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#acf52b

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Moss

RGB
172, 245, 43
HSL
82°, 91%, 57%
CMYK
30, 0, 82, 4
Luminance
0.7425

#acf52b is a balanced electric green, 82° on the wheel and 43/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.85:1). As text it scores 1.32:1 on white — use #558106 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(82 91% 57%)rgb(172 245 43)Base step 500AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #acf52b is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#acf52b
Hue
82°
green
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
57%
balanced
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7425
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
43/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.85:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 2.1
Chroma
93.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.889
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 9.8
Web-safe
#99FF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue82° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness57%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #acf52b.

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
Red12%
Green88%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#acf52b
HEX (8-digit)#acf52bff
RGBrgb(172, 245, 43)
RGBArgba(172, 245, 43, 1)
HSLhsl(82, 91%, 57%)
HSV / HSBhsv(82, 82%, 96%)
HWBhwb(82 17% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 0%, 82%, 4%)
LABlab(89.0 -48.9 80.2)
LCHlch(89.0 93.9 121.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.889 0.224 128.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(50.10, 74.25, 13.98)
Decimal11334955
Display P3color(display-p3 0.675 0.961 0.169)
Web-safe#99FF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #acf52b;
background-color: #acf52b;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #acf52b;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#acf52b] bg-[#acf52b]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #acf52b;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.675, green: 0.961, blue: 0.169)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.675, green: 0.961, blue: 0.169, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ACF52B</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFACF52B)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFACF52B)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(43, 245, 172)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(172, 245, 43)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(172, 245, 43)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 172, 245, 43)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6745f, 0.9608f, 0.1686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{172,245,43}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #acf52b 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #acf52b 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#507A06, #E4EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #acf52b 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: #F3FBE5;
  --brand-200: #E5F9C3;
  --brand-300: #D5FA94;
  --brand-400: #C0F75E;
  --brand-500: #acf52b;
  --brand-600: #99EA0B;
  --brand-700: #80C309;
  --brand-800: #669C07;
  --brand-900: #4B700A;
  --brand-950: #2F4606;
  --brand: #acf52b;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DCEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9EF10B;
  --brand-pressed: #88CF0A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1E2414;
    --brand-ink: #E4EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FDF2',
        100: '#F3FBE5',
        200: '#E5F9C3',
        300: '#D5FA94',
        400: '#C0F75E',
        500: '#acf52b',
        600: '#99EA0B',
        700: '#80C309',
        800: '#669C07',
        900: '#4B700A',
        950: '#2F4606',
        DEFAULT: '#acf52b',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FDF2,
  '100': #F3FBE5,
  '200': #E5F9C3,
  '300': #D5FA94,
  '400': #C0F75E,
  '500': #acf52b,
  '600': #99EA0B,
  '700': #80C309,
  '800': #669C07,
  '900': #4B700A,
  '950': #2F4606,
);
$brand-base: #acf52b;
$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": "#F3FBE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5F9C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D5FA94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C0F75E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#acf52b", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#99EA0B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#80C309", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#669C07", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4B700A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2F4606", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #acf52b · 15.85:1
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 · 15.85:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #acf52b as text scores 1.32:1 on white and 15.85:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #507A06 at 3.84:1.

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
#558106 · 4.64:1
AA on white−30% L
#558106
The quick fox
#3E5F04 · 7.39:1
AAA on white−37% L
#3E5F04
The quick fox
#acf52b · 15.85:1
AA on blackalready passes
#acf52b
The quick fox
#acf52b · 15.85:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#acf52b

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6BA308 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
#acf52b on white: 1.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#acf52b on black: 15.85:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #acf52b as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #acf52b.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.32:1AaAa
Slate 501.27:1AaAa
Slate 1001.21:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.94:1AaAa
Slate 5003.59:1AaAa
Slate 6005.72:1AaAa
Slate 7007.82:1AaAa
Slate 80011.04:1AaAa
Slate 90013.47:1AaAa
Black15.85:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE300
deuteranopia · #F7DE44
tritanopia · #B2EAD1

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. #acf52b 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
#F3FBE5
#E5F9C3
#D5FA94
#C0F75E
#acf52b
#99EA0B
#80C309
#669C07
#4B700A
#2F4606
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FDF2Darkest = 950 · #2F4606Text 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 0.056 128.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.090 128.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.135 128.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.175 128.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.206 128.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.224 128.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.224 128.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.211 128.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.188 128.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.157 128.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.123 128.8);
}

Colors that work with #acf52b

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#7E9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3E27F9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#507A06
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1E2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9EF10B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#88CF0A
Two steps down
Disabled#CCD4BC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B6FF36
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 #acf52b

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 #507A06
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6BA308

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
  • Weight44/100
  • 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#742BF5
Analogous left#F5D92B
Analogous right#47F52B
Split-complement 1#2B47F5
Split-complement 2#D92BF5
Triadic 1#2BACF5
Triadic 2#F52BAC
Tetradic#2BF5D9
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°82°

#acf52b sits at 82°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.5%
Green96.1%
Blue16.9%
R · 0–255
172
0xac
G · 0–255
245
0xf5
B · 0–255
43
0x2b

CMYK percentages

Cyan29.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow82.4%
Key (black)3.9%

Total ink coverage is 116%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#acf52b text on a black background

contrast 15.85:1

Card sample

#acf52b text on a white background

contrast 1.32:1

Card sample

#acf52b on grey

1.21:1

#acf52b on its own surface

1.26:1

#acf52b on its dark surface

12.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #acf52b;
Background color
Panel with #acf52b background
background-color: #acf52b;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #acf52b;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(172, 245, 43, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(172, 245, 43, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #acf52b;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #acf52b, #2BF531);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acf52b, #2BF563);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #acf52b;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #acf52b;
caret-color: #acf52b;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #acf52b;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #acf52b;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#acf52b 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #acf52b 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(172, 245, 43, 0.5)
rgb(172 245 43 / 50%)
#acf52b80
hsl(82 91% 57% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #acf52b 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#acf52b1a#F7FEEA
20%#acf52b33#EEFDD5
40%#acf52b66#DEFBAA
60%#acf52b99#CDF980
80%#acf52bcc#BDF755

Gradients from #acf52b

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, #C3F866, #acf52b 45%, #507A06);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #acf52b, #0EF428);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acf52b, #742BF5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CEF983 0%, #acf52b 45%, #507A06 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%, #F7D55C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #52F648 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #507A06 0%, transparent 65%), #acf52b;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #acf52b

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.

#acf52b 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 15.85:1.

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.

#acf52b, answered

What color is #acf52b?

#acf52b is a balanced electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 2.1). It sits at 82° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 57% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #acf52b?

rgb(172, 245, 43) — 172 red, 245 green and 43 blue out of 255, or 67.5% / 96.1% / 16.9% by channel.

What is #acf52b in HSL and HSV?

hsl(82, 91%, 57%) and hsv(82, 82%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #acf52b a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7425 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 15.85:1.

Should I use black or white text on #acf52b?

Black. It scores 15.85:1 against #acf52b, versus 1.32:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #acf52b accessible on a white background?

#acf52b on white scores 1.32:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #558106 to reach 4.5:1, or #3E5F04 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #acf52b?

#742BF5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2B47F5 and #D92BF5, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #acf52b?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DCEDC0 for borders, #7E9B4B for secondary text, #3E27F9 as an accent and #507A06 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F5D92B and #47F52B stays calm, while #742BF5 is the loudest partner.

What is #acf52b in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 0%, 82%, 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 #acf52b 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 #F5F42B; nudged cooler, #61F729.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #acf52b?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 9.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #acf52b as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #acf52b in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#acf52b] or text-[#acf52b], 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 #acf52b with 50% opacity?

rgba(172, 245, 43, 0.5), or #acf52b80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6FA95; over black, #567B16.

Is #acf52b a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF33, ΔE2000 3.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #acf52b 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 #acf52b?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C3F866, #acf52b 45%, #507A06). For more colour, a short hue run to #0EF428 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #acf52b in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #acf52b at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.