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#8fcc39

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Fern

RGB
143, 204, 57
HSL
85°, 59%, 51%
CMYK
30, 0, 72, 20
Luminance
0.4932

#8fcc39 is a balanced vivid green, 85° on the wheel and 46/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.86:1). As text it scores 1.93:1 on white — use #587F21 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(85 59% 51%)rgb(143 204 57)Base step 600AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #8fcc39 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#8fcc39
Hue
85°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
51%
balanced
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
69%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4932
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
46/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
10.86:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 2.1
Chroma
75.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.776
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 2.2
Web-safe
#99CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue85° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness51%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #8fcc39.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool46% 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
Red12%
Green88%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#8fcc39
HEX (8-digit)#8fcc39ff
RGBrgb(143, 204, 57)
RGBArgba(143, 204, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(85, 59%, 51%)
HSV / HSBhsv(85, 72%, 80%)
HWBhwb(85 22% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 0%, 72%, 20%)
LABlab(75.7 -41.3 63.2)
LCHlch(75.7 75.5 123.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.776 0.184 129.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(33.66, 49.32, 11.62)
Decimal9423929
Display P3color(display-p3 0.561 0.800 0.224)
Web-safe#99CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #8fcc39;
background-color: #8fcc39;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #8fcc39;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#8fcc39] bg-[#8fcc39]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #8fcc39;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.561, green: 0.800, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.561, green: 0.800, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#8FCC39</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF8FCC39)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF8FCC39)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 204, 143)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(143, 204, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(143, 204, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 143, 204, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5608f, 0.8000f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{143,204,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #8fcc39 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #8fcc39 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#46651A, #E3EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #8fcc39 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: #F8FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F1F7E9;
  --brand-200: #E1EFCD;
  --brand-300: #CDE8A6;
  --brand-400: #B3DC79;
  --brand-500: #9AD14D;
  --brand-600: #8fcc39;
  --brand-700: #70A22A;
  --brand-800: #5A8221;
  --brand-900: #435E1C;
  --brand-950: #2A3B11;
  --brand: #8fcc39;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DAEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #7CB32E;
  --brand-pressed: #689727;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D2414;
    --brand-ink: #E3EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8FBF4',
        100: '#F1F7E9',
        200: '#E1EFCD',
        300: '#CDE8A6',
        400: '#B3DC79',
        500: '#9AD14D',
        600: '#8fcc39',
        700: '#70A22A',
        800: '#5A8221',
        900: '#435E1C',
        950: '#2A3B11',
        DEFAULT: '#8fcc39',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8FBF4,
  '100': #F1F7E9,
  '200': #E1EFCD,
  '300': #CDE8A6,
  '400': #B3DC79,
  '500': #9AD14D,
  '600': #8fcc39,
  '700': #70A22A,
  '800': #5A8221,
  '900': #435E1C,
  '950': #2A3B11,
);
$brand-base: #8fcc39;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1F7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E1EFCD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CDE8A6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B3DC79", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9AD14D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#8fcc39", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#70A22A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5A8221", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#435E1C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2A3B11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #8fcc39 · 10.86:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.93:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.86:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #8fcc39 as text scores 1.93:1 on white and 10.86:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #46651A at 3.46:1.

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
#587F21 · 4.70:1
AA on white−20% L
#587F21
The quick fox
#415E18 · 7.40:1
AAA on white−28% L
#415E18
The quick fox
#8fcc39 · 10.86:1
AA on blackalready passes
#8fcc39
The quick fox
#8fcc39 · 10.86:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#8fcc39

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #71A32A 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
#8fcc39 on white: 1.93:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#8fcc39 on black: 10.86:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #8fcc39 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #8fcc39.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.93:1AaAa
Slate 501.85:1AaAa
Slate 1001.76:1AaAa
Slate 2001.57:1AaAa
Slate 3001.30:1AaAa
Slate 4001.33:1AaAa
Slate 5002.46:1AaAa
Slate 6003.92:1AaAa
Slate 7005.36:1AaAa
Slate 8007.57:1AaAa
Slate 9009.24:1AaAa
Black10.86:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D6BD1E
deuteranopia · #CDB947
tritanopia · #93C3AF

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. #8fcc39 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F8FBF4
#F1F7E9
#E1EFCD
#CDE8A6
#B3DC79
#9AD14D
#8fcc39
#70A22A
#5A8221
#435E1C
#2A3B11
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F8FBF4Darkest = 950 · #2A3B11Text 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 0.046 129.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.074 129.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.110 129.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.144 129.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.169 129.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.184 129.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.184 129.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.173 129.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.155 129.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.129 129.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.101 129.7);
}

Colors that work with #8fcc39

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#DAEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7A9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#4E34D1
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#46651A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#7CB32E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#689727
Two steps down
Disabled#BDCAAC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9ADC3E
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #8fcc39

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 #46651A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #71A32A

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
  • Weight49/100
  • 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#7639CC
Analogous left#CCBF39
Analogous right#46CC39
Split-complement 1#3946CC
Split-complement 2#BF39CC
Triadic 1#398FCC
Triadic 2#CC398F
Tetradic#39CCBF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°85°

#8fcc39 sits at 85°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.1%
Green80.0%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
143
0x8f
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan29.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow72.1%
Key (black)20.0%

Total ink coverage is 122%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#8fcc39 text on a black background

contrast 10.86:1

Card sample

#8fcc39 text on a white background

contrast 1.93:1

Card sample

#8fcc39 on grey

1.76:1

#8fcc39 on its own surface

1.84:1

#8fcc39 on its dark surface

8.26:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #8fcc39;
Background color
Panel with #8fcc39 background
background-color: #8fcc39;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #8fcc39;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(143, 204, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(143, 204, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #8fcc39;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #8fcc39, #39CC45);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8fcc39, #39CC6A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #8fcc39;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #8fcc39;
caret-color: #8fcc39;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #8fcc39;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #8fcc39;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#8fcc39 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #8fcc39 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(143, 204, 57, 0.5)
rgb(143 204 57 / 50%)
#8fcc3980
hsl(85 59% 51% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #8fcc39 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#8fcc391a#F4FAEB
20%#8fcc3933#E9F5D7
40%#8fcc3966#D2EBB0
60%#8fcc3999#BCE088
80%#8fcc39cc#A5D661

Gradients from #8fcc39

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, #ABD96A, #8fcc39 45%, #46651A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #8fcc39, #2FB746);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #8fcc39, #7639CC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #B8DF82 0%, #8fcc39 45%, #46651A 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%, #D6C362 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #52D251 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #46651A 0%, transparent 65%), #8fcc39;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #8fcc39

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.

#8fcc39 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 10.86:1.

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.

#8fcc39, answered

What color is #8fcc39?

#8fcc39 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 2.1). It sits at 85° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 51% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #8fcc39?

rgb(143, 204, 57) — 143 red, 204 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 56.1% / 80% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #8fcc39 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(85, 59%, 51%) and hsv(85, 72%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #8fcc39 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4932 and perceived brightness is 69%, so black text on it reaches 10.86:1.

Should I use black or white text on #8fcc39?

Black. It scores 10.86:1 against #8fcc39, versus 1.93:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #8fcc39 accessible on a white background?

#8fcc39 on white scores 1.93:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #587F21 to reach 4.5:1, or #415E18 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #8fcc39?

#7639CC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3946CC and #BF39CC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #8fcc39?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DAEDC0 for borders, #7A9B4B for secondary text, #4E34D1 as an accent and #46651A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CCBF39 and #46CC39 stays calm, while #7639CC is the loudest partner.

What is #8fcc39 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 0%, 72%, 20%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #8fcc39 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 46 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C5CC39; nudged cooler, #58CE37.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #8fcc39?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 2.2 away. That is close enough to swap in without anyone noticing.

How do I use #8fcc39 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#8fcc39] or text-[#8fcc39], 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 #8fcc39 with 50% opacity?

rgba(143, 204, 57, 0.5), or #8fcc3980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C7E69C; over black, #48661D.

Is #8fcc39 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC33, ΔE2000 2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #8fcc39 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 #8fcc39?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ABD96A, #8fcc39 45%, #46651A). For more colour, a short hue run to #2FB746 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #8fcc39 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #8fcc39 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.