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#9cf75d

a light, electric green · neutral · closest name: Lawn Green

Token name suggestion: Linen Basil

RGB
156, 247, 93
HSL
96°, 91%, 67%
CMYK
37, 0, 62, 3
Luminance
0.7438

#9cf75d is a light electric green, 96° on the wheel and 52/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.88:1). As text it scores 1.32:1 on white — use #3B8707 instead. Nearest name is Lawn Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(96 91% 67%)rgb(156 247 93)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #9cf75d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#9cf75d
Hue
96°
green
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
67%
light
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7438
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
52/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.88:1
Closest name
Lawn Green
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
82.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.888
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 10.3
Web-safe
#99FF66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue96° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness67%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #9cf75d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool52% 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
Red10%
Green89%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#9cf75d
HEX (8-digit)#9cf75dff
RGBrgb(156, 247, 93)
RGBArgba(156, 247, 93, 1)
HSLhsl(96, 91%, 67%)
HSV / HSBhsv(95, 62%, 97%)
HWBhwb(96 36% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(37%, 0%, 62%, 3%)
LABlab(89.1 -52.3 63.6)
LCHlch(89.1 82.3 129.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.888 0.207 134.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(48.95, 74.38, 22.13)
Decimal10286941
Display P3color(display-p3 0.612 0.969 0.365)
Web-safe#99FF66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #9cf75d;
background-color: #9cf75d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #9cf75d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#9cf75d] bg-[#9cf75d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #9cf75d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.612, green: 0.969, blue: 0.365)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.612, green: 0.969, blue: 0.365, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#9CF75D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF9CF75D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF9CF75D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(93, 247, 156)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(156, 247, 93)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(156, 247, 93)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 156, 247, 93)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6118f, 0.9686f, 0.3647f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{156,247,93}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #9cf75d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #9cf75d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#357A06, #DEEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #9cf75d 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: #F6FDF2;
  --brand-100: #EEFBE5;
  --brand-200: #D9F9C3;
  --brand-300: #BEFA94;
  --brand-400: #9cf75d;
  --brand-500: #7CF429;
  --brand-600: #66E90C;
  --brand-700: #55C20A;
  --brand-800: #449C08;
  --brand-900: #34700A;
  --brand-950: #204606;
  --brand: #9cf75d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D2EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #87F53B;
  --brand-pressed: #72F419;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DEEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6FDF2',
        100: '#EEFBE5',
        200: '#D9F9C3',
        300: '#BEFA94',
        400: '#9cf75d',
        500: '#7CF429',
        600: '#66E90C',
        700: '#55C20A',
        800: '#449C08',
        900: '#34700A',
        950: '#204606',
        DEFAULT: '#9cf75d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6FDF2,
  '100': #EEFBE5,
  '200': #D9F9C3,
  '300': #BEFA94,
  '400': #9cf75d,
  '500': #7CF429,
  '600': #66E90C,
  '700': #55C20A,
  '800': #449C08,
  '900': #34700A,
  '950': #204606,
);
$brand-base: #9cf75d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEFBE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D9F9C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BEFA94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9cf75d", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7CF429", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#66E90C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#55C20A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#449C08", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#34700A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#204606", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #9cf75d · 15.88:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.32:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.88:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #9cf75d as text scores 1.32:1 on white and 15.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #357A06 at 4.03:1.

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
#3B8707 · 4.51:1
AA on white−39% L
#3B8707
The quick fox
#2C6505 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−46% L
#2C6505
The quick fox
#9cf75d · 15.88:1
AA on blackalready passes
#9cf75d
The quick fox
#9cf75d · 15.88:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#9cf75d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4AA908 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
#9cf75d on white: 1.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#9cf75d on black: 15.88:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #9cf75d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #9cf75d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.32:1AaAa
Slate 501.26:1AaAa
Slate 1001.21:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.94:1AaAa
Slate 5003.60:1AaAa
Slate 6005.73:1AaAa
Slate 7007.83:1AaAa
Slate 80011.06:1AaAa
Slate 90013.50:1AaAa
Black15.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE54A
deuteranopia · #F3DD69
tritanopia · #9BEED7

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. #9cf75d is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F6FDF2
#EEFBE5
#D9F9C3
#BEFA94
#9cf75d
#7CF429
#66E90C
#55C20A
#449C08
#34700A
#204606
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F6FDF2Darkest = 950 · #204606Text 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 0.052 134.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.083 134.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.124 134.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.161 134.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.190 134.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.207 134.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.207 134.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.194 134.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.174 134.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.145 134.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.114 134.7);
}

Colors that work with #9cf75d

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#D2EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6B9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#915AFA
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#357A06
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0FEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#87F53B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#72F419
Two steps down
Disabled#E1E9DC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A7FF6A
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 #9cf75d

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 #357A06
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4AA908

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight33/100
  • 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#B85DF7
Analogous left#E9F75D
Analogous right#5DF76B
Split-complement 1#6B5DF7
Split-complement 2#F75DE9
Triadic 1#5D9CF7
Triadic 2#F75D9C
Tetradic#5DE9F7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°96°

#9cf75d sits at 96°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red61.2%
Green96.9%
Blue36.5%
R · 0–255
156
0x9c
G · 0–255
247
0xf7
B · 0–255
93
0x5d

CMYK percentages

Cyan36.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow62.3%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 102%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#9cf75d text on a black background

contrast 15.88:1

Card sample

#9cf75d text on a white background

contrast 1.32:1

Card sample

#9cf75d on grey

1.21:1

#9cf75d on its own surface

1.26:1

#9cf75d on its dark surface

12.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #9cf75d;
Background color
Panel with #9cf75d background
background-color: #9cf75d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #9cf75d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(156, 247, 93, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(156, 247, 93, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #9cf75d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #9cf75d, #5DF785);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #9cf75d, #5DF7AB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #9cf75d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #9cf75d;
caret-color: #9cf75d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #9cf75d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0FEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #9cf75d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#9cf75d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #9cf75d 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(156, 247, 93, 0.5)
rgb(156 247 93 / 50%)
#9cf75d80
hsl(96 91% 67% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #9cf75d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#9cf75d1a#F5FEEF
20%#9cf75d33#EBFDDF
40%#9cf75d66#D7FCBE
60%#9cf75d99#C4FA9E
80%#9cf75dcc#B0F97D

Gradients from #9cf75d

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, #C0FA97, #9cf75d 45%, #357A06);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #9cf75d, #40F67E);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #9cf75d, #B85DF7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D2FBB5 0%, #9cf75d 45%, #357A06 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%, #F9F98E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7AF890 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #357A06 0%, transparent 65%), #9cf75d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #9cf75d

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.

#9cf75d 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

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 15.88:1.

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.

#9cf75d, answered

What color is #9cf75d?

#9cf75d is a light electric green, closest to Lawn Green (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 96° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 67% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #9cf75d?

rgb(156, 247, 93) — 156 red, 247 green and 93 blue out of 255, or 61.2% / 96.9% / 36.5% by channel.

What is #9cf75d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(96, 91%, 67%) and hsv(95, 62%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #9cf75d a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7438 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 15.88:1.

Should I use black or white text on #9cf75d?

Black. It scores 15.88:1 against #9cf75d, versus 1.32:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #9cf75d accessible on a white background?

#9cf75d on white scores 1.32:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3B8707 to reach 4.5:1, or #2C6505 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #9cf75d?

#B85DF7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6B5DF7 and #F75DE9, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #9cf75d?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D2EDC0 for borders, #6B9B4B for secondary text, #915AFA as an accent and #357A06 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E9F75D and #5DF76B stays calm, while #B85DF7 is the loudest partner.

What is #9cf75d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(37%, 0%, 62%, 3%). 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 #9cf75d warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 52 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D4F75D; nudged cooler, #62F95B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #9cf75d?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 10.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #9cf75d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #9cf75d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#9cf75d] or text-[#9cf75d], 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 #9cf75d with 50% opacity?

rgba(156, 247, 93, 0.5), or #9cf75d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CEFBAE; over black, #4E7C2F.

Is #9cf75d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF66, ΔE2000 1.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #9cf75d 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 #9cf75d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C0FA97, #9cf75d 45%, #357A06). For more colour, a short hue run to #40F67E keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #9cf75d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #9cf75d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.