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#8af780

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Basil

RGB
138, 247, 128
HSL
115°, 88%, 74%
CMYK
44, 0, 48, 3
Luminance
0.7348

#8af780 is a light electric green, 115° on the wheel and 60/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.70:1). As text it scores 1.34:1 on white — use #138909 instead. Nearest name is Pale Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(115 88% 74%)rgb(138 247 128)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8af780 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8af780
Hue
115°
green
Saturation
88%
electric
Lightness
74%
light
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7348
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
60/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.70:1
Closest name
Pale Green
ΔE2000 3.1
Chroma
71.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.884
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 13
Web-safe
#99FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue115° of 360°
Saturation88%
Lightness74%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8af780.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool60% 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#8af780
HEX (8-digit)#8af780ff
RGBrgb(138, 247, 128)
RGBArgba(138, 247, 128, 1)
HSLhsl(115, 88%, 74%)
HSV / HSBhsv(115, 48%, 97%)
HWBhwb(115 50% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(44%, 0%, 48%, 3%)
LABlab(88.7 -54.0 47.4)
LCHlch(88.7 71.9 138.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.884 0.187 142.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(47.64, 73.48, 32.09)
Decimal9107328
Display P3color(display-p3 0.541 0.969 0.502)
Web-safe#99FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8af780;
background-color: #8af780;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8af780;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8af780] bg-[#8af780]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8af780;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.541, green: 0.969, blue: 0.502)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.541, green: 0.969, blue: 0.502, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8AF780</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8AF780)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8AF780)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(128, 247, 138)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(138, 247, 128)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(138, 247, 128)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 138, 247, 128)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5412f, 0.9686f, 0.5020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{138,247,128}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8af780 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8af780 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#117808, #D5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8af780 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: #F3FDF2;
  --brand-100: #E7FAE5;
  --brand-200: #C8F8C4;
  --brand-300: #8af780;
  --brand-400: #6DF561;
  --brand-500: #3CF22C;
  --brand-600: #21E60F;
  --brand-700: #1BC00C;
  --brand-800: #16990A;
  --brand-900: #146F0C;
  --brand-950: #0C4507;
  --brand: #8af780;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #6BF55E;
  --brand-pressed: #4CF33D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #152414;
    --brand-ink: #D5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FDF2',
        100: '#E7FAE5',
        200: '#C8F8C4',
        300: '#8af780',
        400: '#6DF561',
        500: '#3CF22C',
        600: '#21E60F',
        700: '#1BC00C',
        800: '#16990A',
        900: '#146F0C',
        950: '#0C4507',
        DEFAULT: '#8af780',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FDF2,
  '100': #E7FAE5,
  '200': #C8F8C4,
  '300': #8af780,
  '400': #6DF561,
  '500': #3CF22C,
  '600': #21E60F,
  '700': #1BC00C,
  '800': #16990A,
  '900': #146F0C,
  '950': #0C4507,
);
$brand-base: #8af780;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7FAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C8F8C4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8af780", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6DF561", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3CF22C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#21E60F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1BC00C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#16990A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#146F0C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C4507", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8af780 · 15.70:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.34:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.70:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8af780 as text scores 1.34:1 on white and 15.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #117808 at 4.23:1.

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
#138909 · 4.56:1
AA on white−45% L
#138909
The quick fox
#0F6707 · 7.09:1
AAA on white−52% L
#0F6707
The quick fox
#8af780 · 15.70:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8af780
The quick fox
#8af780 · 15.70:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8af780

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #18AA0B 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
#8af780 on white: 1.34:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8af780 on black: 15.70:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8af780 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8af780.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.34:1AaAa
Slate 501.28:1AaAa
Slate 1001.22:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.11:1AaAa
Slate 4001.92:1AaAa
Slate 5003.56:1AaAa
Slate 6005.66:1AaAa
Slate 7007.74:1AaAa
Slate 80010.93:1AaAa
Slate 90013.34:1AaAa
Black15.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FCE576
deuteranopia · #EDDB88
tritanopia · #7EF1DB

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. #8af780 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.

#F3FDF2
#E7FAE5
#C8F8C4
#8af780
#6DF561
#3CF22C
#21E60F
#1BC00C
#16990A
#146F0C
#0C4507
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F3FDF2Darkest = 950 · #0C4507Text 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 0.047 142.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.075 142.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.112 142.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.146 142.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.172 142.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.187 142.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.187 142.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.175 142.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.157 142.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.131 142.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.103 142.1);
}

Colors that work with #8af780

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#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#519B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#8508C4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#117808
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#152414
Dark-mode background
Hover#6BF55E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4CF33D
Two steps down
Disabled#F1F6F1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#97FE8D
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 #8af780

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 #117808
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #18AA0B

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
  • Weight27/100
  • 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#ED80F7
Analogous left#C5F780
Analogous right#80F7B2
Split-complement 1#B280F7
Split-complement 2#F780C5
Triadic 1#808AF7
Triadic 2#F7808A
Tetradic#80C5F7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°115°

#8af780 sits at 115°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red54.1%
Green96.9%
Blue50.2%
R · 0–255
138
0x8a
G · 0–255
247
0xf7
B · 0–255
128
0x80

CMYK percentages

Cyan44.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow48.2%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 95%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8af780 text on a black background

contrast 15.70:1

Card sample

#8af780 text on a white background

contrast 1.34:1

Card sample

#8af780 on grey

1.22:1

#8af780 on its own surface

1.27:1

#8af780 on its dark surface

12.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8af780;
Background color
Panel with #8af780 background
background-color: #8af780;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8af780;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(138, 247, 128, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(138, 247, 128, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8af780;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8af780, #80F7C5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8af780, #80F7E3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8af780;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8af780;
caret-color: #8af780;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8af780;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8af780;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8af780 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8af780 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(138, 247, 128, 0.5)
rgb(138 247 128 / 50%)
#8af78080
hsl(115 88% 74% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8af780 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8af7801a#F3FEF2
20%#8af78033#E8FDE6
40%#8af78066#D0FCCC
60%#8af78099#B9FAB3
80%#8af780cc#A1F999

Gradients from #8af780

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, #BFFBB9, #8af780 45%, #117808);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8af780, #63F5C4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8af780, #ED80F7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D9FCD6 0%, #8af780 45%, #117808 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E1FAB0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #9DF9CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #117808 0%, transparent 65%), #8af780;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8af780

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.

#8af780 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 15.70:1.

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.

#8af780, answered

What color is #8af780?

#8af780 is a light electric green, closest to Pale Green (ΔE2000 3.1). It sits at 115° on the hue wheel with 88% saturation and 74% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #8af780?

rgb(138, 247, 128) — 138 red, 247 green and 128 blue out of 255, or 54.1% / 96.9% / 50.2% by channel.

What is #8af780 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(115, 88%, 74%) and hsv(115, 48%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8af780 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7348 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 15.70:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8af780?

Black. It scores 15.70:1 against #8af780, versus 1.34:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8af780 accessible on a white background?

#8af780 on white scores 1.34:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #138909 to reach 4.5:1, or #0F6707 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8af780?

#ED80F7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B280F7 and #F780C5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8af780?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C3EDC0 for borders, #519B4B for secondary text, #8508C4 as an accent and #117808 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C5F780 and #80F7B2 stays calm, while #ED80F7 is the loudest partner.

What is #8af780 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(44%, 0%, 48%, 3%). 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 #8af780 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 60 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B5F780; nudged cooler, #7FF8A1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8af780?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 13 away. That is a visible difference, so define #8af780 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #8af780 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8af780] or text-[#8af780], 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 #8af780 with 50% opacity?

rgba(138, 247, 128, 0.5), or #8af78080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C5FBC0; over black, #457C40.

Is #8af780 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF99, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8af780 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 #8af780?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #BFFBB9, #8af780 45%, #117808). For more colour, a short hue run to #63F5C4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8af780 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8af780 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.