #86fc8a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #86fc8a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#86fc8a] bg-[#86fc8a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #86fc8a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.525, green: 0.988, blue: 0.541)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.525, green: 0.988, blue: 0.541, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#86FC8A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF86FC8A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF86FC8A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(138, 252, 134)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(134, 252, 138)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(134, 252, 138)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 134, 252, 138)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5255f, 0.9882f, 0.5412f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{134,252,138}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #86fc8a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #86fc8a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#037C07, #D3EED4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #86fc8a 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: #F1FDF2;
  --brand-100: #E4FCE5;
  --brand-200: #C2FAC3;
  --brand-300: #86fc8a;
  --brand-400: #5BFB60;
  --brand-500: #24FA2B;
  --brand-600: #06EF0E;
  --brand-700: #05C70B;
  --brand-800: #049F09;
  --brand-900: #08730B;
  --brand-950: #054807;
  --brand: #86fc8a;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC1;
  --brand-hover: #63FB68;
  --brand-pressed: #40FA47;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142414;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDF2',
        100: '#E4FCE5',
        200: '#C2FAC3',
        300: '#86fc8a',
        400: '#5BFB60',
        500: '#24FA2B',
        600: '#06EF0E',
        700: '#05C70B',
        800: '#049F09',
        900: '#08730B',
        950: '#054807',
        DEFAULT: '#86fc8a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDF2,
  '100': #E4FCE5,
  '200': #C2FAC3,
  '300': #86fc8a,
  '400': #5BFB60,
  '500': #24FA2B,
  '600': #06EF0E,
  '700': #05C70B,
  '800': #049F09,
  '900': #08730B,
  '950': #054807,
);
$brand-base: #86fc8a;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FCE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2FAC3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#86fc8a", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5BFB60", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#24FA2B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#06EF0E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#05C70B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#049F09", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#08730B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054807", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #86fc8a · 16.30:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.29:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.30:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #86fc8a as text scores 1.29:1 on white and 16.30:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #037C07 at 4.19:1.

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
#038A08 · 4.52:1
AA on white−48% L
#038A08
The quick fox
#036706 · 7.13:1
AAA on white−55% L
#036706
The quick fox
#86fc8a · 16.30:1
AA on blackalready passes
#86fc8a
The quick fox
#86fc8a · 16.30:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#86fc8a

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #04AD0A 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
#86fc8a on white: 1.29:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#86fc8a on black: 16.30:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #86fc8a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #86fc8a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.29:1AaAa
Slate 501.23:1AaAa
Slate 1001.18:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.15:1AaAa
Slate 4001.99:1AaAa
Slate 5003.69:1AaAa
Slate 6005.88:1AaAa
Slate 7008.04:1AaAa
Slate 80011.36:1AaAa
Slate 90013.86:1AaAa
Black16.30:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE981
deuteranopia · #F0DE91
tritanopia · #75F6E1

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. #86fc8a is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FDF2
#E4FCE5
#C2FAC3
#86fc8a
#5BFB60
#24FA2B
#06EF0E
#05C70B
#049F09
#08730B
#054807
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F1FDF2Darkest = 950 · #054807Text 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 0.047 144.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.075 144.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.112 144.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.145 144.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.171 144.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.186 144.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.186 144.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.175 144.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.157 144.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.130 144.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.103 144.5);
}

Colors that work with #86fc8a

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#F4FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDC1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B4D
Captions on the surface
Accent#9F00CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#037C07
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142414
Dark-mode background
Hover#63FB68
One step down in lightness
Pressed#40FA47
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#97FF9B
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 #86fc8a

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 #037C07
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #04AD0A

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
  • Weight24/100
  • 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#FC86F8
Analogous left#BDFC86
Analogous right#86FCC5
Split-complement 1#C586FC
Split-complement 2#FC86BD
Triadic 1#8A86FC
Triadic 2#FC8A86
Tetradic#86BDFC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°122°

#86fc8a sits at 122°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red52.5%
Green98.8%
Blue54.1%
R · 0–255
134
0x86
G · 0–255
252
0xfc
B · 0–255
138
0x8a

CMYK percentages

Cyan46.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow45.2%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 93%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#86fc8a text on a black background

contrast 16.30:1

Card sample

#86fc8a text on a white background

contrast 1.29:1

Card sample

#86fc8a on grey

1.18:1

#86fc8a on its own surface

1.22:1

#86fc8a on its dark surface

12.62:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #86fc8a;
Background color
Panel with #86fc8a background
background-color: #86fc8a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #86fc8a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(134, 252, 138, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(134, 252, 138, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #86fc8a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #86fc8a, #86FCD9);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #86fc8a, #86FCF6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #86fc8a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #86fc8a;
caret-color: #86fc8a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #86fc8a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #86fc8a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#86fc8a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #86fc8a 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(134, 252, 138, 0.5)
rgb(134 252 138 / 50%)
#86fc8a80
hsl(122 95% 76% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #86fc8a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#86fc8a1a#F3FFF3
20%#86fc8a33#E7FEE8
40%#86fc8a66#CFFED0
60%#86fc8a99#B6FDB9
80%#86fc8acc#9EFDA1

Gradients from #86fc8a

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, #C2FDC4, #86fc8a 45%, #037C07);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #86fc8a, #68FBDB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #86fc8a, #FC86F8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E0FEE1 0%, #86fc8a 45%, #037C07 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DEFDB8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A4FDDB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #037C07 0%, transparent 65%), #86fc8a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #86fc8a

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.

#86fc8a 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 16.30:1.

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.

#86fc8a, answered

What color is #86fc8a?

#86fc8a is a light electric green, closest to Pale Green (ΔE2000 2.4). It sits at 122° on the hue wheel with 95% saturation and 76% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #86fc8a?

rgb(134, 252, 138) — 134 red, 252 green and 138 blue out of 255, or 52.5% / 98.8% / 54.1% by channel.

What is #86fc8a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(122, 95%, 76%) and hsv(122, 47%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #86fc8a a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7652 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 16.30:1.

Should I use black or white text on #86fc8a?

Black. It scores 16.30:1 against #86fc8a, versus 1.29:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #86fc8a accessible on a white background?

#86fc8a on white scores 1.29:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #038A08 to reach 4.5:1, or #036706 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #86fc8a?

#FC86F8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C586FC and #FC86BD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #86fc8a?

For interface work: #F4FAF4 as the surface, #C0EDC1 for borders, #4B9B4D for secondary text, #9F00CC as an accent and #037C07 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BDFC86 and #86FCC5 stays calm, while #FC86F8 is the loudest partner.

What is #86fc8a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(47%, 0%, 45%, 1%). 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 #86fc8a warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 63 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ADFC86; nudged cooler, #85FDB5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #86fc8a?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 14 away. That is a visible difference, so define #86fc8a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #86fc8a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#86fc8a] or text-[#86fc8a], 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 #86fc8a with 50% opacity?

rgba(134, 252, 138, 0.5), or #86fc8a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C3FEC5; over black, #437E45.

Is #86fc8a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF99, ΔE2000 2.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #86fc8a 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 #86fc8a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C2FDC4, #86fc8a 45%, #037C07). For more colour, a short hue run to #68FBDB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #86fc8a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #86fc8a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.