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#8bbc63

a balanced, soft green · neutral · closest name: Yellow Green

Token name suggestion: Atlas Fern

RGB
139, 188, 99
HSL
93°, 40%, 56%
CMYK
26, 0, 47, 26
Luminance
0.4236

#8bbc63 is a balanced soft green, 93° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.47:1). As text it scores 2.22:1 on white — use #598138 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(93 40% 56%)rgb(139 188 99)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8bbc63 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8bbc63
Hue
93°
green
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
56%
balanced
Brightness
74%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4236
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
9.47:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 9
Chroma
50.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.740
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 9.4
Web-safe
#99CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue93° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness56%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8bbc63.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red13%
Green85%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#8bbc63
HEX (8-digit)#8bbc63ff
RGBrgb(139, 188, 99)
RGBArgba(139, 188, 99, 1)
HSLhsl(93, 40%, 56%)
HSV / HSBhsv(93, 47%, 74%)
HWBhwb(93 39% 26%)
CMYKcmyk(26%, 0%, 47%, 26%)
LABlab(71.1 -31.8 39.7)
LCHlch(71.1 50.9 128.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.740 0.130 132.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.88, 42.36, 18.35)
Decimal9157731
Display P3color(display-p3 0.545 0.737 0.388)
Web-safe#99CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8bbc63;
background-color: #8bbc63;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8bbc63;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8bbc63] bg-[#8bbc63]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8bbc63;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.545, green: 0.737, blue: 0.388)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.545, green: 0.737, blue: 0.388, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8BBC63</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8BBC63)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8BBC63)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(99, 188, 139)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(139, 188, 99)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(139, 188, 99)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 139, 188, 99)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5451f, 0.7373f, 0.3882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{139,188,99}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8bbc63 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8bbc63 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3D5926, #DFEDD4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8bbc63 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: #F7FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EFF4EB;
  --brand-200: #DDE9D2;
  --brand-300: #C5DDB1;
  --brand-400: #A7CC89;
  --brand-500: #8bbc63;
  --brand-600: #76AB4A;
  --brand-700: #628F3D;
  --brand-800: #4E7231;
  --brand-900: #3B5427;
  --brand-950: #253418;
  --brand: #8bbc63;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D5E6C6;
  --brand-hover: #79B04C;
  --brand-pressed: #689741;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DFEDD4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FAF5',
        100: '#EFF4EB',
        200: '#DDE9D2',
        300: '#C5DDB1',
        400: '#A7CC89',
        500: '#8bbc63',
        600: '#76AB4A',
        700: '#628F3D',
        800: '#4E7231',
        900: '#3B5427',
        950: '#253418',
        DEFAULT: '#8bbc63',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FAF5,
  '100': #EFF4EB,
  '200': #DDE9D2,
  '300': #C5DDB1,
  '400': #A7CC89,
  '500': #8bbc63,
  '600': #76AB4A,
  '700': #628F3D,
  '800': #4E7231,
  '900': #3B5427,
  '950': #253418,
);
$brand-base: #8bbc63;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF4EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDE9D2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C5DDB1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A7CC89", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8bbc63", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#76AB4A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#628F3D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4E7231", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3B5427", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#253418", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8bbc63 · 9.47:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.22:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.47:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8bbc63 as text scores 2.22:1 on white and 9.47:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3D5926 at 3.57:1.

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
#598138 · 4.54:1
AA on white−20% L
#598138
The quick fox
#43612A · 7.04:1
AAA on white−29% L
#43612A
The quick fox
#8bbc63 · 9.47:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8bbc63
The quick fox
#8bbc63 · 9.47:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8bbc63

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6FA245 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
#8bbc63 on white: 2.22:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8bbc63 on black: 9.47:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8bbc63 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8bbc63.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.22:1AaAa
Slate 502.12:1AaAa
Slate 1002.02:1AaAa
Slate 2001.80:1AaAa
Slate 3001.49:1AaAa
Slate 4001.16:1AaAa
Slate 5002.15:1AaAa
Slate 6003.42:1AaAa
Slate 7004.67:1AaAa
Slate 8006.60:1AaAa
Slate 9008.05:1AaAa
Black9.47:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C3B15C
deuteranopia · #BBAD68
tritanopia · #8CB6A7

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. #8bbc63 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7FAF5
#EFF4EB
#DDE9D2
#C5DDB1
#A7CC89
#8bbc63
#76AB4A
#628F3D
#4E7231
#3B5427
#253418
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F7FAF5Darkest = 950 · #253418Text 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 0.032 132.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 132.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.078 132.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.101 132.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.120 132.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.130 132.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.130 132.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.122 132.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.109 132.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.091 132.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.071 132.5);
}

Colors that work with #8bbc63

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D5E6C6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6F9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#7C5FC0
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3D5926
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2F7ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#79B04C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#689741
Two steps down
Disabled#C6D4BB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#95CC67
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 #8bbc63

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #3D5926
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6FA245

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight44/100
  • 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#9463BC
Analogous left#B8BC63
Analogous right#63BC68
Split-complement 1#6863BC
Split-complement 2#BC63B8
Triadic 1#638BBC
Triadic 2#BC638B
Tetradic#63B8BC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°93°

#8bbc63 sits at 93°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red54.5%
Green73.7%
Blue38.8%
R · 0–255
139
0x8b
G · 0–255
188
0xbc
B · 0–255
99
0x63

CMYK percentages

Cyan26.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow47.3%
Key (black)26.3%

Total ink coverage is 100%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8bbc63 text on a black background

contrast 9.47:1

Card sample

#8bbc63 text on a white background

contrast 2.22:1

Card sample

#8bbc63 on grey

2.02:1

#8bbc63 on its own surface

2.10:1

#8bbc63 on its dark surface

7.24:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8bbc63;
Background color
Panel with #8bbc63 background
background-color: #8bbc63;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8bbc63;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(139, 188, 99, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(139, 188, 99, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8bbc63;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8bbc63, #63BC76);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8bbc63, #63BC8D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8bbc63;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8bbc63;
caret-color: #8bbc63;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8bbc63;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2F7ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8bbc63;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8bbc63 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8bbc63 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(139, 188, 99, 0.5)
rgb(139 188 99 / 50%)
#8bbc6380
hsl(93 40% 56% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8bbc63 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8bbc631a#F3F8EF
20%#8bbc6333#E8F2E0
40%#8bbc6366#D1E4C1
60%#8bbc6399#B9D7A1
80%#8bbc63cc#A2C982

Gradients from #8bbc63

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, #ABCE8E, #8bbc63 45%, #3D5926);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8bbc63, #4EB36C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8bbc63, #9463BC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BBD8A3 0%, #8bbc63 45%, #3D5926 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #CBC987 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #79C583 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3D5926 0%, transparent 65%), #8bbc63;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8bbc63

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.

#8bbc63 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 9.47:1.

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.

#8bbc63, answered

What color is #8bbc63?

#8bbc63 is a balanced soft green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 9). It sits at 93° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 56% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #8bbc63?

rgb(139, 188, 99) — 139 red, 188 green and 99 blue out of 255, or 54.5% / 73.7% / 38.8% by channel.

What is #8bbc63 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(93, 40%, 56%) and hsv(93, 47%, 74%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8bbc63 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4236 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 9.47:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8bbc63?

Black. It scores 9.47:1 against #8bbc63, versus 2.22:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8bbc63 accessible on a white background?

#8bbc63 on white scores 2.22:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #598138 to reach 4.5:1, or #43612A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8bbc63?

#9463BC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6863BC and #BC63B8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8bbc63?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D5E6C6 for borders, #6F9B4B for secondary text, #7C5FC0 as an accent and #3D5926 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B8BC63 and #63BC68 stays calm, while #9463BC is the loudest partner.

What is #8bbc63 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(26%, 0%, 47%, 26%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #8bbc63 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #ACBC63; nudged cooler, #69BE61.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8bbc63?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 9.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #8bbc63 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #8bbc63 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8bbc63] or text-[#8bbc63], 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 #8bbc63 with 50% opacity?

rgba(139, 188, 99, 0.5), or #8bbc6380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C5DEB1; over black, #465E32.

Is #8bbc63 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC66, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8bbc63 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #8bbc63?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ABCE8E, #8bbc63 45%, #3D5926). For more colour, a short hue run to #4EB36C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8bbc63 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8bbc63 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.