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#aadba2

a light, soft green · cool · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Drift Basil

RGB
170, 219, 162
HSL
112°, 44%, 75%
CMYK
22, 0, 26, 14
Luminance
0.6182

#aadba2 is a light soft green, 112° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.36:1). As text it scores 1.57:1 on white — use #3E8333 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(112 44% 75%)rgb(170 219 162)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #aadba2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#aadba2
Hue
112°
green
Saturation
44%
soft
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
86%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6182
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
13.36:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
35.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.842
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 14.7
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue112° of 360°
Saturation44%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #aadba2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool59% 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
Red14%
Green82%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#aadba2
HEX (8-digit)#aadba2ff
RGBrgb(170, 219, 162)
RGBArgba(170, 219, 162, 1)
HSLhsl(112, 44%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(112, 26%, 86%)
HWBhwb(112 64% 14%)
CMYKcmyk(22%, 0%, 26%, 14%)
LABlab(82.8 -26.6 23.0)
LCHlch(82.8 35.1 139.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.842 0.093 141.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(48.43, 61.82, 43.56)
Decimal11197346
Display P3color(display-p3 0.667 0.859 0.635)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #aadba2;
background-color: #aadba2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #aadba2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#aadba2] bg-[#aadba2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #aadba2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.667, green: 0.859, blue: 0.635)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.667, green: 0.859, blue: 0.635, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AADBA2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAADBA2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAADBA2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(162, 219, 170)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(170, 219, 162)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(170, 219, 162)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 170, 219, 162)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6667f, 0.8588f, 0.6353f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{170,219,162}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #aadba2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #aadba2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2B5C24, #D7EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #aadba2 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: #F5FAF5;
  --brand-100: #ECF5EA;
  --brand-200: #D5EBD1;
  --brand-300: #aadba2;
  --brand-400: #90D086;
  --brand-500: #6BC05D;
  --brand-600: #53B144;
  --brand-700: #469339;
  --brand-800: #38762E;
  --brand-900: #2B5624;
  --brand-950: #1B3617;
  --brand: #aadba2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C9E8C4;
  --brand-hover: #92D188;
  --brand-pressed: #7BC76E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #162414;
    --brand-ink: #D7EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF5',
        100: '#ECF5EA',
        200: '#D5EBD1',
        300: '#aadba2',
        400: '#90D086',
        500: '#6BC05D',
        600: '#53B144',
        700: '#469339',
        800: '#38762E',
        900: '#2B5624',
        950: '#1B3617',
        DEFAULT: '#aadba2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF5,
  '100': #ECF5EA,
  '200': #D5EBD1,
  '300': #aadba2,
  '400': #90D086,
  '500': #6BC05D,
  '600': #53B144,
  '700': #469339,
  '800': #38762E,
  '900': #2B5624,
  '950': #1B3617,
);
$brand-base: #aadba2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECF5EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D5EBD1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#aadba2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#90D086", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6BC05D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#53B144", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#469339", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#38762E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2B5624", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1B3617", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #aadba2 · 13.36:1
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 · 13.36:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #aadba2 as text scores 1.57:1 on white and 13.36:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2B5C24 at 5.03:1.

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
#3E8333 · 4.67:1
AA on white−39% L
#3E8333
The quick fox
#2E6226 · 7.26:1
AAA on white−48% L
#2E6226
The quick fox
#aadba2 · 13.36:1
AA on blackalready passes
#aadba2
The quick fox
#aadba2 · 13.36:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#aadba2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4FA841 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
#aadba2 on white: 1.57:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#aadba2 on black: 13.36:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #aadba2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #aadba2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.57:1AaAa
Slate 501.50:1AaAa
Slate 1001.43:1AaAa
Slate 2001.27:1AaAa
Slate 3001.06:1AaAa
Slate 4001.63:1AaAa
Slate 5003.03:1AaAa
Slate 6004.82:1AaAa
Slate 7006.59:1AaAa
Slate 8009.31:1AaAa
Slate 90011.36:1AaAa
Black13.36:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DED19F
deuteranopia · #D6CCA5
tritanopia · #A7D7CC

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. #aadba2 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.

#F5FAF5
#ECF5EA
#D5EBD1
#aadba2
#90D086
#6BC05D
#53B144
#469339
#38762E
#2B5624
#1B3617
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF5Darkest = 950 · #1B3617Text 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 0.023 141.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 141.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 141.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.073 141.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.086 141.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.093 141.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.093 141.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.087 141.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.078 141.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.065 141.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.051 141.1);
}

Colors that work with #aadba2

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#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C9E8C4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#569B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#703498
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2B5C24
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF8ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#162414
Dark-mode background
Hover#92D188
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7BC76E
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B3E6AB
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 #aadba2

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #2B5C24
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4FA841

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 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
  • Weight25/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#D3A2DB
Analogous left#C6DBA2
Analogous right#A2DBB7
Split-complement 1#B7A2DB
Split-complement 2#DBA2C6
Triadic 1#A2AADB
Triadic 2#DBA2AA
Tetradic#A2C6DB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°112°

#aadba2 sits at 112°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red66.7%
Green85.9%
Blue63.5%
R · 0–255
170
0xaa
G · 0–255
219
0xdb
B · 0–255
162
0xa2

CMYK percentages

Cyan22.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow26.0%
Key (black)14.1%

Total ink coverage is 63%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#aadba2 text on a black background

contrast 13.36:1

Card sample

#aadba2 text on a white background

contrast 1.57:1

Card sample

#aadba2 on grey

1.43:1

#aadba2 on its own surface

1.49:1

#aadba2 on its dark surface

10.31:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #aadba2;
Background color
Panel with #aadba2 background
background-color: #aadba2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #aadba2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(170, 219, 162, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(170, 219, 162, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #aadba2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #aadba2, #A2DBC0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #aadba2, #A2DBCE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #aadba2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #aadba2;
caret-color: #aadba2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #aadba2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF8ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #aadba2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#aadba2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #aadba2 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(170, 219, 162, 0.5)
rgb(170 219 162 / 50%)
#aadba280
hsl(112 44% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #aadba2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#aadba21a#F7FBF6
20%#aadba233#EEF8EC
40%#aadba266#DDF1DA
60%#aadba299#CCE9C7
80%#aadba2cc#BBE2B5

Gradients from #aadba2

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, #D2ECCE, #aadba2 45%, #2B5C24);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #aadba2, #8CD2B7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #aadba2, #D3A2DB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E6F5E4 0%, #aadba2 45%, #2B5C24 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E0E9C7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B8E4CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2B5C24 0%, transparent 65%), #aadba2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #aadba2

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.

#aadba2 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 13.36:1.

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.

#aadba2, answered

What color is #aadba2?

#aadba2 is a light soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 112° on the hue wheel with 44% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #aadba2?

rgb(170, 219, 162) — 170 red, 219 green and 162 blue out of 255, or 66.7% / 85.9% / 63.5% by channel.

What is #aadba2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(112, 44%, 75%) and hsv(112, 26%, 86%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #aadba2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6182 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 13.36:1.

Should I use black or white text on #aadba2?

Black. It scores 13.36:1 against #aadba2, versus 1.57:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #aadba2 accessible on a white background?

#aadba2 on white scores 1.57:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3E8333 to reach 4.5:1, or #2E6226 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #aadba2?

#D3A2DB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B7A2DB and #DBA2C6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #aadba2?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C9E8C4 for borders, #569B4B for secondary text, #703498 as an accent and #2B5C24 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C6DBA2 and #A2DBB7 stays calm, while #D3A2DB is the loudest partner.

What is #aadba2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(22%, 0%, 26%, 14%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #aadba2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 59 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BFDBA2; nudged cooler, #A1DCAE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #aadba2?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 14.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #aadba2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #aadba2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#aadba2] or text-[#aadba2], 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 #aadba2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(170, 219, 162, 0.5), or #aadba280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5EDD1; over black, #556E51.

Is #aadba2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #aadba2 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 #aadba2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D2ECCE, #aadba2 45%, #2B5C24). For more colour, a short hue run to #8CD2B7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #aadba2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #aadba2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.