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#afd48e

a light, soft green · neutral · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Drift Fern

RGB
175, 212, 142
HSL
92°, 45%, 69%
CMYK
18, 0, 33, 17
Luminance
0.5815

#afd48e is a light soft green, 92° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.63:1). As text it scores 1.66:1 on white — use #557F30 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(92 45% 69%)rgb(175 212 142)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #afd48e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#afd48e
Hue
92°
green
Saturation
45%
soft
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
83%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5815
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
12.63:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.8
Chroma
39.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.826
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 13.1
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue92° of 360°
Saturation45%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #afd48e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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
Red16%
Green81%
Blue3%

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

Every format

HEX#afd48e
HEX (8-digit)#afd48eff
RGBrgb(175, 212, 142)
RGBArgba(175, 212, 142, 1)
HSLhsl(92, 45%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(92, 33%, 83%)
HWBhwb(92 56% 17%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 0%, 33%, 17%)
LABlab(80.8 -24.5 30.8)
LCHlch(80.8 39.3 128.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.826 0.102 131.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(46.10, 58.15, 34.38)
Decimal11523214
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.831 0.557)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #afd48e;
background-color: #afd48e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #afd48e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#afd48e] bg-[#afd48e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #afd48e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.831, blue: 0.557)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.831, blue: 0.557, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AFD48E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAFD48E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAFD48E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(142, 212, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 212, 142)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 212, 142)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 212, 142)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.8314f, 0.5569f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,212,142}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #afd48e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #afd48e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3E5C23, #E0EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #afd48e 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: #F7FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EFF5EA;
  --brand-200: #DDEBD1;
  --brand-300: #C5E0AE;
  --brand-400: #afd48e;
  --brand-500: #8CC15C;
  --brand-600: #77B143;
  --brand-700: #639438;
  --brand-800: #50762D;
  --brand-900: #3C5624;
  --brand-950: #253616;
  --brand: #afd48e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D5E9C4;
  --brand-hover: #9DCA74;
  --brand-pressed: #8AC05A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C2414;
    --brand-ink: #E0EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FAF5',
        100: '#EFF5EA',
        200: '#DDEBD1',
        300: '#C5E0AE',
        400: '#afd48e',
        500: '#8CC15C',
        600: '#77B143',
        700: '#639438',
        800: '#50762D',
        900: '#3C5624',
        950: '#253616',
        DEFAULT: '#afd48e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FAF5,
  '100': #EFF5EA,
  '200': #DDEBD1,
  '300': #C5E0AE,
  '400': #afd48e,
  '500': #8CC15C,
  '600': #77B143,
  '700': #639438,
  '800': #50762D,
  '900': #3C5624,
  '950': #253616,
);
$brand-base: #afd48e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF5EA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDEBD1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C5E0AE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#afd48e", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#8CC15C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#77B143", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#639438", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#50762D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3C5624", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#253616", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #afd48e · 12.63:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.66:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.63:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #afd48e as text scores 1.66:1 on white and 12.63:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3E5C23 at 4.58:1.

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
#557F30 · 4.70:1
AA on white−35% L
#557F30
The quick fox
#3F5E24 · 7.40:1
AAA on white−44% L
#3F5E24
The quick fox
#afd48e · 12.63:1
AA on blackalready passes
#afd48e
The quick fox
#afd48e · 12.63:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#afd48e

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6CA03D 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
#afd48e on white: 1.66:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#afd48e on black: 12.63:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #afd48e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #afd48e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.66:1AaAa
Slate 501.59:1AaAa
Slate 1001.52:1AaAa
Slate 2001.35:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.54:1AaAa
Slate 5002.86:1AaAa
Slate 6004.56:1AaAa
Slate 7006.23:1AaAa
Slate 8008.80:1AaAa
Slate 90010.74:1AaAa
Black12.63:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DACA89
deuteranopia · #D5C891
tritanopia · #B1CEC2

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. #afd48e 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.

#F7FAF5
#EFF5EA
#DDEBD1
#C5E0AE
#afd48e
#8CC15C
#77B143
#639438
#50762D
#3C5624
#253616
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7FAF5Darkest = 950 · #253616Text step on white = 800
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 0.025 131.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.041 131.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.061 131.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.079 131.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.093 131.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.102 131.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.102 131.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.096 131.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.085 131.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.071 131.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.056 131.0);
}

Colors that work with #afd48e

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#D5E9C4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#709B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#503498
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3E5C23
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2F8ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9DCA74
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8AC05A
Two steps down
Disabled#E9EEE4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B9E096
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 #afd48e

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #3E5C23
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6CA03D

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#B38ED4
Analogous left#D2D48E
Analogous right#8ED490
Split-complement 1#908ED4
Split-complement 2#D48ED2
Triadic 1#8EAFD4
Triadic 2#D48EAF
Tetradic#8ED2D4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°92°

#afd48e sits at 92°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green83.1%
Blue55.7%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
212
0xd4
B · 0–255
142
0x8e

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow33.0%
Key (black)16.9%

Total ink coverage is 67%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#afd48e text on a black background

contrast 12.63:1

Card sample

#afd48e text on a white background

contrast 1.66:1

Card sample

#afd48e on grey

1.52:1

#afd48e on its own surface

1.58:1

#afd48e on its dark surface

9.63:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #afd48e;
Background color
Panel with #afd48e background
background-color: #afd48e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #afd48e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 212, 142, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 212, 142, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #afd48e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #afd48e, #8ED49C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afd48e, #8ED4AD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #afd48e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #afd48e;
caret-color: #afd48e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #afd48e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2F8ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #afd48e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#afd48e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #afd48e 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(175, 212, 142, 0.5)
rgb(175 212 142 / 50%)
#afd48e80
hsl(92 45% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #afd48e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#afd48e1a#F7FBF4
20%#afd48e33#EFF6E8
40%#afd48e66#DFEED2
60%#afd48e99#CFE5BB
80%#afd48ecc#BFDDA5

Gradients from #afd48e

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, #CEE5BA, #afd48e 45%, #3E5C23);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #afd48e, #78CC8F);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afd48e, #B38ED4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DEEDD0 0%, #afd48e 45%, #3E5C23 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%, #E2DFB3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A4DCAA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3E5C23 0%, transparent 65%), #afd48e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #afd48e

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.

#afd48e 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 12.63:1.

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.

#afd48e, answered

What color is #afd48e?

#afd48e is a light soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.8). It sits at 92° on the hue wheel with 45% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #afd48e?

rgb(175, 212, 142) — 175 red, 212 green and 142 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 83.1% / 55.7% by channel.

What is #afd48e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(92, 45%, 69%) and hsv(92, 33%, 83%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #afd48e a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5815 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 12.63:1.

Should I use black or white text on #afd48e?

Black. It scores 12.63:1 against #afd48e, versus 1.66:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #afd48e accessible on a white background?

#afd48e on white scores 1.66:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #557F30 to reach 4.5:1, or #3F5E24 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #afd48e?

#B38ED4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #908ED4 and #D48ED2, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #afd48e?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D5E9C4 for borders, #709B4B for secondary text, #503498 as an accent and #3E5C23 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D2D48E and #8ED490 stays calm, while #B38ED4 is the loudest partner.

What is #afd48e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 0%, 33%, 17%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #afd48e warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C9D48E; nudged cooler, #94D68C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #afd48e?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 13.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #afd48e as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #afd48e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#afd48e] or text-[#afd48e], 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 #afd48e with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 212, 142, 0.5), or #afd48e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D7EAC7; over black, #586A47.

Is #afd48e a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #afd48e 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #afd48e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CEE5BA, #afd48e 45%, #3E5C23). For more colour, a short hue run to #78CC8F keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #afd48e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #afd48e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.