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#acf74d

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

Token name suggestion: Studio Basil

RGB
172, 247, 77
HSL
87°, 91%, 64%
CMYK
30, 0, 69, 3
Luminance
0.7583

#acf74d is a balanced electric green, 87° on the wheel and 47/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.17:1). As text it scores 1.30:1 on white — use #4B8106 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(87 91% 64%)rgb(172 247 77)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #acf74d is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#acf74d
Hue
87°
green
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
64%
balanced
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7583
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
47/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.17:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 2.8
Chroma
85.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.896
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 10.1
Web-safe
#99FF66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue87° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness64%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #acf74d.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool47% 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%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#acf74d
HEX (8-digit)#acf74dff
RGBrgb(172, 247, 77)
RGBArgba(172, 247, 77, 1)
HSLhsl(87, 91%, 64%)
HSV / HSBhsv(86, 69%, 97%)
HWBhwb(87 30% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(30%, 0%, 69%, 3%)
LABlab(89.8 -48.0 70.7)
LCHlch(89.8 85.5 124.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.896 0.210 130.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(51.61, 75.83, 18.94)
Decimal11335501
Display P3color(display-p3 0.675 0.969 0.302)
Web-safe#99FF66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #acf74d;
background-color: #acf74d;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #acf74d;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#acf74d] bg-[#acf74d]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #acf74d;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.675, green: 0.969, blue: 0.302)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.675, green: 0.969, blue: 0.302, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ACF74D</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFACF74D)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFACF74D)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(77, 247, 172)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(172, 247, 77)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(172, 247, 77)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 172, 247, 77)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6745f, 0.9686f, 0.3020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{172,247,77}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #acf74d 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #acf74d 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#477A05, #E2EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #acf74d 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: #F8FDF2;
  --brand-100: #F1FBE4;
  --brand-200: #E1F9C3;
  --brand-300: #CDFA94;
  --brand-400: #acf74d;
  --brand-500: #9BF528;
  --brand-600: #87EA0B;
  --brand-700: #71C309;
  --brand-800: #5A9C07;
  --brand-900: #43710A;
  --brand-950: #2A4606;
  --brand: #acf74d;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D9EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9CF52B;
  --brand-pressed: #8CF20B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1D2414;
    --brand-ink: #E2EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F8FDF2',
        100: '#F1FBE4',
        200: '#E1F9C3',
        300: '#CDFA94',
        400: '#acf74d',
        500: '#9BF528',
        600: '#87EA0B',
        700: '#71C309',
        800: '#5A9C07',
        900: '#43710A',
        950: '#2A4606',
        DEFAULT: '#acf74d',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F8FDF2,
  '100': #F1FBE4,
  '200': #E1F9C3,
  '300': #CDFA94,
  '400': #acf74d,
  '500': #9BF528,
  '600': #87EA0B,
  '700': #71C309,
  '800': #5A9C07,
  '900': #43710A,
  '950': #2A4606,
);
$brand-base: #acf74d;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F8FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F1FBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E1F9C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#CDFA94", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#acf74d", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#9BF528", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#87EA0B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#71C309", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#5A9C07", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#43710A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2A4606", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #acf74d · 16.17:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.30:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.17:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #acf74d as text scores 1.30:1 on white and 16.17:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #477A05 at 3.99:1.

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
#4B8106 · 4.73:1
AA on white−37% L
#4B8106
The quick fox
#375F04 · 7.50:1
AAA on white−44% L
#375F04
The quick fox
#acf74d · 16.17:1
AA on blackalready passes
#acf74d
The quick fox
#acf74d · 16.17:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#acf74d

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #5FA407 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
#acf74d on white: 1.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#acf74d on black: 16.17:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #acf74d as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #acf74d.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.30:1AaAa
Slate 501.24:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.97:1AaAa
Slate 5003.66:1AaAa
Slate 6005.83:1AaAa
Slate 7007.97:1AaAa
Slate 80011.26:1AaAa
Slate 90013.74:1AaAa
Black16.17:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFE532
deuteranopia · #F8E05C
tritanopia · #B0EDD5

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. #acf74d 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.

#F8FDF2
#F1FBE4
#E1F9C3
#CDFA94
#acf74d
#9BF528
#87EA0B
#71C309
#5A9C07
#43710A
#2A4606
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F8FDF2Darkest = 950 · #2A4606Text 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 0.052 130.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.084 130.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.126 130.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.164 130.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.193 130.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.210 130.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.210 130.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.197 130.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.176 130.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.147 130.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.115 130.4);
}

Colors that work with #acf74d

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#D9EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#779B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6B49FB
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#477A05
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F4FEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1D2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9CF52B
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8CF20B
Two steps down
Disabled#DBE2D2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B6FF59
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 #acf74d

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 #477A05
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #5FA407

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
  • Weight37/100
  • 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#984DF7
Analogous left#F7ED4D
Analogous right#57F74D
Split-complement 1#4D57F7
Split-complement 2#ED4DF7
Triadic 1#4DACF7
Triadic 2#F74DAC
Tetradic#4DF7ED
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°87°

#acf74d sits at 87°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.5%
Green96.9%
Blue30.2%
R · 0–255
172
0xac
G · 0–255
247
0xf7
B · 0–255
77
0x4d

CMYK percentages

Cyan30.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow68.8%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 102%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#acf74d text on a black background

contrast 16.17:1

Card sample

#acf74d text on a white background

contrast 1.30:1

Card sample

#acf74d on grey

1.19:1

#acf74d on its own surface

1.24:1

#acf74d on its dark surface

12.30:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #acf74d;
Background color
Panel with #acf74d background
background-color: #acf74d;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #acf74d;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(172, 247, 77, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(172, 247, 77, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #acf74d;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #acf74d, #4DF75F);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acf74d, #4DF78A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #acf74d;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #acf74d;
caret-color: #acf74d;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #acf74d;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F4FEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #acf74d;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#acf74d 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #acf74d 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, 247, 77, 0.5)
rgb(172 247 77 / 50%)
#acf74d80
hsl(87 91% 64% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #acf74d 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#acf74d1a#F7FEED
20%#acf74d33#EEFDDB
40%#acf74d66#DEFCB8
60%#acf74d99#CDFA94
80%#acf74dcc#BDF971

Gradients from #acf74d

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, #C7FA87, #acf74d 45%, #477A05);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #acf74d, #30F656);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acf74d, #984DF7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D5FBA5 0%, #acf74d 45%, #477A05 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%, #F9E87E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #6AF86E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #477A05 0%, transparent 65%), #acf74d;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #acf74d

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.

#acf74d 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 16.17:1.

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.

#acf74d, answered

What color is #acf74d?

#acf74d is a balanced electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 2.8). It sits at 87° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 64% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #acf74d?

rgb(172, 247, 77) — 172 red, 247 green and 77 blue out of 255, or 67.5% / 96.9% / 30.2% by channel.

What is #acf74d in HSL and HSV?

hsl(87, 91%, 64%) and hsv(86, 69%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #acf74d a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7583 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 16.17:1.

Should I use black or white text on #acf74d?

Black. It scores 16.17:1 against #acf74d, versus 1.30:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #acf74d accessible on a white background?

#acf74d on white scores 1.30:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #4B8106 to reach 4.5:1, or #375F04 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #acf74d?

#984DF7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #4D57F7 and #ED4DF7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #acf74d?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #D9EDC0 for borders, #779B4B for secondary text, #6B49FB as an accent and #477A05 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7ED4D and #57F74D stays calm, while #984DF7 is the loudest partner.

What is #acf74d in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(30%, 0%, 69%, 3%). 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 #acf74d warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 47 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EAF74D; nudged cooler, #6CF94B.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #acf74d?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 10.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #acf74d as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #acf74d in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#acf74d] or text-[#acf74d], 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 #acf74d with 50% opacity?

rgba(172, 247, 77, 0.5), or #acf74d80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6FBA6; over black, #567C27.

Is #acf74d a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF66, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #acf74d 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 #acf74d?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C7FA87, #acf74d 45%, #477A05). For more colour, a short hue run to #30F656 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #acf74d in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #acf74d at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.