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#8ccc0d

a dark, electric green · warm · closest name: Yellow Green

Token name suggestion: Shadow Fern

RGB
140, 204, 13
HSL
80°, 88%, 43%
CMYK
31, 0, 94, 20
Luminance
0.4879

#8ccc0d is a dark electric green, 80° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.76:1). As text it scores 1.95:1 on white — use #577F08 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 88% 43%)rgb(140 204 13)Base step 700AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8ccc0d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8ccc0d
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
88%
electric
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
68%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4879
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
10.76:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 2.2
Chroma
85.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.772
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 1.4
Web-safe
#99CC00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation88%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8ccc0d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool42% 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
Red11%
Green89%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#8ccc0d
HEX (8-digit)#8ccc0dff
RGBrgb(140, 204, 13)
RGBArgba(140, 204, 13, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 88%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 94%, 80%)
HWBhwb(80 5% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(31%, 0%, 94%, 20%)
LABlab(75.3 -44.0 73.4)
LCHlch(75.3 85.6 121.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.772 0.202 128.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(32.48, 48.79, 8.09)
Decimal9227277
Display P3color(display-p3 0.549 0.800 0.051)
Web-safe#99CC00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8ccc0d;
background-color: #8ccc0d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8ccc0d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8ccc0d] bg-[#8ccc0d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8ccc0d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.549, green: 0.800, blue: 0.051)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.549, green: 0.800, blue: 0.051, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8CCC0D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8CCC0D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8CCC0D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(13, 204, 140)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(140, 204, 13)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(140, 204, 13)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 140, 204, 13)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5490f, 0.8000f, 0.0510f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{140,204,13}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8ccc0d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8ccc0d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#527808, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8ccc0d 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: #F9FDF2;
  --brand-100: #F3FAE5;
  --brand-200: #E6F8C4;
  --brand-300: #D7F896;
  --brand-400: #C3F561;
  --brand-500: #AFF22C;
  --brand-600: #9EE60F;
  --brand-700: #8ccc0d;
  --brand-800: #69990A;
  --brand-900: #4E6F0C;
  --brand-950: #304507;
  --brand: #8ccc0d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #75AA0B;
  --brand-pressed: #5E8909;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FDF2',
        100: '#F3FAE5',
        200: '#E6F8C4',
        300: '#D7F896',
        400: '#C3F561',
        500: '#AFF22C',
        600: '#9EE60F',
        700: '#8ccc0d',
        800: '#69990A',
        900: '#4E6F0C',
        950: '#304507',
        DEFAULT: '#8ccc0d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FDF2,
  '100': #F3FAE5,
  '200': #E6F8C4,
  '300': #D7F896,
  '400': #C3F561,
  '500': #AFF22C,
  '600': #9EE60F,
  '700': #8ccc0d,
  '800': #69990A,
  '900': #4E6F0C,
  '950': #304507,
);
$brand-base: #8ccc0d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3FAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6F8C4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D7F896", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C3F561", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AFF22C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9EE60F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8ccc0d", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#69990A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4E6F0C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#304507", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8ccc0d · 10.76:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.95:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.76:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8ccc0d as text scores 1.95:1 on white and 10.76:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #527808 at 2.66:1.

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
#577F08 · 4.72:1
AA on white−16% L
#577F08
The quick fox
#436206 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−22% L
#436206
The quick fox
#8ccc0d · 10.76:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8ccc0d
The quick fox
#8ccc0d · 10.76:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8ccc0d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6EA10A 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
#8ccc0d on white: 1.95:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8ccc0d on black: 10.76:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8ccc0d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8ccc0d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.95:1AaAa
Slate 501.87:1AaAa
Slate 1001.78:1AaAa
Slate 2001.58:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4001.31:1AaAa
Slate 5002.44:1AaAa
Slate 6003.88:1AaAa
Slate 7005.30:1AaAa
Slate 8007.49:1AaAa
Slate 9009.15:1AaAa
Black10.76:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D6BC00
deuteranopia · #CEB82D
tritanopia · #91C2AD

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. #8ccc0d is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9FDF2
#F3FAE5
#E6F8C4
#D7F896
#C3F561
#AFF22C
#9EE60F
#8ccc0d
#69990A
#4E6F0C
#304507
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9FDF2Darkest = 950 · #304507Text 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 0.051 128.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.081 128.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.121 128.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.158 128.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.186 128.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.202 128.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.202 128.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.190 128.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.170 128.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.142 128.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.111 128.9);
}

Colors that work with #8ccc0d

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DEEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#809B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1A09D0
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#527808
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#75AA0B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5E8909
Two steps down
Disabled#ABB891
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9DEB02
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 #8ccc0d

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
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • 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
  • Black 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 #527808
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6EA10A

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 low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight58/100
  • 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#4D0DCC
Analogous left#CCAC0D
Analogous right#2CCC0D
Split-complement 1#0D2CCC
Split-complement 2#AC0DCC
Triadic 1#0D8CCC
Triadic 2#CC0D8C
Tetradic#0DCCAC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#8ccc0d sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red54.9%
Green80.0%
Blue5.1%
R · 0–255
140
0x8c
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
13
0x0d

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow93.6%
Key (black)20.0%

Total ink coverage is 145%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8ccc0d text on a black background

contrast 10.76:1

Card sample

#8ccc0d text on a white background

contrast 1.95:1

Card sample

#8ccc0d on grey

1.78:1

#8ccc0d on its own surface

1.86:1

#8ccc0d on its dark surface

8.15:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8ccc0d;
Background color
Panel with #8ccc0d background
background-color: #8ccc0d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8ccc0d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(140, 204, 13, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(140, 204, 13, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8ccc0d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8ccc0d, #0DCC0D);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ccc0d, #0DCC3D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8ccc0d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8ccc0d;
caret-color: #8ccc0d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8ccc0d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8ccc0d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8ccc0d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8ccc0d 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(140, 204, 13, 0.5)
rgb(140 204 13 / 50%)
#8ccc0d80
hsl(80 88% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8ccc0d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8ccc0d1a#F4FAE7
20%#8ccc0d33#E8F5CF
40%#8ccc0d66#D1EB9E
60%#8ccc0d99#BAE06E
80%#8ccc0dcc#A3D63D

Gradients from #8ccc0d

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, #ADF125, #8ccc0d 45%, #527808);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8ccc0d, #0BAF19);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ccc0d, #4D0DCC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B8F342 0%, #8ccc0d 45%, #527808 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F0BC1B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #21E90F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #527808 0%, transparent 65%), #8ccc0d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8ccc0d

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.

#8ccc0d 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

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 10.76:1.

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.

#8ccc0d, answered

What color is #8ccc0d?

#8ccc0d is a dark electric green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 2.2). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 88% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #8ccc0d?

rgb(140, 204, 13) — 140 red, 204 green and 13 blue out of 255, or 54.9% / 80% / 5.1% by channel.

What is #8ccc0d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 88%, 43%) and hsv(80, 94%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8ccc0d a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4879 and perceived brightness is 68%, so black text on it reaches 10.76:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8ccc0d?

Black. It scores 10.76:1 against #8ccc0d, versus 1.95:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8ccc0d accessible on a white background?

#8ccc0d on white scores 1.95:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #577F08 to reach 4.5:1, or #436206 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8ccc0d?

#4D0DCC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #0D2CCC and #AC0DCC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8ccc0d?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #809B4B for secondary text, #1A09D0 as an accent and #527808 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CCAC0D and #2CCC0D stays calm, while #4D0DCC is the loudest partner.

What is #8ccc0d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(31%, 0%, 94%, 20%). 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 #8ccc0d warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 42 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CCC60D; nudged cooler, #45CE0B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8ccc0d?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 1.4 away. That is close enough to swap in without anyone noticing.

How do I use #8ccc0d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8ccc0d] or text-[#8ccc0d], 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 #8ccc0d with 50% opacity?

rgba(140, 204, 13, 0.5), or #8ccc0d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C6E686; over black, #466607.

Is #8ccc0d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC00, ΔE2000 2.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8ccc0d 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 #8ccc0d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ADF125, #8ccc0d 45%, #527808). For more colour, a short hue run to #0BAF19 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8ccc0d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8ccc0d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.