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#ade374

a light, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: Morning Basil

RGB
173, 227, 116
HSL
89°, 67%, 67%
CMYK
24, 0, 49, 11
Luminance
0.6508

#ade374 is a light vivid green, 89° on the wheel and 49/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.02:1). As text it scores 1.50:1 on white — use #4F811A instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(89 67% 67%)rgb(173 227 116)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ade374 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ade374
Hue
89°
green
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
67%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
79%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6508
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
49/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
14.02:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 7.3
Chroma
60.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.854
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 9.1
Web-safe
#99CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue89° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness67%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ade374.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool49% 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
Red14%
Green84%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#ade374
HEX (8-digit)#ade374ff
RGBrgb(173, 227, 116)
RGBArgba(173, 227, 116, 1)
HSLhsl(89, 67%, 67%)
HSV / HSBhsv(89, 49%, 89%)
HWBhwb(89 45% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 0%, 49%, 11%)
LABlab(84.5 -35.5 48.4)
LCHlch(84.5 60.0 126.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.854 0.152 130.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(47.85, 65.08, 26.56)
Decimal11395956
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.890 0.455)
Web-safe#99CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ade374;
background-color: #ade374;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ade374;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ade374] bg-[#ade374]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ade374;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.890, blue: 0.455)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.890, blue: 0.455, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADE374</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADE374)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADE374)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(116, 227, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 227, 116)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 227, 116)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 227, 116)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.8902f, 0.4549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,227,116}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ade374 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ade374 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#416A15, #E1EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ade374 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: #F7FBF3;
  --brand-100: #F0F8E8;
  --brand-200: #DEF1CA;
  --brand-300: #C8ECA2;
  --brand-400: #ade374;
  --brand-500: #91D944;
  --brand-600: #7DCC29;
  --brand-700: #68AA22;
  --brand-800: #53881B;
  --brand-900: #3E6318;
  --brand-950: #273E0F;
  --brand: #ade374;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D7EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9CDD56;
  --brand-pressed: #8AD739;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C2414;
    --brand-ink: #E1EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FBF3',
        100: '#F0F8E8',
        200: '#DEF1CA',
        300: '#C8ECA2',
        400: '#ade374',
        500: '#91D944',
        600: '#7DCC29',
        700: '#68AA22',
        800: '#53881B',
        900: '#3E6318',
        950: '#273E0F',
        DEFAULT: '#ade374',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FBF3,
  '100': #F0F8E8,
  '200': #DEF1CA,
  '300': #C8ECA2,
  '400': #ade374,
  '500': #91D944,
  '600': #7DCC29,
  '700': #68AA22,
  '800': #53881B,
  '900': #3E6318,
  '950': #273E0F,
);
$brand-base: #ade374;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F0F8E8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DEF1CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C8ECA2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#ade374", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#91D944", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7DCC29", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#68AA22", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#53881B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3E6318", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#273E0F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ade374 · 14.02:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.50:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.02:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ade374 as text scores 1.50:1 on white and 14.02:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #416A15 at 4.25:1.

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
#4F811A · 4.68:1
AA on white−37% L
#4F811A
The quick fox
#3C6314 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−44% L
#3C6314
The quick fox
#ade374 · 14.02:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ade374
The quick fox
#ade374 · 14.02:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ade374

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #63A321 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
#ade374 on white: 1.50:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ade374 on black: 14.02:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ade374 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ade374.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.50:1AaAa
Slate 501.43:1AaAa
Slate 1001.37:1AaAa
Slate 2001.22:1AaAa
Slate 3001.01:1AaAa
Slate 4001.71:1AaAa
Slate 5003.18:1AaAa
Slate 6005.06:1AaAa
Slate 7006.91:1AaAa
Slate 8009.76:1AaAa
Slate 90011.92:1AaAa
Black14.02:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #ECD66A
deuteranopia · #E4D27B
tritanopia · #B0DBC9

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. #ade374 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.

#F7FBF3
#F0F8E8
#DEF1CA
#C8ECA2
#ade374
#91D944
#7DCC29
#68AA22
#53881B
#3E6318
#273E0F
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7FBF3Darkest = 950 · #273E0FText 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 0.038 130.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.061 130.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.091 130.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.119 130.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.140 130.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.152 130.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.152 130.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.143 130.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.128 130.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.106 130.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.084 130.4);
}

Colors that work with #ade374

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D7EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#749B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#8D71E6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#416A15
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2FBEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9CDD56
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8AD739
Two steps down
Disabled#E4EADE
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B7EE7E
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 #ade374

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • 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 #416A15
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #63A321

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight33/100
  • 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#AA74E3
Analogous left#E3E274
Analogous right#76E374
Split-complement 1#7476E3
Split-complement 2#E274E3
Triadic 1#74ADE3
Triadic 2#E374AD
Tetradic#74E3E2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°89°

#ade374 sits at 89°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green89.0%
Blue45.5%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
116
0x74

CMYK percentages

Cyan23.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow48.9%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 84%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ade374 text on a black background

contrast 14.02:1

Card sample

#ade374 text on a white background

contrast 1.50:1

Card sample

#ade374 on grey

1.37:1

#ade374 on its own surface

1.42:1

#ade374 on its dark surface

10.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ade374;
Background color
Panel with #ade374 background
background-color: #ade374;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ade374;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 227, 116, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 227, 116, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ade374;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ade374, #74E385);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade374, #74E3A1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ade374;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ade374;
caret-color: #ade374;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ade374;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2FBEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ade374;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ade374 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ade374 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, 116, 0.5)
rgb(173 227 116 / 50%)
#ade37480
hsl(89 67% 67% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ade374 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ade3741a#F7FCF1
20%#ade37433#EFF9E3
40%#ade37466#DEF4C7
60%#ade37499#CEEEAC
80%#ade374cc#BDE990

Gradients from #ade374

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, #CBEDA7, #ade374 45%, #416A15);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ade374, #5BDE7A);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade374, #AA74E3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DAF2C1 0%, #ade374 45%, #416A15 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ECE49F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #8EE894 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #416A15 0%, transparent 65%), #ade374;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ade374

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.

#ade374 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 14.02:1.

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.

#ade374, answered

What color is #ade374?

#ade374 is a light vivid green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 7.3). It sits at 89° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 67% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #ade374?

rgb(173, 227, 116) — 173 red, 227 green and 116 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 89% / 45.5% by channel.

What is #ade374 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(89, 67%, 67%) and hsv(89, 49%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ade374 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6508 and perceived brightness is 79%, so black text on it reaches 14.02:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ade374?

Black. It scores 14.02:1 against #ade374, versus 1.50:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ade374 accessible on a white background?

#ade374 on white scores 1.50:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #4F811A to reach 4.5:1, or #3C6314 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ade374?

#AA74E3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7476E3 and #E274E3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ade374?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D7EDC0 for borders, #749B4B for secondary text, #8D71E6 as an accent and #416A15 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E3E274 and #76E374 stays calm, while #AA74E3 is the loudest partner.

What is #ade374 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 0%, 49%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ade374 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 49 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D6E374; nudged cooler, #83E572.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ade374?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 9.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ade374 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ade374 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ade374] or text-[#ade374], 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 #ade374 with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 227, 116, 0.5), or #ade37480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6F1BA; over black, #57723A.

Is #ade374 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC66, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ade374 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 #ade374?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CBEDA7, #ade374 45%, #416A15). For more colour, a short hue run to #5BDE7A keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ade374 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ade374 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.