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#abd039

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Fern

RGB
171, 208, 57
HSL
75°, 62%, 52%
CMYK
18, 0, 73, 18
Luminance
0.5407

#abd039 is a balanced vivid green, 75° on the wheel and 37/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.81:1). As text it scores 1.78:1 on white — use #657C1D instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(75 62% 52%)rgb(171 208 57)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #abd039 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#abd039
Hue
75°
green
Saturation
62%
vivid
Lightness
52%
balanced
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
73%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5407
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
37/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.81:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 2.7
Chroma
74.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.804
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 5.7
Web-safe
#99CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue75° of 360°
Saturation62%
Lightness52%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #abd039.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool37% 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
Red16%
Green83%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#abd039
HEX (8-digit)#abd039ff
RGBrgb(171, 208, 57)
RGBArgba(171, 208, 57, 1)
HSLhsl(75, 62%, 52%)
HSV / HSBhsv(75, 73%, 82%)
HWBhwb(75 22% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 0%, 73%, 18%)
LABlab(78.5 -32.4 66.5)
LCHlch(78.5 74.0 115.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.804 0.176 122.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(40.09, 54.06, 12.19)
Decimal11259961
Display P3color(display-p3 0.671 0.816 0.224)
Web-safe#99CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #abd039;
background-color: #abd039;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #abd039;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#abd039] bg-[#abd039]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #abd039;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.671, green: 0.816, blue: 0.224)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.671, green: 0.816, blue: 0.224, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ABD039</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFABD039)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFABD039)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(57, 208, 171)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(171, 208, 57)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(171, 208, 57)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 171, 208, 57)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6706f, 0.8157f, 0.2235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{171,208,57}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #abd039 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #abd039 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#546718, #E7EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #abd039 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: #F3F7E8;
  --brand-200: #E7F0CC;
  --brand-300: #D9E9A4;
  --brand-400: #C5DF77;
  --brand-500: #abd039;
  --brand-600: #A1C62F;
  --brand-700: #86A527;
  --brand-800: #6B841F;
  --brand-900: #4F601B;
  --brand-950: #313C11;
  --brand: #abd039;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E2EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #97B92C;
  --brand-pressed: #7F9D25;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #202414;
    --brand-ink: #E7EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F3F7E8',
        200: '#E7F0CC',
        300: '#D9E9A4',
        400: '#C5DF77',
        500: '#abd039',
        600: '#A1C62F',
        700: '#86A527',
        800: '#6B841F',
        900: '#4F601B',
        950: '#313C11',
        DEFAULT: '#abd039',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F3F7E8,
  '200': #E7F0CC,
  '300': #D9E9A4,
  '400': #C5DF77,
  '500': #abd039,
  '600': #A1C62F,
  '700': #86A527,
  '800': #6B841F,
  '900': #4F601B,
  '950': #313C11,
);
$brand-base: #abd039;
$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": "#F3F7E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E7F0CC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D9E9A4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C5DF77", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#abd039", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A1C62F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#86A527", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6B841F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4F601B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#313C11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #abd039 · 11.81:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.78:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.81:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #abd039 as text scores 1.78:1 on white and 11.81:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #546718 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
#657C1D · 4.71:1
AA on white−22% L
#657C1D
The quick fox
#4D5F17 · 7.08:1
AAA on white−29% L
#4D5F17
The quick fox
#abd039 · 11.81:1
AA on blackalready passes
#abd039
The quick fox
#abd039 · 11.81:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#abd039

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7F9D25 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
#abd039 on white: 1.78:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#abd039 on black: 11.81:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #abd039 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #abd039.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.78:1AaAa
Slate 501.70:1AaAa
Slate 1001.62:1AaAa
Slate 2001.44:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4001.44:1AaAa
Slate 5002.68:1AaAa
Slate 6004.26:1AaAa
Slate 7005.82:1AaAa
Slate 8008.23:1AaAa
Slate 90010.04:1AaAa
Black11.81:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DCC31B
deuteranopia · #D8C246
tritanopia · #B4C5B3

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. #abd039 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
#F3F7E8
#E7F0CC
#D9E9A4
#C5DF77
#abd039
#A1C62F
#86A527
#6B841F
#4F601B
#313C11
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #313C11Text 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 0.044 122.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.070 122.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.105 122.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.137 122.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.162 122.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.176 122.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.176 122.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.165 122.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.148 122.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.123 122.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.097 122.6);
}

Colors that work with #abd039

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#E2EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#879B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3435D5
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#546718
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FAEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#202414
Dark-mode background
Hover#97B92C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7F9D25
Two steps down
Disabled#C4CBAE
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B8DF3E
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #abd039

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 #546718
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7F9D25

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
  • Weight48/100
  • 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#5E39D0
Analogous left#D0AA39
Analogous right#60D039
Split-complement 1#3960D0
Split-complement 2#AA39D0
Triadic 1#39ABD0
Triadic 2#D039AB
Tetradic#39D0AA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°75°

#abd039 sits at 75°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.1%
Green81.6%
Blue22.4%
R · 0–255
171
0xab
G · 0–255
208
0xd0
B · 0–255
57
0x39

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow72.6%
Key (black)18.4%

Total ink coverage is 109%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#abd039 text on a black background

contrast 11.81:1

Card sample

#abd039 text on a white background

contrast 1.78:1

Card sample

#abd039 on grey

1.62:1

#abd039 on its own surface

1.69:1

#abd039 on its dark surface

8.92:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #abd039;
Background color
Panel with #abd039 background
background-color: #abd039;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #abd039;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(171, 208, 57, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(171, 208, 57, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #abd039;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #abd039, #47D039);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abd039, #39D052);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #abd039;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #abd039;
caret-color: #abd039;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #abd039;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FAEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #abd039;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#abd039 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #abd039 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, 208, 57, 0.5)
rgb(171 208 57 / 50%)
#abd03980
hsl(75 62% 52% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #abd039 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#abd0391a#F7FAEB
20%#abd03933#EEF6D7
40%#abd03966#DDECB0
60%#abd03999#CDE388
80%#abd039cc#BCD961

Gradients from #abd039

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, #C0DC6B, #abd039 45%, #546718);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #abd039, #2EBE2D);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abd039, #5E39D0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CBE283 0%, #abd039 45%, #546718 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%, #DAB162 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #69D652 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #546718 0%, transparent 65%), #abd039;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #abd039

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.

#abd039 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 11.81:1.

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.

#abd039, answered

What color is #abd039?

#abd039 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 2.7). It sits at 75° on the hue wheel with 62% saturation and 52% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #abd039?

rgb(171, 208, 57) — 171 red, 208 green and 57 blue out of 255, or 67.1% / 81.6% / 22.4% by channel.

What is #abd039 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(75, 62%, 52%) and hsv(75, 73%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #abd039 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5407 and perceived brightness is 73%, so black text on it reaches 11.81:1.

Should I use black or white text on #abd039?

Black. It scores 11.81:1 against #abd039, versus 1.78:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #abd039 accessible on a white background?

#abd039 on white scores 1.78:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #657C1D to reach 4.5:1, or #4D5F17 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #abd039?

#5E39D0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3960D0 and #AA39D0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #abd039?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E2EDC0 for borders, #879B4B for secondary text, #3435D5 as an accent and #546718 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D0AA39 and #60D039 stays calm, while #5E39D0 is the loudest partner.

What is #abd039 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 0%, 73%, 18%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #abd039 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 37 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D0BE39; nudged cooler, #73D237.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #abd039?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 5.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #abd039 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #abd039 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#abd039] or text-[#abd039], 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 #abd039 with 50% opacity?

rgba(171, 208, 57, 0.5), or #abd03980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5E89C; over black, #56681D.

Is #abd039 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC33, ΔE2000 2.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #abd039 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 #abd039?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C0DC6B, #abd039 45%, #546718). For more colour, a short hue run to #2EBE2D keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #abd039 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #abd039 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.