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#8dc813

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

Token name suggestion: Slate Fern

RGB
141, 200, 19
HSL
80°, 83%, 43%
CMYK
30, 0, 91, 22
Luminance
0.4702

#8dc813 is a dark electric green, 80° on the wheel and 41/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.40:1). As text it scores 2.02:1 on white — use #5C820C instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 83% 43%)rgb(141 200 19)Base step 700AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8dc813 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8dc813
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
83%
electric
Lightness
43%
dark
Brightness
78%
HSV value
Perceived
67%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4702
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
41/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
10.40:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 2.2
Chroma
83.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.763
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 1.9
Web-safe
#99CC00
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation83%
Lightness43%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8dc813.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool41% 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
Red12%
Green88%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#8dc813
HEX (8-digit)#8dc813ff
RGBrgb(141, 200, 19)
RGBArgba(141, 200, 19, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 83%, 43%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 91%, 78%)
HWBhwb(80 7% 22%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 0%, 91%, 22%)
LABlab(74.2 -41.9 71.7)
LCHlch(74.2 83.0 120.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.763 0.196 128.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(31.76, 47.02, 8.02)
Decimal9291795
Display P3color(display-p3 0.553 0.784 0.075)
Web-safe#99CC00

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8dc813;
background-color: #8dc813;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8dc813;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8dc813] bg-[#8dc813]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8dc813;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.553, green: 0.784, blue: 0.075)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.553, green: 0.784, blue: 0.075, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8DC813</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8DC813)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8DC813)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(19, 200, 141)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(141, 200, 19)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(141, 200, 19)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 141, 200, 19)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5529f, 0.7843f, 0.0745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{141,200,19}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8dc813 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8dc813 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#52740B, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8dc813 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: #F9FCF2;
  --brand-100: #F3FAE6;
  --brand-200: #E6F6C6;
  --brand-300: #D7F599;
  --brand-400: #C3F065;
  --brand-500: #AFEB32;
  --brand-600: #9DE015;
  --brand-700: #8dc813;
  --brand-800: #69950E;
  --brand-900: #4D6C0F;
  --brand-950: #304309;
  --brand: #8dc813;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #76A710;
  --brand-pressed: #5F870D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FCF2',
        100: '#F3FAE6',
        200: '#E6F6C6',
        300: '#D7F599',
        400: '#C3F065',
        500: '#AFEB32',
        600: '#9DE015',
        700: '#8dc813',
        800: '#69950E',
        900: '#4D6C0F',
        950: '#304309',
        DEFAULT: '#8dc813',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FCF2,
  '100': #F3FAE6,
  '200': #E6F6C6,
  '300': #D7F599,
  '400': #C3F065,
  '500': #AFEB32,
  '600': #9DE015,
  '700': #8dc813,
  '800': #69950E,
  '900': #4D6C0F,
  '950': #304309,
);
$brand-base: #8dc813;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FCF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3FAE6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6F6C6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D7F599", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C3F065", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#AFEB32", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9DE015", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8dc813", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#69950E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4D6C0F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#304309", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8dc813 · 10.40:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.02:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.40:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8dc813 as text scores 2.02:1 on white and 10.40:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #52740B at 2.69:1.

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
#5C820C · 4.51:1
AA on white−15% L
#5C820C
The quick fox
#456109 · 7.08:1
AAA on white−22% L
#456109
The quick fox
#8dc813 · 10.40:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8dc813
The quick fox
#8dc813 · 10.40:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8dc813

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #72A30F 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
#8dc813 on white: 2.02:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8dc813 on black: 10.40:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8dc813 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8dc813.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.02:1AaAa
Slate 501.93:1AaAa
Slate 1001.84:1AaAa
Slate 2001.64:1AaAa
Slate 3001.36:1AaAa
Slate 4001.27:1AaAa
Slate 5002.36:1AaAa
Slate 6003.75:1AaAa
Slate 7005.13:1AaAa
Slate 8007.25:1AaAa
Slate 9008.84:1AaAa
Black10.40:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D2B900
deuteranopia · #CAB52F
tritanopia · #92BEAA

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. #8dc813 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.

#F9FCF2
#F3FAE6
#E6F6C6
#D7F599
#C3F065
#AFEB32
#9DE015
#8dc813
#69950E
#4D6C0F
#304309
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F9FCF2Darkest = 950 · #304309Text 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 0.049 128.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.078 128.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.118 128.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.153 128.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.180 128.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.196 128.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.196 128.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.184 128.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.165 128.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.137 128.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.108 128.1);
}

Colors that work with #8dc813

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#819B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1D0FCC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#52740B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FDE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#76A710
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5F870D
Two steps down
Disabled#ACB992
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9EE609
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 #8dc813

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 #52740B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #72A30F

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
  • Weight57/100
  • 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#4E13C8
Analogous left#C8A813
Analogous right#32C813
Split-complement 1#1332C8
Split-complement 2#A813C8
Triadic 1#138DC8
Triadic 2#C8138D
Tetradic#13C8A8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#8dc813 sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red55.3%
Green78.4%
Blue7.5%
R · 0–255
141
0x8d
G · 0–255
200
0xc8
B · 0–255
19
0x13

CMYK percentages

Cyan29.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow90.5%
Key (black)21.6%

Total ink coverage is 142%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8dc813 text on a black background

contrast 10.40:1

Card sample

#8dc813 text on a white background

contrast 2.02:1

Card sample

#8dc813 on grey

1.84:1

#8dc813 on its own surface

1.92:1

#8dc813 on its dark surface

7.88:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8dc813;
Background color
Panel with #8dc813 background
background-color: #8dc813;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8dc813;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(141, 200, 19, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(141, 200, 19, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8dc813;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8dc813, #14C813);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8dc813, #13C83F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8dc813;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8dc813;
caret-color: #8dc813;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8dc813;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FDE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8dc813;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8dc813 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8dc813 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(141, 200, 19, 0.5)
rgb(141 200 19 / 50%)
#8dc81380
hsl(80 83% 43% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8dc813 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8dc8131a#F4FAE7
20%#8dc81333#E8F4D0
40%#8dc81366#D1E9A1
60%#8dc81399#BBDE71
80%#8dc813cc#A4D342

Gradients from #8dc813

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, #ADEB2D, #8dc813 45%, #52740B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8dc813, #10AC1C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8dc813, #4E13C8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B8EE49 0%, #8dc813 45%, #52740B 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%, #EAB724 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #28E416 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #52740B 0%, transparent 65%), #8dc813;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8dc813

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.

#8dc813 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 10.40:1.

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.

#8dc813, answered

What color is #8dc813?

#8dc813 is a dark electric green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 2.2). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 83% saturation and 43% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #8dc813?

rgb(141, 200, 19) — 141 red, 200 green and 19 blue out of 255, or 55.3% / 78.4% / 7.5% by channel.

What is #8dc813 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 83%, 43%) and hsv(80, 91%, 78%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8dc813 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4702 and perceived brightness is 67%, so black text on it reaches 10.40:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8dc813?

Black. It scores 10.40:1 against #8dc813, versus 2.02:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8dc813 accessible on a white background?

#8dc813 on white scores 2.02:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5C820C to reach 4.5:1, or #456109 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8dc813?

#4E13C8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #1332C8 and #A813C8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8dc813?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #819B4B for secondary text, #1D0FCC as an accent and #52740B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C8A813 and #32C813 stays calm, while #4E13C8 is the loudest partner.

What is #8dc813 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 0%, 91%, 22%). 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 #8dc813 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 41 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C8C113; nudged cooler, #4ACA11.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8dc813?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 1.9 away. That is close enough to swap in without anyone noticing.

How do I use #8dc813 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8dc813] or text-[#8dc813], 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 #8dc813 with 50% opacity?

rgba(141, 200, 19, 0.5), or #8dc81380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C6E489; over black, #47640A.

Is #8dc813 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 #8dc813 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 #8dc813?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ADEB2D, #8dc813 45%, #52740B). For more colour, a short hue run to #10AC1C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8dc813 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8dc813 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.