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#adfd60

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Moss

RGB
173, 253, 96
HSL
91°, 98%, 68%
CMYK
32, 0, 62, 1
Luminance
0.7998

#adfd60 is a light electric green, 91° on the wheel and 50/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.00:1). As text it scores 1.24:1 on white — use #428502 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(91 98% 68%)rgb(173 253 96)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #adfd60 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#adfd60
Hue
91°
green
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7998
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
50/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.00:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
81.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.912
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 11.4
Web-safe
#99FF66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue91° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #adfd60.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool50% 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
Red11%
Green88%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#adfd60
HEX (8-digit)#adfd60ff
RGBrgb(173, 253, 96)
RGBArgba(173, 253, 96, 1)
HSLhsl(91, 98%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(91, 62%, 99%)
HWBhwb(91 38% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 0%, 62%, 1%)
LABlab(91.7 -48.8 65.5)
LCHlch(91.7 81.6 126.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.912 0.204 132.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(54.47, 79.98, 23.63)
Decimal11402592
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.992 0.376)
Web-safe#99FF66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #adfd60;
background-color: #adfd60;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #adfd60;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#adfd60] bg-[#adfd60]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #adfd60;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.992, blue: 0.376)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.992, blue: 0.376, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADFD60</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADFD60)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADFD60)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(96, 253, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 253, 96)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 253, 96)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 253, 96)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.9922f, 0.3765f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,253,96}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #adfd60 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #adfd60 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3F7E02, #E0EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #adfd60 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: #F7FDF1;
  --brand-100: #EFFCE4;
  --brand-200: #DDFBC1;
  --brand-300: #C6FE90;
  --brand-400: #adfd60;
  --brand-500: #8DFC21;
  --brand-600: #78F203;
  --brand-700: #64C903;
  --brand-800: #50A102;
  --brand-900: #3C7406;
  --brand-950: #264904;
  --brand: #adfd60;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D6EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9BFD3D;
  --brand-pressed: #88FC19;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C2414;
    --brand-ink: #E0EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FDF1',
        100: '#EFFCE4',
        200: '#DDFBC1',
        300: '#C6FE90',
        400: '#adfd60',
        500: '#8DFC21',
        600: '#78F203',
        700: '#64C903',
        800: '#50A102',
        900: '#3C7406',
        950: '#264904',
        DEFAULT: '#adfd60',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FDF1,
  '100': #EFFCE4,
  '200': #DDFBC1,
  '300': #C6FE90,
  '400': #adfd60,
  '500': #8DFC21,
  '600': #78F203,
  '700': #64C903,
  '800': #50A102,
  '900': #3C7406,
  '950': #264904,
);
$brand-base: #adfd60;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFFCE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDFBC1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C6FE90", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#adfd60", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8DFC21", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#78F203", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#64C903", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#50A102", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3C7406", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#264904", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #adfd60 · 17.00:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.24:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.00:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #adfd60 as text scores 1.24:1 on white and 17.00:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3F7E02 at 4.05:1.

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
#428502 · 4.58:1
AA on white−42% L
#428502
The quick fox
#316201 · 7.30:1
AAA on white−49% L
#316201
The quick fox
#adfd60 · 17.00:1
AA on blackalready passes
#adfd60
The quick fox
#adfd60 · 17.00:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#adfd60

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #54A802 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
#adfd60 on white: 1.24:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#adfd60 on black: 17.00:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #adfd60 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #adfd60.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.24:1AaAa
Slate 501.18:1AaAa
Slate 1001.13:1AaAa
Slate 2001.00:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4002.08:1AaAa
Slate 5003.85:1AaAa
Slate 6006.13:1AaAa
Slate 7008.38:1AaAa
Slate 80011.84:1AaAa
Slate 90014.45:1AaAa
Black17.00:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFEB4D
deuteranopia · #FCE56C
tritanopia · #AFF3DC

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. #adfd60 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.

#F7FDF1
#EFFCE4
#DDFBC1
#C6FE90
#adfd60
#8DFC21
#78F203
#64C903
#50A102
#3C7406
#264904
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7FDF1Darkest = 950 · #264904Text 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 0.051 132.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.081 132.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.122 132.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.159 132.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.187 132.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.204 132.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.204 132.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.191 132.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.171 132.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.143 132.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.112 132.2);
}

Colors that work with #adfd60

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#D6EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#729B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#885EFF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3F7E02
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2FFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9BFD3D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#88FC19
Two steps down
Disabled#E6ECE1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B7FF72
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 #adfd60

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 #3F7E02
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #54A802

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
  • Weight32/100
  • 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#B060FD
Analogous left#FBFD60
Analogous right#60FD61
Split-complement 1#6160FD
Split-complement 2#FD60FB
Triadic 1#60ADFD
Triadic 2#FD60AD
Tetradic#60FBFD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°91°

#adfd60 sits at 91°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green99.2%
Blue37.6%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
96
0x60

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow62.1%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 95%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#adfd60 text on a black background

contrast 17.00:1

Card sample

#adfd60 text on a white background

contrast 1.24:1

Card sample

#adfd60 on grey

1.13:1

#adfd60 on its own surface

1.17:1

#adfd60 on its dark surface

12.96:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #adfd60;
Background color
Panel with #adfd60 background
background-color: #adfd60;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #adfd60;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 253, 96, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 253, 96, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #adfd60;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #adfd60, #60FD7C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #adfd60, #60FDA3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #adfd60;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #adfd60;
caret-color: #adfd60;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #adfd60;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2FFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #adfd60;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#adfd60 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #adfd60 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, 253, 96, 0.5)
rgb(173 253 96 / 50%)
#adfd6080
hsl(91 98% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #adfd60 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#adfd601a#F7FFEF
20%#adfd6033#EFFFDF
40%#adfd6066#DEFEBF
60%#adfd6099#CEFEA0
80%#adfd60cc#BDFD80

Gradients from #adfd60

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, #CCFE9C, #adfd60 45%, #3F7E02);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #adfd60, #42FD72);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #adfd60, #B060FD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DCFEBB 0%, #adfd60 45%, #3F7E02 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%, #FEF692 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7EFD8A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3F7E02 0%, transparent 65%), #adfd60;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #adfd60

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.

#adfd60 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 17.00:1.

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.

#adfd60, answered

What color is #adfd60?

#adfd60 is a light electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 91° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #adfd60?

rgb(173, 253, 96) — 173 red, 253 green and 96 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 99.2% / 37.6% by channel.

What is #adfd60 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(91, 98%, 68%) and hsv(91, 62%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #adfd60 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7998 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 17.00:1.

Should I use black or white text on #adfd60?

Black. It scores 17.00:1 against #adfd60, versus 1.24:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #adfd60 accessible on a white background?

#adfd60 on white scores 1.24:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #428502 to reach 4.5:1, or #316201 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #adfd60?

#B060FD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6160FD and #FD60FB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #adfd60?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D6EDC0 for borders, #729B4B for secondary text, #885EFF as an accent and #3F7E02 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FBFD60 and #60FD61 stays calm, while #B060FD is the loudest partner.

What is #adfd60 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 0%, 62%, 1%). 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 #adfd60 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 50 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E6FD60; nudged cooler, #72FF5E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #adfd60?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 11.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #adfd60 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #adfd60 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#adfd60] or text-[#adfd60], 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 #adfd60 with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 253, 96, 0.5), or #adfd6080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6FEB0; over black, #577F30.

Is #adfd60 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF66, ΔE2000 2.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #adfd60 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 #adfd60?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CCFE9C, #adfd60 45%, #3F7E02). For more colour, a short hue run to #42FD72 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #adfd60 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #adfd60 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.