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#8cdf7a

a light, vivid green · cool · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: Drift Basil

RGB
140, 223, 122
HSL
109°, 61%, 68%
CMYK
37, 0, 45, 13
Luminance
0.5976

#8cdf7a is a light vivid green, 109° on the wheel and 58/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.95:1). As text it scores 1.62:1 on white — use #328620 instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(109 61% 68%)rgb(140 223 122)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8cdf7a is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8cdf7a
Hue
109°
green
Saturation
61%
vivid
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5976
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
58/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.95:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
60.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.827
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 10.2
Web-safe
#99CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue109° of 360°
Saturation61%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8cdf7a.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool58% 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
Red9%
Green88%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#8cdf7a
HEX (8-digit)#8cdf7aff
RGBrgb(140, 223, 122)
RGBArgba(140, 223, 122, 1)
HSLhsl(109, 61%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(109, 45%, 87%)
HWBhwb(109 48% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(37%, 0%, 45%, 13%)
LABlab(81.7 -44.2 41.6)
LCHlch(81.7 60.7 136.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.827 0.158 140.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(40.71, 59.75, 27.80)
Decimal9232250
Display P3color(display-p3 0.549 0.875 0.478)
Web-safe#99CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8cdf7a;
background-color: #8cdf7a;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8cdf7a;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8cdf7a] bg-[#8cdf7a]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8cdf7a;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.549, green: 0.875, blue: 0.478)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.549, green: 0.875, blue: 0.478, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8CDF7A</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8CDF7A)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8CDF7A)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(122, 223, 140)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(140, 223, 122)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(140, 223, 122)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 140, 223, 122)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5490f, 0.8745f, 0.4784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{140,223,122}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8cdf7a 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8cdf7a 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#276719, #D8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8cdf7a 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: #F5FBF4;
  --brand-100: #EBF7E8;
  --brand-200: #D2F0CC;
  --brand-300: #B1E9A5;
  --brand-400: #8cdf7a;
  --brand-500: #63D34A;
  --brand-600: #4AC52F;
  --brand-700: #3EA428;
  --brand-800: #318420;
  --brand-900: #27601B;
  --brand-950: #183C11;
  --brand: #8cdf7a;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C8EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #73D85D;
  --brand-pressed: #5AD140;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #172414;
    --brand-ink: #D8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FBF4',
        100: '#EBF7E8',
        200: '#D2F0CC',
        300: '#B1E9A5',
        400: '#8cdf7a',
        500: '#63D34A',
        600: '#4AC52F',
        700: '#3EA428',
        800: '#318420',
        900: '#27601B',
        950: '#183C11',
        DEFAULT: '#8cdf7a',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FBF4,
  '100': #EBF7E8,
  '200': #D2F0CC,
  '300': #B1E9A5,
  '400': #8cdf7a,
  '500': #63D34A,
  '600': #4AC52F,
  '700': #3EA428,
  '800': #318420,
  '900': #27601B,
  '950': #183C11,
);
$brand-base: #8cdf7a;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF7E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2F0CC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B1E9A5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8cdf7a", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#63D34A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4AC52F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3EA428", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#318420", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#27601B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#183C11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8cdf7a · 12.95:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.62:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.95:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8cdf7a as text scores 1.62:1 on white and 12.95:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #276719 at 4.26:1.

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
#328620 · 4.60:1
AA on white−35% L
#328620
The quick fox
#266518 · 7.10:1
AAA on white−43% L
#266518
The quick fox
#8cdf7a · 12.95:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8cdf7a
The quick fox
#8cdf7a · 12.95:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8cdf7a

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3FA728 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
#8cdf7a on white: 1.62:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8cdf7a on black: 12.95:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8cdf7a as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8cdf7a.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.62:1AaAa
Slate 501.55:1AaAa
Slate 1001.48:1AaAa
Slate 2001.32:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.58:1AaAa
Slate 5002.93:1AaAa
Slate 6004.67:1AaAa
Slate 7006.39:1AaAa
Slate 8009.02:1AaAa
Slate 90011.01:1AaAa
Black12.95:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E4D072
deuteranopia · #D8C880
tritanopia · #86D9C7

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. #8cdf7a 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.

#F5FBF4
#EBF7E8
#D2F0CC
#B1E9A5
#8cdf7a
#63D34A
#4AC52F
#3EA428
#318420
#27601B
#183C11
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F5FBF4Darkest = 950 · #183C11Text 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 0.039 140.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.063 140.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.095 140.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.123 140.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.145 140.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.158 140.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.158 140.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.148 140.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.132 140.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.110 140.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.087 140.1);
}

Colors that work with #8cdf7a

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#C8EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#599B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6F24A8
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#276719
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDFAEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#172414
Dark-mode background
Hover#73D85D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5AD140
Two steps down
Disabled#E1EADF
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#95EA83
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 #8cdf7a

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 #276719
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3FA728

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight32/100
  • 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#CD7ADF
Analogous left#BEDF7A
Analogous right#7ADF9A
Split-complement 1#9A7ADF
Split-complement 2#DF7ABE
Triadic 1#7A8CDF
Triadic 2#DF7A8C
Tetradic#7ABEDF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°109°

#8cdf7a sits at 109°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red54.9%
Green87.5%
Blue47.8%
R · 0–255
140
0x8c
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
122
0x7a

CMYK percentages

Cyan37.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow45.3%
Key (black)12.5%

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

Color previews

#8cdf7a text on a black background

contrast 12.95:1

Card sample

#8cdf7a text on a white background

contrast 1.62:1

Card sample

#8cdf7a on grey

1.48:1

#8cdf7a on its own surface

1.53:1

#8cdf7a on its dark surface

9.97:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8cdf7a;
Background color
Panel with #8cdf7a background
background-color: #8cdf7a;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8cdf7a;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(140, 223, 122, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(140, 223, 122, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8cdf7a;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8cdf7a, #7ADFAB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8cdf7a, #7ADFC4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8cdf7a;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8cdf7a;
caret-color: #8cdf7a;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8cdf7a;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDFAEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8cdf7a;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8cdf7a 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8cdf7a 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, 223, 122, 0.5)
rgb(140 223 122 / 50%)
#8cdf7a80
hsl(109 61% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8cdf7a 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8cdf7a1a#F4FCF2
20%#8cdf7a33#E8F9E4
40%#8cdf7a66#D1F2CA
60%#8cdf7a99#BAECAF
80%#8cdf7acc#A3E595

Gradients from #8cdf7a

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, #B6EBAB, #8cdf7a 45%, #276719);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8cdf7a, #61D9A6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8cdf7a, #CD7ADF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CCF1C4 0%, #8cdf7a 45%, #276719 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%, #D8E9A3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #92E5B4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #276719 0%, transparent 65%), #8cdf7a;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8cdf7a

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.

#8cdf7a 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

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 12.95:1.

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.

#8cdf7a, answered

What color is #8cdf7a?

#8cdf7a is a light vivid green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 109° on the hue wheel with 61% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #8cdf7a?

rgb(140, 223, 122) — 140 red, 223 green and 122 blue out of 255, or 54.9% / 87.5% / 47.8% by channel.

What is #8cdf7a in HSL and HSV?

hsl(109, 61%, 68%) and hsv(109, 45%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8cdf7a a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5976 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 12.95:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8cdf7a?

Black. It scores 12.95:1 against #8cdf7a, versus 1.62:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8cdf7a accessible on a white background?

#8cdf7a on white scores 1.62:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #328620 to reach 4.5:1, or #266518 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8cdf7a?

#CD7ADF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9A7ADF and #DF7ABE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8cdf7a?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C8EDC0 for borders, #599B4B for secondary text, #6F24A8 as an accent and #276719 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BEDF7A and #7ADF9A stays calm, while #CD7ADF is the loudest partner.

What is #8cdf7a in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(37%, 0%, 45%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #8cdf7a warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 58 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B1DF7A; nudged cooler, #78E18C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8cdf7a?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 10.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #8cdf7a as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #8cdf7a in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8cdf7a] or text-[#8cdf7a], 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 #8cdf7a with 50% opacity?

rgba(140, 223, 122, 0.5), or #8cdf7a80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C6EFBD; over black, #46703D.

Is #8cdf7a a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC66, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8cdf7a 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 #8cdf7a?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B6EBAB, #8cdf7a 45%, #276719). For more colour, a short hue run to #61D9A6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8cdf7a in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8cdf7a at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.