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#abbba0

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Basil

RGB
171, 187, 160
HSL
96°, 17%, 68%
CMYK
9, 0, 14, 27
Luminance
0.4674

#abbba0 is a light soft green, 96° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.35:1). As text it scores 2.03:1 on white — use #687D59 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(96 17% 68%)rgb(171 187 160)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #abbba0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#abbba0
Hue
96°
green
Saturation
17%
soft
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
73%
HSV value
Perceived
70%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4674
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
10.35:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.4
Chroma
15.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.772
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 18.5
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue96° of 360°
Saturation17%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #abbba0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red19%
Green76%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#abbba0
HEX (8-digit)#abbba0ff
RGBrgb(171, 187, 160)
RGBArgba(171, 187, 160, 1)
HSLhsl(96, 17%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(96, 14%, 73%)
HWBhwb(96 63% 27%)
CMYKcmyk(9%, 0%, 14%, 27%)
LABlab(74.0 -10.5 11.8)
LCHlch(74.0 15.8 131.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.772 0.042 132.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(40.91, 46.74, 40.12)
Decimal11254688
Display P3color(display-p3 0.671 0.733 0.627)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #abbba0;
background-color: #abbba0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #abbba0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#abbba0] bg-[#abbba0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #abbba0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.671, green: 0.733, blue: 0.627)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.671, green: 0.733, blue: 0.627, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ABBBA0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFABBBA0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFABBBA0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(160, 187, 171)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(171, 187, 160)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(171, 187, 160)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 171, 187, 160)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6706f, 0.7333f, 0.6275f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{171,187,160}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #abbba0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #abbba0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3E4A35, #DFE5DB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #abbba0 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: #F7F8F6;
  --brand-100: #EFF2EE;
  --brand-200: #DDE3D9;
  --brand-300: #C5D0BE;
  --brand-400: #abbba0;
  --brand-500: #8BA17C;
  --brand-600: #778F66;
  --brand-700: #637755;
  --brand-800: #4F5F44;
  --brand-900: #3B4734;
  --brand-950: #252C20;
  --brand: #abbba0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7F9F6;
  --brand-border: #D5DDCF;
  --brand-hover: #98AC8B;
  --brand-pressed: #869D76;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2117;
    --brand-ink: #DFE5DB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F8F6',
        100: '#EFF2EE',
        200: '#DDE3D9',
        300: '#C5D0BE',
        400: '#abbba0',
        500: '#8BA17C',
        600: '#778F66',
        700: '#637755',
        800: '#4F5F44',
        900: '#3B4734',
        950: '#252C20',
        DEFAULT: '#abbba0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F8F6,
  '100': #EFF2EE,
  '200': #DDE3D9,
  '300': #C5D0BE,
  '400': #abbba0,
  '500': #8BA17C,
  '600': #778F66,
  '700': #637755,
  '800': #4F5F44,
  '900': #3B4734,
  '950': #252C20,
);
$brand-base: #abbba0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F8F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF2EE", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDE3D9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C5D0BE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#abbba0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8BA17C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#778F66", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#637755", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4F5F44", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3B4734", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#252C20", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #abbba0 · 10.35:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.03:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.35:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #abbba0 as text scores 2.03:1 on white and 10.35:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3E4A35 at 4.63:1.

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
#687D59 · 4.50:1
AA on white−26% L
#687D59
The quick fox
#4D5C42 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−37% L
#4D5C42
The quick fox
#abbba0 · 10.35:1
AA on blackalready passes
#abbba0
The quick fox
#abbba0 · 10.35:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#abbba0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #839B73 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
#abbba0 on white: 2.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#abbba0 on black: 10.35:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #abbba0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #abbba0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.03:1AaAa
Slate 501.94:1AaAa
Slate 1001.85:1AaAa
Slate 2001.65:1AaAa
Slate 3001.37:1AaAa
Slate 4001.26:1AaAa
Slate 5002.34:1AaAa
Slate 6003.73:1AaAa
Slate 7005.10:1AaAa
Slate 8007.21:1AaAa
Slate 9008.80:1AaAa
Black10.35:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BEB79F
deuteranopia · #BBB5A1
tritanopia · #ACB9B3

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. #abbba0 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.

#F7F8F6
#EFF2EE
#DDE3D9
#C5D0BE
#abbba0
#8BA17C
#778F66
#637755
#4F5F44
#3B4734
#252C20
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7F8F6Darkest = 950 · #252C20Text step on white = 700
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 0.010 132.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.017 132.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.025 132.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.032 132.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.038 132.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.042 132.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.042 132.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.039 132.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.035 132.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.029 132.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.023 132.5);
}

Colors that work with #abbba0

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#F7F9F6
Tinted page background
Border#D5DDCF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6F8660
Captions on the surface
Accent#5F517B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3E4A35
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2F4F0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2117
Dark-mode background
Hover#98AC8B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#869D76
Two steps down
Disabled#E5EAE1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B4CBA5
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 #abbba0

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 #3E4A35
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #839B73

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
  • Weight32/100
  • 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#B0A0BB
Analogous left#B8BBA0
Analogous right#A0BBA2
Split-complement 1#A2A0BB
Split-complement 2#BBA0B8
Triadic 1#A0ABBB
Triadic 2#BBA0AB
Tetradic#A0B8BB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°96°

#abbba0 sits at 96°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.1%
Green73.3%
Blue62.7%
R · 0–255
171
0xab
G · 0–255
187
0xbb
B · 0–255
160
0xa0

CMYK percentages

Cyan8.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow14.4%
Key (black)26.7%

Total ink coverage is 50%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#abbba0 text on a black background

contrast 10.35:1

Card sample

#abbba0 text on a white background

contrast 2.03:1

Card sample

#abbba0 on grey

1.85:1

#abbba0 on its own surface

1.92:1

#abbba0 on its dark surface

8.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #abbba0;
Background color
Panel with #abbba0 background
background-color: #abbba0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #abbba0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(171, 187, 160, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(171, 187, 160, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #abbba0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #abbba0, #A0BBA7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abbba0, #A0BBAE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #abbba0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #abbba0;
caret-color: #abbba0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #abbba0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2F4F0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #abbba0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#abbba0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #abbba0 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(171, 187, 160, 0.5)
rgb(171 187 160 / 50%)
#abbba080
hsl(96 17% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #abbba0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#abbba01a#F7F8F6
20%#abbba033#EEF1EC
40%#abbba066#DDE4D9
60%#abbba099#CDD6C6
80%#abbba0cc#BCC9B3

Gradients from #abbba0

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, #CAD4C4, #abbba0 45%, #3E4A35);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #abbba0, #8EAE99);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abbba0, #B0A0BB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DAE1D5 0%, #abbba0 45%, #3E4A35 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F9F6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D0D0BE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B2C8B6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3E4A35 0%, transparent 65%), #abbba0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #abbba0

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.

#abbba0 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 10.35:1.

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.

#abbba0, answered

What color is #abbba0?

#abbba0 is a light soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.4). It sits at 96° on the hue wheel with 17% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #abbba0?

rgb(171, 187, 160) — 171 red, 187 green and 160 blue out of 255, or 67.1% / 73.3% / 62.7% by channel.

What is #abbba0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(96, 17%, 68%) and hsv(96, 14%, 73%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #abbba0 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4674 and perceived brightness is 70%, so black text on it reaches 10.35:1.

Should I use black or white text on #abbba0?

Black. It scores 10.35:1 against #abbba0, versus 2.03:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #abbba0 accessible on a white background?

#abbba0 on white scores 2.03:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #687D59 to reach 4.5:1, or #4D5C42 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #abbba0?

#B0A0BB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A2A0BB and #BBA0B8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #abbba0?

For interface work: #F7F9F6 as the surface, #D5DDCF for borders, #6F8660 for secondary text, #5F517B as an accent and #3E4A35 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B8BBA0 and #A0BBA2 stays calm, while #B0A0BB is the loudest partner.

What is #abbba0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(9%, 0%, 14%, 27%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #abbba0 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B5BBA0; nudged cooler, #9FBD9E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #abbba0?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 18.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #abbba0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #abbba0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#abbba0] or text-[#abbba0], 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 #abbba0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(171, 187, 160, 0.5), or #abbba080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5DDD0; over black, #565E50.

Is #abbba0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 9.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #abbba0 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 #abbba0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CAD4C4, #abbba0 45%, #3E4A35). For more colour, a short hue run to #8EAE99 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #abbba0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #abbba0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.