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#91a968

a balanced, soft green · neutral · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: True Moss

RGB
145, 169, 104
HSL
82°, 27%, 54%
CMYK
14, 0, 39, 34
Luminance
0.3540

#91a968 is a balanced soft green, 82° on the wheel and 45/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.08:1). As text it scores 2.60:1 on white — use #697D47 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(82 27% 54%)rgb(145 169 104)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #91a968 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#91a968
Hue
82°
green
Saturation
27%
soft
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
66%
HSV value
Perceived
61%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3540
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
45/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
8.08:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.9
Chroma
36.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.701
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 14.8
Web-safe
#999966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue82° of 360°
Saturation27%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #91a968.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool45% 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
Red17%
Green80%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#91a968
HEX (8-digit)#91a968ff
RGBrgb(145, 169, 104)
RGBArgba(145, 169, 104, 1)
HSLhsl(82, 27%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(82, 38%, 66%)
HWBhwb(82 41% 34%)
CMYKcmyk(14%, 0%, 39%, 34%)
LABlab(66.1 -19.6 30.8)
LCHlch(66.1 36.5 122.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.701 0.093 125.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(28.36, 35.39, 18.43)
Decimal9546088
Display P3color(display-p3 0.569 0.663 0.408)
Web-safe#999966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #91a968;
background-color: #91a968;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #91a968;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#91a968] bg-[#91a968]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #91a968;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.569, green: 0.663, blue: 0.408)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.569, green: 0.663, blue: 0.408, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#91A968</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF91A968)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF91A968)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(104, 169, 145)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(145, 169, 104)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(145, 169, 104)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 145, 169, 104)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5686f, 0.6627f, 0.4078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{145,169,104}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #91a968 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #91a968 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#44512E, #E3E9D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #91a968 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: #F8F9F6;
  --brand-100: #F1F3EC;
  --brand-200: #E0E6D6;
  --brand-300: #CBD6B8;
  --brand-400: #B1C294;
  --brand-500: #91a968;
  --brand-600: #839C59;
  --brand-700: #6D824A;
  --brand-800: #57683B;
  --brand-900: #414D2E;
  --brand-950: #29301D;
  --brand: #91a968;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8F9F5;
  --brand-border: #D9E1CB;
  --brand-hover: #7F9756;
  --brand-pressed: #6C8049;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E2414;
    --brand-ink: #E3E9D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8F9F6',
        100: '#F1F3EC',
        200: '#E0E6D6',
        300: '#CBD6B8',
        400: '#B1C294',
        500: '#91a968',
        600: '#839C59',
        700: '#6D824A',
        800: '#57683B',
        900: '#414D2E',
        950: '#29301D',
        DEFAULT: '#91a968',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8F9F6,
  '100': #F1F3EC,
  '200': #E0E6D6,
  '300': #CBD6B8,
  '400': #B1C294,
  '500': #91a968,
  '600': #839C59,
  '700': #6D824A,
  '800': #57683B,
  '900': #414D2E,
  '950': #29301D,
);
$brand-base: #91a968;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1F3EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E0E6D6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CBD6B8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#B1C294", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#91a968", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#839C59", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6D824A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#57683B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#414D2E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#29301D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #91a968 · 8.08:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.60:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.08:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #91a968 as text scores 2.60:1 on white and 8.08:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #44512E at 3.28:1.

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
#697D47 · 4.54:1
AA on white−15% L
#697D47
The quick fox
#4E5D35 · 7.14:1
AAA on white−25% L
#4E5D35
The quick fox
#91a968 · 8.08:1
AA on blackalready passes
#91a968
The quick fox
#91a968 · 8.08:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#91a968

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #829A58 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
#91a968 on white: 2.60:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#91a968 on black: 8.08:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #91a968 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #91a968.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.60:1AaAa
Slate 502.48:1AaAa
Slate 1002.37:1AaAa
Slate 2002.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.75:1AaAa
Slate 4001.01:1AaAa
Slate 5001.83:1AaAa
Slate 6002.92:1AaAa
Slate 7003.98:1AaAa
Slate 8005.63:1AaAa
Slate 9006.87:1AaAa
Black8.08:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B0A163
deuteranopia · #ACA06B
tritanopia · #95A399

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. #91a968 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.

#F8F9F6
#F1F3EC
#E0E6D6
#CBD6B8
#B1C294
#91a968
#839C59
#6D824A
#57683B
#414D2E
#29301D
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F8F9F6Darkest = 950 · #29301DText 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 0.023 125.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 125.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 125.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.072 125.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.085 125.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.093 125.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.093 125.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.087 125.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.078 125.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.065 125.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.051 125.2);
}

Colors that work with #91a968

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#F8F9F5
Tinted page background
Border#D9E1CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7B9253
Captions on the surface
Accent#6C63AE
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#44512E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F3F6EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#7F9756
One step down in lightness
Pressed#6C8049
Two steps down
Disabled#C4CEB3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9DBB6A
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 #91a968

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 #44512E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #829A58

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
  • Weight47/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • 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#8068A9
Analogous left#A9A068
Analogous right#70A968
Split-complement 1#6870A9
Split-complement 2#A068A9
Triadic 1#6891A9
Triadic 2#A96891
Tetradic#68A9A0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°82°

#91a968 sits at 82°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red56.9%
Green66.3%
Blue40.8%
R · 0–255
145
0x91
G · 0–255
169
0xa9
B · 0–255
104
0x68

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow38.5%
Key (black)33.7%

Total ink coverage is 86%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#91a968 text on a black background

contrast 8.08:1

Card sample

#91a968 text on a white background

contrast 2.60:1

Card sample

#91a968 on grey

2.37:1

#91a968 on its own surface

2.46:1

#91a968 on its dark surface

6.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #91a968;
Background color
Panel with #91a968 background
background-color: #91a968;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #91a968;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(145, 169, 104, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(145, 169, 104, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #91a968;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #91a968, #68A96A);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #91a968, #68A97B);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #91a968;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #91a968;
caret-color: #91a968;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #91a968;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F3F6EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #91a968;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#91a968 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #91a968 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(145, 169, 104, 0.5)
rgb(145 169 104 / 50%)
#91a96880
hsl(82 27% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #91a968 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#91a9681a#F4F6F0
20%#91a96833#E9EEE1
40%#91a96866#D3DDC3
60%#91a96899#BDCBA4
80%#91a968cc#A7BA86

Gradients from #91a968

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, #ADBF8F, #91a968 45%, #44512E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #91a968, #589A60);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #91a968, #8068A9);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BCCAA2 0%, #91a968 45%, #44512E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8F9F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #BBB188 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7EB47B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #44512E 0%, transparent 65%), #91a968;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #91a968

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.

#91a968 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 8.08:1.

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.

#91a968, answered

What color is #91a968?

#91a968 is a balanced soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.9). It sits at 82° on the hue wheel with 27% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #91a968?

rgb(145, 169, 104) — 145 red, 169 green and 104 blue out of 255, or 56.9% / 66.3% / 40.8% by channel.

What is #91a968 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(82, 27%, 54%) and hsv(82, 38%, 66%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #91a968 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3540 and perceived brightness is 61%, so black text on it reaches 8.08:1.

Should I use black or white text on #91a968?

Black. It scores 8.08:1 against #91a968, versus 2.60:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #91a968 accessible on a white background?

#91a968 on white scores 2.60:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #697D47 to reach 4.5:1, or #4E5D35 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #91a968?

#8068A9 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6870A9 and #A068A9, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #91a968?

For interface work: #F8F9F5 as the surface, #D9E1CB for borders, #7B9253 for secondary text, #6C63AE as an accent and #44512E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A9A068 and #70A968 stays calm, while #8068A9 is the loudest partner.

What is #91a968 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(14%, 0%, 39%, 34%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #91a968 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 45 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A9A968; nudged cooler, #78AB66.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #91a968?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 14.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #91a968 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #91a968 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#91a968] or text-[#91a968], 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 #91a968 with 50% opacity?

rgba(145, 169, 104, 0.5), or #91a96880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C8D4B4; over black, #495534.

Is #91a968 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #999966, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #91a968 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 #91a968?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ADBF8F, #91a968 45%, #44512E). For more colour, a short hue run to #589A60 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #91a968 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #91a968 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.