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#a8f621

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Jade

RGB
168, 246, 33
HSL
82°, 92%, 55%
CMYK
32, 0, 87, 4
Luminance
0.7435

#a8f621 is a balanced electric green, 82° on the wheel and 43/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.87:1). As text it scores 1.32:1 on white — use #558305 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(82 92% 55%)rgb(168 246 33)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #a8f621 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#a8f621
Hue
82°
green
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
55%
balanced
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7435
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
43/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.87:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 1.9
Chroma
96.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.889
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 9.9
Web-safe
#99FF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue82° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness55%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #a8f621.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool43% 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
Red11%
Green89%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#a8f621
HEX (8-digit)#a8f621ff
RGBrgb(168, 246, 33)
RGBArgba(168, 246, 33, 1)
HSLhsl(82, 92%, 55%)
HSV / HSBhsv(82, 87%, 96%)
HWBhwb(82 13% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 0%, 87%, 4%)
LABlab(89.1 -51.0 82.2)
LCHlch(89.1 96.8 121.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.889 0.230 129.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(49.38, 74.34, 13.19)
Decimal11073057
Display P3color(display-p3 0.659 0.965 0.129)
Web-safe#99FF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #a8f621;
background-color: #a8f621;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #a8f621;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#a8f621] bg-[#a8f621]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #a8f621;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.659, green: 0.965, blue: 0.129)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.659, green: 0.965, blue: 0.129, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#A8F621</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFA8F621)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFA8F621)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(33, 246, 168)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(168, 246, 33)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(168, 246, 33)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 168, 246, 33)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6588f, 0.9647f, 0.1294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{168,246,33}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #a8f621 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #a8f621 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4F7B05, #E4EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #a8f621 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: #F9FDF2;
  --brand-100: #F3FBE4;
  --brand-200: #E5F9C3;
  --brand-300: #D5FB93;
  --brand-400: #C0F85D;
  --brand-500: #a8f621;
  --brand-600: #98EB0A;
  --brand-700: #7FC408;
  --brand-800: #669D06;
  --brand-900: #4B7109;
  --brand-950: #2F4706;
  --brand: #a8f621;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DCEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #98EA09;
  --brand-pressed: #81C708;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E2414;
    --brand-ink: #E4EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FDF2',
        100: '#F3FBE4',
        200: '#E5F9C3',
        300: '#D5FB93',
        400: '#C0F85D',
        500: '#a8f621',
        600: '#98EB0A',
        700: '#7FC408',
        800: '#669D06',
        900: '#4B7109',
        950: '#2F4706',
        DEFAULT: '#a8f621',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FDF2,
  '100': #F3FBE4,
  '200': #E5F9C3,
  '300': #D5FB93,
  '400': #C0F85D,
  '500': #a8f621,
  '600': #98EB0A,
  '700': #7FC408,
  '800': #669D06,
  '900': #4B7109,
  '950': #2F4706,
);
$brand-base: #a8f621;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3FBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5F9C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D5FB93", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C0F85D", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#a8f621", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#98EB0A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7FC408", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#669D06", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4B7109", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F4706", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #a8f621 · 15.87:1
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 · 15.87:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #a8f621 as text scores 1.32:1 on white and 15.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4F7B05 at 3.81:1.

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
#558305 · 4.53:1
AA on white−28% L
#558305
The quick fox
#3F6104 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−35% L
#3F6104
The quick fox
#a8f621 · 15.87:1
AA on blackalready passes
#a8f621
The quick fox
#a8f621 · 15.87:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#a8f621

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6BA507 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
#a8f621 on white: 1.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#a8f621 on black: 15.87:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #a8f621 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #a8f621.

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 7007.82:1AaAa
Slate 80011.05:1AaAa
Slate 90013.49:1AaAa
Black15.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE300
deuteranopia · #F7DE3F
tritanopia · #ADEBD2

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. #a8f621 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.

#F9FDF2
#F3FBE4
#E5F9C3
#D5FB93
#C0F85D
#a8f621
#98EB0A
#7FC408
#669D06
#4B7109
#2F4706
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FDF2Darkest = 950 · #2F4706Text 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 0.058 129.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.092 129.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.138 129.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.180 129.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.212 129.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.230 129.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.230 129.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.217 129.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.194 129.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.161 129.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.127 129.5);
}

Colors that work with #a8f621

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#DCEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7D9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#361CFB
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4F7B05
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#98EA09
One step down in lightness
Pressed#81C708
Two steps down
Disabled#C7D1B7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B2FF2C
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 #a8f621

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 #4F7B05
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6BA507

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight45/100
  • 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#6F21F6
Analogous left#F6DA21
Analogous right#3DF621
Split-complement 1#213DF6
Split-complement 2#DA21F6
Triadic 1#21A8F6
Triadic 2#F621A8
Tetradic#21F6DA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°82°

#a8f621 sits at 82°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red65.9%
Green96.5%
Blue12.9%
R · 0–255
168
0xa8
G · 0–255
246
0xf6
B · 0–255
33
0x21

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow86.6%
Key (black)3.5%

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

Color previews

#a8f621 text on a black background

contrast 15.87:1

Card sample

#a8f621 text on a white background

contrast 1.32:1

Card sample

#a8f621 on grey

1.21:1

#a8f621 on its own surface

1.26:1

#a8f621 on its dark surface

12.04:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #a8f621;
Background color
Panel with #a8f621 background
background-color: #a8f621;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #a8f621;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(168, 246, 33, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(168, 246, 33, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #a8f621;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #a8f621, #21F628);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a8f621, #21F65D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #a8f621;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #a8f621;
caret-color: #a8f621;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #a8f621;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #a8f621;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#a8f621 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #a8f621 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(168, 246, 33, 0.5)
rgb(168 246 33 / 50%)
#a8f62180
hsl(82 92% 55% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #a8f621 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#a8f6211a#F6FEE9
20%#a8f62133#EEFDD3
40%#a8f62166#DCFBA6
60%#a8f62199#CBFA7A
80%#a8f621cc#B9F84D

Gradients from #a8f621

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, #BFF85C, #a8f621 45%, #4F7B05);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #a8f621, #0AEF24);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a8f621, #6F21F6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CBFA79 0%, #a8f621 45%, #4F7B05 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%, #F8D452 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #48F73E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4F7B05 0%, transparent 65%), #a8f621;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #a8f621

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.

#a8f621 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

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 15.87:1.

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.

#a8f621, answered

What color is #a8f621?

#a8f621 is a balanced electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 1.9). It sits at 82° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 55% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #a8f621?

rgb(168, 246, 33) — 168 red, 246 green and 33 blue out of 255, or 65.9% / 96.5% / 12.9% by channel.

What is #a8f621 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(82, 92%, 55%) and hsv(82, 87%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #a8f621 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7435 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 15.87:1.

Should I use black or white text on #a8f621?

Black. It scores 15.87:1 against #a8f621, versus 1.32:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #a8f621 accessible on a white background?

#a8f621 on white scores 1.32:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #558305 to reach 4.5:1, or #3F6104 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #a8f621?

#6F21F6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #213DF6 and #DA21F6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #a8f621?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DCEDC0 for borders, #7D9B4B for secondary text, #361CFB as an accent and #4F7B05 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F6DA21 and #3DF621 stays calm, while #6F21F6 is the loudest partner.

What is #a8f621 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 0%, 87%, 4%). 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 #a8f621 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 43 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F6F621; nudged cooler, #59F81F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #a8f621?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 9.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #a8f621 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #a8f621 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#a8f621] or text-[#a8f621], 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 #a8f621 with 50% opacity?

rgba(168, 246, 33, 0.5), or #a8f62180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D4FB90; over black, #547B11.

Is #a8f621 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF33, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #a8f621 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 #a8f621?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #BFF85C, #a8f621 45%, #4F7B05). For more colour, a short hue run to #0AEF24 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #a8f621 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #a8f621 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.