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#ade332

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

Token name suggestion: Signal Basil

RGB
173, 227, 50
HSL
78°, 76%, 54%
CMYK
24, 0, 78, 11
Luminance
0.6405

#ade332 is a balanced electric green, 78° on the wheel and 40/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.81:1). As text it scores 1.52:1 on white — use #5E7F11 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(78 76% 54%)rgb(173 227 50)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ade332 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ade332
Hue
78°
green
Saturation
76%
electric
Lightness
54%
balanced
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6405
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
40/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.81:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 5.4
Chroma
84.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.848
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 6.9
Web-safe
#99CC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue78° of 360°
Saturation76%
Lightness54%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ade332.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool40% 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
Red14%
Green86%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#ade332
HEX (8-digit)#ade332ff
RGBrgb(173, 227, 50)
RGBArgba(173, 227, 50, 1)
HSLhsl(78, 76%, 54%)
HSV / HSBhsv(78, 78%, 89%)
HWBhwb(78 20% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 0%, 78%, 11%)
LABlab(84.0 -40.5 73.9)
LCHlch(84.0 84.3 118.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.848 0.201 125.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(45.28, 64.05, 12.99)
Decimal11395890
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.890 0.196)
Web-safe#99CC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ade332;
background-color: #ade332;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ade332;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ade332] bg-[#ade332]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ade332;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.890, blue: 0.196)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.890, blue: 0.196, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADE332</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADE332)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADE332)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(50, 227, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 227, 50)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 227, 50)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 227, 50)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.8902f, 0.1961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,227,50}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ade332 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ade332 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#53700F, #E6EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ade332 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: #F9FCF3;
  --brand-100: #F3F9E7;
  --brand-200: #E6F4C8;
  --brand-300: #D8F29C;
  --brand-400: #C4EB6B;
  --brand-500: #ade332;
  --brand-600: #9FD71D;
  --brand-700: #84B418;
  --brand-800: #6A9014;
  --brand-900: #4E6812;
  --brand-950: #31410C;
  --brand: #ade332;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DFEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9CD41D;
  --brand-pressed: #85B519;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E6EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FCF3',
        100: '#F3F9E7',
        200: '#E6F4C8',
        300: '#D8F29C',
        400: '#C4EB6B',
        500: '#ade332',
        600: '#9FD71D',
        700: '#84B418',
        800: '#6A9014',
        900: '#4E6812',
        950: '#31410C',
        DEFAULT: '#ade332',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FCF3,
  '100': #F3F9E7,
  '200': #E6F4C8,
  '300': #D8F29C,
  '400': #C4EB6B,
  '500': #ade332,
  '600': #9FD71D,
  '700': #84B418,
  '800': #6A9014,
  '900': #4E6812,
  '950': #31410C,
);
$brand-base: #ade332;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3F9E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E6F4C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D8F29C", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C4EB6B", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#ade332", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9FD71D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#84B418", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6A9014", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4E6812", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#31410C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ade332 · 13.81:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.52:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.81:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ade332 as text scores 1.52:1 on white and 13.81:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #53700F at 3.74:1.

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
#5E7F11 · 4.65:1
AA on white−26% L
#5E7F11
The quick fox
#46600D · 7.14:1
AAA on white−33% L
#46600D
The quick fox
#ade332 · 13.81:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ade332
The quick fox
#ade332 · 13.81:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ade332

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #759E16 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
#ade332 on white: 1.52:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ade332 on black: 13.81:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ade332 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ade332.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.52:1AaAa
Slate 501.45:1AaAa
Slate 1001.39:1AaAa
Slate 2001.23:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.69:1AaAa
Slate 5003.13:1AaAa
Slate 6004.98:1AaAa
Slate 7006.81:1AaAa
Slate 8009.62:1AaAa
Slate 90011.74:1AaAa
Black13.81:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFD400
deuteranopia · #E8D145
tritanopia · #B5D8C3

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. #ade332 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.

#F9FCF3
#F3F9E7
#E6F4C8
#D8F29C
#C4EB6B
#ade332
#9FD71D
#84B418
#6A9014
#4E6812
#31410C
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FCF3Darkest = 950 · #31410CText 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 0.050 125.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.080 125.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.120 125.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.156 125.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.184 125.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.201 125.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.201 125.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.188 125.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.168 125.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.140 125.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.110 125.9);
}

Colors that work with #ade332

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#DFEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#829B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#372DE8
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#53700F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FCE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9CD41D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#85B519
Two steps down
Disabled#C8D0B5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B8F039
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 #ade332

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 #53700F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #759E16

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
  • Weight46/100
  • 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#6832E3
Analogous left#E3C032
Analogous right#54E332
Split-complement 1#3254E3
Split-complement 2#C032E3
Triadic 1#32ADE3
Triadic 2#E332AD
Tetradic#32E3C0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°78°

#ade332 sits at 78°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green89.0%
Blue19.6%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
50
0x32

CMYK percentages

Cyan23.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow78.0%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 113%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ade332 text on a black background

contrast 13.81:1

Card sample

#ade332 text on a white background

contrast 1.52:1

Card sample

#ade332 on grey

1.39:1

#ade332 on its own surface

1.45:1

#ade332 on its dark surface

10.46:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ade332;
Background color
Panel with #ade332 background
background-color: #ade332;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ade332;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 227, 50, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 227, 50, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ade332;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ade332, #37E332);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade332, #32E359);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ade332;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ade332;
caret-color: #ade332;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ade332;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FCE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ade332;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ade332 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ade332 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(173, 227, 50, 0.5)
rgb(173 227 50 / 50%)
#ade33280
hsl(78 76% 54% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ade332 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ade3321a#F7FCEB
20%#ade33233#EFF9D6
40%#ade33266#DEF4AD
60%#ade33299#CEEE84
80%#ade332cc#BDE95B

Gradients from #ade332

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, #C3EA68, #ade332 45%, #53700F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ade332, #1ED928);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade332, #6832E3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CDEE83 0%, #ade332 45%, #53700F 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%, #E9C35F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5EE74D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #53700F 0%, transparent 65%), #ade332;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ade332

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.

#ade332 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 13.81:1.

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.

#ade332, answered

What color is #ade332?

#ade332 is a balanced electric green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 5.4). It sits at 78° on the hue wheel with 76% saturation and 54% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #ade332?

rgb(173, 227, 50) — 173 red, 227 green and 50 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 89% / 19.6% by channel.

What is #ade332 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(78, 76%, 54%) and hsv(78, 78%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ade332 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6405 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 13.81:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ade332?

Black. It scores 13.81:1 against #ade332, versus 1.52:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ade332 accessible on a white background?

#ade332 on white scores 1.52:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5E7F11 to reach 4.5:1, or #46600D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ade332?

#6832E3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #3254E3 and #C032E3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ade332?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #DFEDC0 for borders, #829B4B for secondary text, #372DE8 as an accent and #53700F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E3C032 and #54E332 stays calm, while #6832E3 is the loudest partner.

What is #ade332 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 0%, 78%, 11%). 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 #ade332 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 40 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E3D832; nudged cooler, #6BE530.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ade332?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 6.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ade332 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ade332 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ade332] or text-[#ade332], 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 #ade332 with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 227, 50, 0.5), or #ade33280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6F199; over black, #577219.

Is #ade332 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC33, ΔE2000 5.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ade332 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 #ade332?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C3EA68, #ade332 45%, #53700F). For more colour, a short hue run to #1ED928 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ade332 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ade332 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.