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#abc848

a balanced, vivid green · warm · closest name: Yellow Green

Token name suggestion: True Fern

RGB
171, 200, 72
HSL
74°, 54%, 53%
CMYK
15, 0, 64, 22
Luminance
0.5043

#abc848 is a balanced vivid green, 74° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.09:1). As text it scores 1.89:1 on white — use #677B25 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(74 54% 53%)rgb(171 200 72)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #abc848 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#abc848
Hue
74°
green
Saturation
54%
vivid
Lightness
53%
balanced
Brightness
78%
HSV value
Perceived
71%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5043
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.09:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 3.8
Chroma
64.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.786
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 6.7
Web-safe
#99CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue74° of 360°
Saturation54%
Lightness53%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #abc848.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red17%
Green82%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#abc848
HEX (8-digit)#abc848ff
RGBrgb(171, 200, 72)
RGBArgba(171, 200, 72, 1)
HSLhsl(74, 54%, 53%)
HSV / HSBhsv(74, 64%, 78%)
HWBhwb(74 28% 22%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 0%, 64%, 22%)
LABlab(76.3 -27.7 58.7)
LCHlch(76.3 64.8 115.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.786 0.156 121.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(38.62, 50.43, 13.83)
Decimal11257928
Display P3color(display-p3 0.671 0.784 0.282)
Web-safe#99CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #abc848;
background-color: #abc848;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #abc848;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#abc848] bg-[#abc848]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #abc848;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.671, green: 0.784, blue: 0.282)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.671, green: 0.784, blue: 0.282, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ABC848</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFABC848)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFABC848)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(72, 200, 171)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(171, 200, 72)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(171, 200, 72)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 171, 200, 72)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6706f, 0.7843f, 0.2824f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{171,200,72}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #abc848 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #abc848 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#52621D, #E8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #abc848 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: #F9FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F3F6E9;
  --brand-200: #E6EECE;
  --brand-300: #D7E5A9;
  --brand-400: #C4D87E;
  --brand-500: #abc848;
  --brand-600: #9EBC39;
  --brand-700: #849D2F;
  --brand-800: #6A7E26;
  --brand-900: #4E5B1F;
  --brand-950: #313913;
  --brand: #abc848;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E2ECC0;
  --brand-hover: #99B637;
  --brand-pressed: #829A2E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F3F6E9',
        200: '#E6EECE',
        300: '#D7E5A9',
        400: '#C4D87E',
        500: '#abc848',
        600: '#9EBC39',
        700: '#849D2F',
        800: '#6A7E26',
        900: '#4E5B1F',
        950: '#313913',
        DEFAULT: '#abc848',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F3F6E9,
  '200': #E6EECE,
  '300': #D7E5A9,
  '400': #C4D87E,
  '500': #abc848,
  '600': #9EBC39,
  '700': #849D2F,
  '800': #6A7E26,
  '900': #4E5B1F,
  '950': #313913,
);
$brand-base: #abc848;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3F6E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6EECE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D7E5A9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C4D87E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#abc848", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9EBC39", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#849D2F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6A7E26", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4E5B1F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#313913", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #abc848 · 11.09:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.89:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.09:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #abc848 as text scores 1.89:1 on white and 11.09:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #52621D at 3.55:1.

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
#677B25 · 4.73:1
AA on white−22% L
#677B25
The quick fox
#505F1D · 7.01:1
AAA on white−29% L
#505F1D
The quick fox
#abc848 · 11.09:1
AA on blackalready passes
#abc848
The quick fox
#abc848 · 11.09:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#abc848

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #859E2F 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
#abc848 on white: 1.89:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#abc848 on black: 11.09:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #abc848 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #abc848.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.89:1AaAa
Slate 501.81:1AaAa
Slate 1001.73:1AaAa
Slate 2001.54:1AaAa
Slate 3001.28:1AaAa
Slate 4001.35:1AaAa
Slate 5002.51:1AaAa
Slate 6004.00:1AaAa
Slate 7005.47:1AaAa
Slate 8007.72:1AaAa
Slate 9009.43:1AaAa
Black11.09:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D4BD37
deuteranopia · #D0BC51
tritanopia · #B4BEAE

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. #abc848 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.

#F9FBF4
#F3F6E9
#E6EECE
#D7E5A9
#C4D87E
#abc848
#9EBC39
#849D2F
#6A7E26
#4E5B1F
#313913
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #313913Text 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 0.039 121.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.062 121.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.094 121.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.122 121.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.144 121.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.156 121.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.156 121.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.147 121.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.131 121.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.109 121.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.086 121.0);
}

Colors that work with #abc848

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E2ECC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#899B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#4346CD
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#52621D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6F9EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#99B637
One step down in lightness
Pressed#829A2E
Two steps down
Disabled#C8CEB2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B8D84D
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 #abc848

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 #52621D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #859E2F

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight47/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • 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#6548C8
Analogous left#C8A548
Analogous right#6BC848
Split-complement 1#486BC8
Split-complement 2#A548C8
Triadic 1#48ABC8
Triadic 2#C848AB
Tetradic#48C8A5
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°74°

#abc848 sits at 74°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.1%
Green78.4%
Blue28.2%
R · 0–255
171
0xab
G · 0–255
200
0xc8
B · 0–255
72
0x48

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow64.0%
Key (black)21.6%

Total ink coverage is 100%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#abc848 text on a black background

contrast 11.09:1

Card sample

#abc848 text on a white background

contrast 1.89:1

Card sample

#abc848 on grey

1.73:1

#abc848 on its own surface

1.80:1

#abc848 on its dark surface

8.35:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #abc848;
Background color
Panel with #abc848 background
background-color: #abc848;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #abc848;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(171, 200, 72, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(171, 200, 72, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #abc848;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #abc848, #56C848);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abc848, #48C85A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #abc848;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #abc848;
caret-color: #abc848;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #abc848;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6F9EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #abc848;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#abc848 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #abc848 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, 200, 72, 0.5)
rgb(171 200 72 / 50%)
#abc84880
hsl(74 54% 53% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #abc848 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#abc8481a#F7FAED
20%#abc84833#EEF4DA
40%#abc84866#DDE9B6
60%#abc84899#CDDE91
80%#abc848cc#BCD36D

Gradients from #abc848

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, #C1D677, #abc848 45%, #52621D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #abc848, #3BBA38);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abc848, #6548C8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CBDD8E 0%, #abc848 45%, #52621D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D4B06F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #75CF5F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #52621D 0%, transparent 65%), #abc848;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #abc848

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.

#abc848 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

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 11.09:1.

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.

#abc848, answered

What color is #abc848?

#abc848 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 3.8). It sits at 74° on the hue wheel with 54% saturation and 53% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #abc848?

rgb(171, 200, 72) — 171 red, 200 green and 72 blue out of 255, or 67.1% / 78.4% / 28.2% by channel.

What is #abc848 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(74, 54%, 53%) and hsv(74, 64%, 78%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #abc848 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5043 and perceived brightness is 71%, so black text on it reaches 11.09:1.

Should I use black or white text on #abc848?

Black. It scores 11.09:1 against #abc848, versus 1.89:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #abc848 accessible on a white background?

#abc848 on white scores 1.89:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #677B25 to reach 4.5:1, or #505F1D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #abc848?

#6548C8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #486BC8 and #A548C8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #abc848?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E2ECC0 for borders, #899B4B for secondary text, #4346CD as an accent and #52621D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C8A548 and #6BC848 stays calm, while #6548C8 is the loudest partner.

What is #abc848 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 0%, 64%, 22%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #abc848 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C8B648; nudged cooler, #7CCA45.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #abc848?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 6.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #abc848 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #abc848 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#abc848] or text-[#abc848], 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 #abc848 with 50% opacity?

rgba(171, 200, 72, 0.5), or #abc84880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5E4A4; over black, #566424.

Is #abc848 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC33, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #abc848 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 #abc848?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C1D677, #abc848 45%, #52621D). For more colour, a short hue run to #3BBA38 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #abc848 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #abc848 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.