Skip to content
green · neutral

#8ccc74

a balanced, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: True Fern

RGB
140, 204, 116
HSL
104°, 46%, 63%
CMYK
31, 0, 43, 20
Luminance
0.5002

#8ccc74 is a balanced vivid green, 104° on the wheel and 56/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.00:1). As text it scores 1.91:1 on white — use #468130 instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(104 46% 63%)rgb(140 204 116)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8ccc74 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8ccc74
Hue
104°
green
Saturation
46%
vivid
Lightness
63%
balanced
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
70%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5002
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
56/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.00:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 8.1
Chroma
52.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.781
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 9.2
Web-safe
#99CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue104° of 360°
Saturation46%
Lightness63%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8ccc74.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool56% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red11%
Green86%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#8ccc74
HEX (8-digit)#8ccc74ff
RGBrgb(140, 204, 116)
RGBArgba(140, 204, 116, 1)
HSLhsl(104, 46%, 63%)
HSV / HSBhsv(104, 43%, 80%)
HWBhwb(104 45% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(31%, 0%, 43%, 20%)
LABlab(76.1 -36.6 37.5)
LCHlch(76.1 52.4 134.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.781 0.136 137.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(35.56, 50.02, 24.30)
Decimal9227380
Display P3color(display-p3 0.549 0.800 0.455)
Web-safe#99CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8ccc74;
background-color: #8ccc74;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8ccc74;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8ccc74] bg-[#8ccc74]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8ccc74;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.549, green: 0.800, blue: 0.455)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.549, green: 0.800, blue: 0.455, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8CCC74</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8CCC74)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8CCC74)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(116, 204, 140)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(140, 204, 116)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(140, 204, 116)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 140, 204, 116)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5490f, 0.8000f, 0.4549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{140,204,116}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8ccc74 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8ccc74 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#325D22, #DAEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8ccc74 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: #F6FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EDF5EA;
  --brand-200: #D8EBD0;
  --brand-300: #BBE1AD;
  --brand-400: #8ccc74;
  --brand-500: #77C35B;
  --brand-600: #61B342;
  --brand-700: #519537;
  --brand-800: #40772C;
  --brand-900: #315723;
  --brand-950: #1F3716;
  --brand: #8ccc74;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CEE9C3;
  --brand-hover: #76C25A;
  --brand-pressed: #62B643;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #182414;
    --brand-ink: #DAEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6FAF5',
        100: '#EDF5EA',
        200: '#D8EBD0',
        300: '#BBE1AD',
        400: '#8ccc74',
        500: '#77C35B',
        600: '#61B342',
        700: '#519537',
        800: '#40772C',
        900: '#315723',
        950: '#1F3716',
        DEFAULT: '#8ccc74',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6FAF5,
  '100': #EDF5EA,
  '200': #D8EBD0,
  '300': #BBE1AD,
  '400': #8ccc74,
  '500': #77C35B,
  '600': #61B342,
  '700': #519537,
  '800': #40772C,
  '900': #315723,
  '950': #1F3716,
);
$brand-base: #8ccc74;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EDF5EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D8EBD0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BBE1AD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8ccc74", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#77C35B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#61B342", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#519537", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#40772C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#315723", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1F3716", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8ccc74 · 11.00:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.91:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.00:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8ccc74 as text scores 1.91:1 on white and 11.00:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #325D22 at 4.04:1.

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
#468130 · 4.73:1
AA on white−28% L
#468130
The quick fox
#346023 · 7.39:1
AAA on white−37% L
#346023
The quick fox
#8ccc74 · 11.00:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8ccc74
The quick fox
#8ccc74 · 11.00:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8ccc74

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #58A33C 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
#8ccc74 on white: 1.91:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8ccc74 on black: 11.00:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8ccc74 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8ccc74.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.91:1AaAa
Slate 501.82:1AaAa
Slate 1001.74:1AaAa
Slate 2001.55:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4001.34:1AaAa
Slate 5002.49:1AaAa
Slate 6003.97:1AaAa
Slate 7005.43:1AaAa
Slate 8007.67:1AaAa
Slate 9009.36:1AaAa
Black11.00:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D1BF6D
deuteranopia · #C8B979
tritanopia · #89C6B7

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. #8ccc74 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.

#F6FAF5
#EDF5EA
#D8EBD0
#BBE1AD
#8ccc74
#77C35B
#61B342
#519537
#40772C
#315723
#1F3716
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F6FAF5Darkest = 950 · #1F3716Text 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 0.034 137.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 137.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.081 137.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.106 137.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.125 137.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.136 137.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.136 137.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.128 137.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.114 137.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.095 137.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 137.6);
}

Colors that work with #8ccc74

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#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#CEE9C3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#619B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9E70D0
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#325D22
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0F8EC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#182414
Dark-mode background
Hover#76C25A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#62B643
Two steps down
Disabled#D4E1CF
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#94DA7A
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 #8ccc74

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #325D22
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #58A33C

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight37/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#B474CC
Analogous left#B8CC74
Analogous right#74CC88
Split-complement 1#8874CC
Split-complement 2#CC74B8
Triadic 1#748CCC
Triadic 2#CC748C
Tetradic#74B8CC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°104°

#8ccc74 sits at 104°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red54.9%
Green80.0%
Blue45.5%
R · 0–255
140
0x8c
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
116
0x74

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow43.1%
Key (black)20.0%

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

Color previews

#8ccc74 text on a black background

contrast 11.00:1

Card sample

#8ccc74 text on a white background

contrast 1.91:1

Card sample

#8ccc74 on grey

1.74:1

#8ccc74 on its own surface

1.81:1

#8ccc74 on its dark surface

8.46:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8ccc74;
Background color
Panel with #8ccc74 background
background-color: #8ccc74;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8ccc74;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(140, 204, 116, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(140, 204, 116, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8ccc74;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8ccc74, #74CC96);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ccc74, #74CCAD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8ccc74;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8ccc74;
caret-color: #8ccc74;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8ccc74;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0F8EC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8ccc74;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8ccc74 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8ccc74 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, 116, 0.5)
rgb(140 204 116 / 50%)
#8ccc7480
hsl(104 46% 63% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8ccc74 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8ccc741a#F4FAF1
20%#8ccc7433#E8F5E3
40%#8ccc7466#D1EBC7
60%#8ccc7499#BAE0AC
80%#8ccc74cc#A3D690

Gradients from #8ccc74

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, #B1DCA1, #8ccc74 45%, #325D22);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8ccc74, #5DC48E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8ccc74, #B474CC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C3E5B7 0%, #8ccc74 45%, #325D22 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D0DA99 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8AD4A1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #325D22 0%, transparent 65%), #8ccc74;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8ccc74

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.

#8ccc74 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 11.00:1.

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.

#8ccc74, answered

What color is #8ccc74?

#8ccc74 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 8.1). It sits at 104° on the hue wheel with 46% saturation and 63% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #8ccc74?

rgb(140, 204, 116) — 140 red, 204 green and 116 blue out of 255, or 54.9% / 80% / 45.5% by channel.

What is #8ccc74 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(104, 46%, 63%) and hsv(104, 43%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8ccc74 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5002 and perceived brightness is 70%, so black text on it reaches 11.00:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8ccc74?

Black. It scores 11.00:1 against #8ccc74, versus 1.91:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8ccc74 accessible on a white background?

#8ccc74 on white scores 1.91:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #468130 to reach 4.5:1, or #346023 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8ccc74?

#B474CC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #8874CC and #CC74B8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8ccc74?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CEE9C3 for borders, #619B4B for secondary text, #9E70D0 as an accent and #325D22 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B8CC74 and #74CC88 stays calm, while #B474CC is the loudest partner.

What is #8ccc74 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(31%, 0%, 43%, 20%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #8ccc74 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 56 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ACCC74; nudged cooler, #72CE7B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8ccc74?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 9.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #8ccc74 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #8ccc74 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8ccc74] or text-[#8ccc74], 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 #8ccc74 with 50% opacity?

rgba(140, 204, 116, 0.5), or #8ccc7480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C6E6BA; over black, #46663A.

Is #8ccc74 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC66, ΔE2000 3.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8ccc74 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 #8ccc74?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B1DCA1, #8ccc74 45%, #325D22). For more colour, a short hue run to #5DC48E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8ccc74 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8ccc74 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.