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#94dfad

a light, vivid green · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Linen Basil

RGB
148, 223, 173
HSL
140°, 54%, 73%
CMYK
34, 0, 22, 13
Luminance
0.6209

#94dfad is a light vivid green, 140° on the wheel and 71/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.42:1). As text it scores 1.57:1 on white — use #288446 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(140 54% 73%)rgb(148 223 173)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #94dfad is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#94dfad
Hue
140°
green
Saturation
54%
vivid
Lightness
73%
light
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6209
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
71/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.42:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 7.7
Chroma
37.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.841
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 13.5
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue140° of 360°
Saturation54%
Lightness73%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #94dfad.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool71% 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
Red10%
Green85%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#94dfad
HEX (8-digit)#94dfadff
RGBrgb(148, 223, 173)
RGBArgba(148, 223, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(140, 54%, 73%)
HSV / HSBhsv(140, 34%, 87%)
HWBhwb(140 58% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(34%, 0%, 22%, 13%)
LABlab(83.0 -33.6 17.3)
LCHlch(83.0 37.8 152.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.841 0.103 154.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(46.14, 62.09, 49.08)
Decimal9756589
Display P3color(display-p3 0.580 0.875 0.678)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #94dfad;
background-color: #94dfad;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #94dfad;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#94dfad] bg-[#94dfad]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #94dfad;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.580, green: 0.875, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.580, green: 0.875, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#94DFAD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF94DFAD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF94DFAD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 223, 148)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(148, 223, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(148, 223, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 148, 223, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5804f, 0.8745f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{148,223,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #94dfad 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #94dfad 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1D6234, #D3EEDC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #94dfad 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: #F4FBF6;
  --brand-100: #E9F6EE;
  --brand-200: #CEEED9;
  --brand-300: #94dfad;
  --brand-400: #7DD89C;
  --brand-500: #52CB7B;
  --brand-600: #38BC64;
  --brand-700: #2F9D54;
  --brand-800: #267E43;
  --brand-900: #1F5C33;
  --brand-950: #133920;
  --brand: #94dfad;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0ECCF;
  --brand-hover: #78D798;
  --brand-pressed: #5DCF83;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142419;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF6',
        100: '#E9F6EE',
        200: '#CEEED9',
        300: '#94dfad',
        400: '#7DD89C',
        500: '#52CB7B',
        600: '#38BC64',
        700: '#2F9D54',
        800: '#267E43',
        900: '#1F5C33',
        950: '#133920',
        DEFAULT: '#94dfad',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF6,
  '100': #E9F6EE,
  '200': #CEEED9,
  '300': #94dfad,
  '400': #7DD89C,
  '500': #52CB7B,
  '600': #38BC64,
  '700': #2F9D54,
  '800': #267E43,
  '900': #1F5C33,
  '950': #133920,
);
$brand-base: #94dfad;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F6EE", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CEEED9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94dfad", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7DD89C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#52CB7B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#38BC64", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2F9D54", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#267E43", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1F5C33", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#133920", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #94dfad · 13.42:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.57:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.42:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #94dfad as text scores 1.57:1 on white and 13.42:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1D6234 at 4.71:1.

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
#288446 · 4.69:1
AA on white−39% L
#288446
The quick fox
#1E6536 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−47% L
#1E6536
The quick fox
#94dfad · 13.42:1
AA on blackalready passes
#94dfad
The quick fox
#94dfad · 13.42:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#94dfad

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #32A859 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
#94dfad on white: 1.57:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#94dfad on black: 13.42:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #94dfad as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #94dfad.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.57:1AaAa
Slate 501.50:1AaAa
Slate 1001.43:1AaAa
Slate 2001.27:1AaAa
Slate 3001.05:1AaAa
Slate 4001.64:1AaAa
Slate 5003.04:1AaAa
Slate 6004.84:1AaAa
Slate 7006.62:1AaAa
Slate 8009.35:1AaAa
Slate 90011.41:1AaAa
Black13.42:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFD4AA
deuteranopia · #D3CBB0
tritanopia · #87DDD1

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. #94dfad is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4FBF6
#E9F6EE
#CEEED9
#94dfad
#7DD89C
#52CB7B
#38BC64
#2F9D54
#267E43
#1F5C33
#133920
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF6Darkest = 950 · #133920Text 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 0.026 154.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.041 154.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.062 154.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.080 154.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.094 154.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.103 154.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.103 154.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.096 154.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.086 154.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.072 154.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.056 154.4);
}

Colors that work with #94dfad

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#F4FAF6
Tinted page background
Border#C0ECCF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B65
Captions on the surface
Accent#A12B97
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1D6234
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBF9F0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142419
Dark-mode background
Hover#78D798
One step down in lightness
Pressed#5DCF83
Two steps down
Disabled#EFF4F0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9EEAB7
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 #94dfad

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 #1D6234
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #32A859

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
  • Weight27/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

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#DF94C6
Analogous left#A0DF94
Analogous right#94DFD2
Split-complement 1#D294DF
Split-complement 2#DF94A0
Triadic 1#AD94DF
Triadic 2#DFAD94
Tetradic#94A0DF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°140°

#94dfad sits at 140°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red58.0%
Green87.5%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
148
0x94
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan33.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow22.4%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 69%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#94dfad text on a black background

contrast 13.42:1

Card sample

#94dfad text on a white background

contrast 1.57:1

Card sample

#94dfad on grey

1.43:1

#94dfad on its own surface

1.48:1

#94dfad on its dark surface

10.35:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #94dfad;
Background color
Panel with #94dfad background
background-color: #94dfad;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #94dfad;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(148, 223, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(148, 223, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #94dfad;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #94dfad, #94DFDF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #94dfad, #94CCDF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #94dfad;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #94dfad;
caret-color: #94dfad;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #94dfad;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBF9F0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #94dfad;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#94dfad 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #94dfad 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(148, 223, 173, 0.5)
rgb(148 223 173 / 50%)
#94dfad80
hsl(140 54% 73% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #94dfad 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#94dfad1a#F4FCF7
20%#94dfad33#EAF9EF
40%#94dfad66#D4F2DE
60%#94dfad99#BFECCE
80%#94dfadcc#A9E5BD

Gradients from #94dfad

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, #C3EDD1, #94dfad 45%, #1D6234);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #94dfad, #7CD0D8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #94dfad, #DF94C6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DAF4E3 0%, #94dfad 45%, #1D6234 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #C7EBBB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #ABE6E1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1D6234 0%, transparent 65%), #94dfad;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #94dfad

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.

#94dfad 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 13.42:1.

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.

#94dfad, answered

What color is #94dfad?

#94dfad is a light vivid green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 7.7). It sits at 140° on the hue wheel with 54% saturation and 73% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #94dfad?

rgb(148, 223, 173) — 148 red, 223 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 58% / 87.5% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #94dfad in HSL and HSV?

hsl(140, 54%, 73%) and hsv(140, 34%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #94dfad a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6209 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 13.42:1.

Should I use black or white text on #94dfad?

Black. It scores 13.42:1 against #94dfad, versus 1.57:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #94dfad accessible on a white background?

#94dfad on white scores 1.57:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #288446 to reach 4.5:1, or #1E6536 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #94dfad?

#DF94C6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D294DF and #DF94A0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #94dfad?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0ECCF for borders, #4B9B65 for secondary text, #A12B97 as an accent and #1D6234 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A0DF94 and #94DFD2 stays calm, while #DF94C6 is the loudest partner.

What is #94dfad in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(34%, 0%, 22%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #94dfad warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 71 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #96DF94; nudged cooler, #92E0C9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #94dfad?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 13.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #94dfad as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #94dfad in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#94dfad] or text-[#94dfad], 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 #94dfad with 50% opacity?

rgba(148, 223, 173, 0.5), or #94dfad80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CAEFD6; over black, #4A7057.

Is #94dfad a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #94dfad 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 #94dfad?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C3EDD1, #94dfad 45%, #1D6234). For more colour, a short hue run to #7CD0D8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #94dfad in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #94dfad at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.