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#adf3ab

a light, electric green · cool · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: Meadow Basil

RGB
173, 243, 171
HSL
118°, 75%, 81%
CMYK
29, 0, 30, 5
Luminance
0.7593

#adf3ab is a light electric green, 118° on the wheel and 62/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.19:1). As text it scores 1.30:1 on white — use #178713 instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(118 75% 81%)rgb(173 243 171)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #adf3ab is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#adf3ab
Hue
118°
green
Saturation
75%
electric
Lightness
81%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
85%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7593
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
62/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.19:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 4.7
Chroma
45.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.900
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 15.8
Web-safe
#99FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue118° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness81%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #adf3ab.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool62% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red12%
Green84%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#adf3ab
HEX (8-digit)#adf3abff
RGBrgb(173, 243, 171)
RGBArgba(173, 243, 171, 1)
HSLhsl(118, 75%, 81%)
HSV / HSBhsv(118, 30%, 95%)
HWBhwb(118 67% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(29%, 0%, 30%, 5%)
LABlab(89.8 -35.4 28.0)
LCHlch(89.8 45.1 141.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.900 0.120 143.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(56.63, 75.92, 50.19)
Decimal11400107
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.953 0.671)
Web-safe#99FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #adf3ab;
background-color: #adf3ab;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #adf3ab;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#adf3ab] bg-[#adf3ab]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #adf3ab;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.953, blue: 0.671)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.953, blue: 0.671, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADF3AB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADF3AB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADF3AB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(171, 243, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 243, 171)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 243, 171)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 243, 171)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.9529f, 0.6706f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,243,171}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #adf3ab 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #adf3ab 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#137010, #D3EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #adf3ab 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: #F3FCF3;
  --brand-100: #E7F9E7;
  --brand-200: #C9F4C8;
  --brand-300: #adf3ab;
  --brand-400: #6FEA6C;
  --brand-500: #3FE33B;
  --brand-600: #24D61F;
  --brand-700: #1EB319;
  --brand-800: #188F14;
  --brand-900: #156713;
  --brand-950: #0D410C;
  --brand: #adf3ab;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C1EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #8FEF8C;
  --brand-pressed: #70EA6D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142414;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF3',
        100: '#E7F9E7',
        200: '#C9F4C8',
        300: '#adf3ab',
        400: '#6FEA6C',
        500: '#3FE33B',
        600: '#24D61F',
        700: '#1EB319',
        800: '#188F14',
        900: '#156713',
        950: '#0D410C',
        DEFAULT: '#adf3ab',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF3,
  '100': #E7F9E7,
  '200': #C9F4C8,
  '300': #adf3ab,
  '400': #6FEA6C,
  '500': #3FE33B,
  '600': #24D61F,
  '700': #1EB319,
  '800': #188F14,
  '900': #156713,
  '950': #0D410C,
);
$brand-base: #adf3ab;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F9E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C9F4C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#adf3ab", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6FEA6C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3FE33B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#24D61F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1EB319", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#188F14", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#156713", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0D410C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #adf3ab · 16.19:1
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 · 16.19:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #adf3ab as text scores 1.30:1 on white and 16.19:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #137010 at 4.83:1.

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
#178713 · 4.65:1
AA on white−51% L
#178713
The quick fox
#11630E · 7.46:1
AAA on white−59% L
#11630E
The quick fox
#adf3ab · 16.19:1
AA on blackalready passes
#adf3ab
The quick fox
#adf3ab · 16.19:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#adf3ab

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1CAA18 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
#adf3ab on white: 1.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#adf3ab on black: 16.19:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #adf3ab as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #adf3ab.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.30:1AaAa
Slate 501.24:1AaAa
Slate 1001.18:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.98:1AaAa
Slate 5003.67:1AaAa
Slate 6005.84:1AaAa
Slate 7007.98:1AaAa
Slate 80011.27:1AaAa
Slate 90013.76:1AaAa
Black16.19:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F6E6A6
deuteranopia · #EBDFAF
tritanopia · #A6EFE0

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. #adf3ab is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FCF3
#E7F9E7
#C9F4C8
#adf3ab
#6FEA6C
#3FE33B
#24D61F
#1EB319
#188F14
#156713
#0D410C
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF3Darkest = 950 · #0D410CText 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 0.030 143.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.048 143.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.072 143.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.093 143.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.110 143.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.120 143.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.120 143.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.112 143.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.100 143.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.084 143.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.066 143.8);
}

Colors that work with #adf3ab

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#F4FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C1EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4D9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#8A15B7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#137010
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FCE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142414
Dark-mode background
Hover#8FEF8C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#70EA6D
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BBF9B9
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 #adf3ab

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 #137010
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #1CAA18

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight19/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#F1ABF3
Analogous left#D1F3AB
Analogous right#ABF3CD
Split-complement 1#CDABF3
Split-complement 2#F3ABD1
Triadic 1#ABADF3
Triadic 2#F3ABAD
Tetradic#ABD1F3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°118°

#adf3ab sits at 118°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green95.3%
Blue67.1%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
243
0xf3
B · 0–255
171
0xab

CMYK percentages

Cyan28.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.6%
Key (black)4.7%

Total ink coverage is 63%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#adf3ab text on a black background

contrast 16.19:1

Card sample

#adf3ab text on a white background

contrast 1.30:1

Card sample

#adf3ab on grey

1.18:1

#adf3ab on its own surface

1.23:1

#adf3ab on its dark surface

12.53:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #adf3ab;
Background color
Panel with #adf3ab background
background-color: #adf3ab;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #adf3ab;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 243, 171, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 243, 171, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #adf3ab;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #adf3ab, #ABF3D9);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #adf3ab, #ABF3EB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #adf3ab;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #adf3ab;
caret-color: #adf3ab;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #adf3ab;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FCE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #adf3ab;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#adf3ab 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #adf3ab 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, 243, 171, 0.5)
rgb(173 243 171 / 50%)
#adf3ab80
hsl(118 75% 81% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #adf3ab 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#adf3ab1a#F7FEF7
20%#adf3ab33#EFFDEE
40%#adf3ab66#DEFADD
60%#adf3ab99#CEF8CD
80%#adf3abcc#BDF5BC

Gradients from #adf3ab

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, #E1FBE1, #adf3ab 45%, #137010);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #adf3ab, #90EFD5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #adf3ab, #F1ABF3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FDF2 0%, #adf3ab 45%, #137010 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ECF9D8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C6F7E1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #137010 0%, transparent 65%), #adf3ab;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #adf3ab

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.

#adf3ab 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

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 16.19:1.

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.

#adf3ab, answered

What color is #adf3ab?

#adf3ab is a light electric green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 4.7). It sits at 118° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 81% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #adf3ab?

rgb(173, 243, 171) — 173 red, 243 green and 171 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 95.3% / 67.1% by channel.

What is #adf3ab in HSL and HSV?

hsl(118, 75%, 81%) and hsv(118, 30%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #adf3ab a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7593 and perceived brightness is 85%, so black text on it reaches 16.19:1.

Should I use black or white text on #adf3ab?

Black. It scores 16.19:1 against #adf3ab, versus 1.30:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #adf3ab accessible on a white background?

#adf3ab on white scores 1.30:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #178713 to reach 4.5:1, or #11630E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #adf3ab?

#F1ABF3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CDABF3 and #F3ABD1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #adf3ab?

For interface work: #F4FAF4 as the surface, #C1EDC0 for borders, #4D9B4B for secondary text, #8A15B7 as an accent and #137010 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D1F3AB and #ABF3CD stays calm, while #F1ABF3 is the loudest partner.

What is #adf3ab in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(29%, 0%, 30%, 5%). 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 #adf3ab warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 62 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C8F3AB; nudged cooler, #AAF4C3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #adf3ab?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 15.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #adf3ab as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #adf3ab in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#adf3ab] or text-[#adf3ab], 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 #adf3ab with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 243, 171, 0.5), or #adf3ab80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6F9D5; over black, #577A56.

Is #adf3ab a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF99, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #adf3ab 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 #adf3ab?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E1FBE1, #adf3ab 45%, #137010). For more colour, a short hue run to #90EFD5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #adf3ab in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #adf3ab at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.