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#afd75e

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

Token name suggestion: Signal Basil

RGB
175, 215, 94
HSL
80°, 60%, 61%
CMYK
19, 0, 56, 16
Luminance
0.5852

#afd75e is a balanced vivid green, 80° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.70:1). As text it scores 1.65:1 on white — use #618120 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 60% 61%)rgb(175 215 94)Base step 500AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #afd75e is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#afd75e
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
61%
balanced
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5852
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.70:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 4.6
Chroma
62.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.826
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 7
Web-safe
#99CC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness61%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #afd75e.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool42% 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
Red16%
Green83%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#afd75e
HEX (8-digit)#afd75eff
RGBrgb(175, 215, 94)
RGBArgba(175, 215, 94, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 60%, 61%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 56%, 84%)
HWBhwb(80 37% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(19%, 0%, 56%, 16%)
LABlab(81.0 -31.4 54.4)
LCHlch(81.0 62.9 120.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.826 0.155 125.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.00, 58.52, 19.57)
Decimal11523934
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.843 0.369)
Web-safe#99CC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #afd75e;
background-color: #afd75e;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #afd75e;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#afd75e] bg-[#afd75e]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #afd75e;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.843, blue: 0.369)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.843, blue: 0.369, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AFD75E</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAFD75E)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAFD75E)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(94, 215, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 215, 94)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 215, 94)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 215, 94)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.8431f, 0.3686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,215,94}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #afd75e 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #afd75e 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4D6619, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #afd75e 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: #F9FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F2F7E9;
  --brand-200: #E4EFCC;
  --brand-300: #D2E9A5;
  --brand-400: #BCDE78;
  --brand-500: #afd75e;
  --brand-600: #93C431;
  --brand-700: #7BA329;
  --brand-800: #628320;
  --brand-900: #495F1B;
  --brand-950: #2D3B11;
  --brand: #afd75e;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #A1D041;
  --brand-pressed: #8FBE2F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F2F7E9',
        200: '#E4EFCC',
        300: '#D2E9A5',
        400: '#BCDE78',
        500: '#afd75e',
        600: '#93C431',
        700: '#7BA329',
        800: '#628320',
        900: '#495F1B',
        950: '#2D3B11',
        DEFAULT: '#afd75e',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F2F7E9,
  '200': #E4EFCC,
  '300': #D2E9A5,
  '400': #BCDE78,
  '500': #afd75e,
  '600': #93C431,
  '700': #7BA329,
  '800': #628320,
  '900': #495F1B,
  '950': #2D3B11,
);
$brand-base: #afd75e;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E4EFCC", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D2E9A5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BCDE78", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#afd75e", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#93C431", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7BA329", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#628320", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#495F1B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2D3B11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #afd75e · 12.70:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.65:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.70:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #afd75e as text scores 1.65:1 on white and 12.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4D6619 at 3.93:1.

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
#618120 · 4.50:1
AA on white−29% L
#618120
The quick fox
#486018 · 7.09:1
AAA on white−37% L
#486018
The quick fox
#afd75e · 12.70:1
AA on blackalready passes
#afd75e
The quick fox
#afd75e · 12.70:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#afd75e

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #779E27 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
#afd75e on white: 1.65:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#afd75e on black: 12.70:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #afd75e as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #afd75e.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.65:1AaAa
Slate 501.58:1AaAa
Slate 1001.51:1AaAa
Slate 2001.34:1AaAa
Slate 3001.11:1AaAa
Slate 4001.55:1AaAa
Slate 5002.88:1AaAa
Slate 6004.58:1AaAa
Slate 7006.26:1AaAa
Slate 8008.85:1AaAa
Slate 90010.80:1AaAa
Black12.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E2CB52
deuteranopia · #DCC966
tritanopia · #B6CEBC

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. #afd75e 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.

#F9FBF4
#F2F7E9
#E4EFCC
#D2E9A5
#BCDE78
#afd75e
#93C431
#7BA329
#628320
#495F1B
#2D3B11
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #2D3B11Text 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 0.039 125.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.062 125.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.093 125.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.121 125.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.143 125.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.155 125.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.155 125.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.146 125.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.130 125.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.109 125.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.085 125.0);
}

Colors that work with #afd75e

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DEEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#809B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#645ADB
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4D6619
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#A1D041
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8FBE2F
Two steps down
Disabled#D6DCC9
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BAE465
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
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #afd75e

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 #4D6619
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #779E27

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight39/100
  • 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#865ED7
Analogous left#D7C25E
Analogous right#73D75E
Split-complement 1#5E73D7
Split-complement 2#C25ED7
Triadic 1#5EAFD7
Triadic 2#D75EAF
Tetradic#5ED7C2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#afd75e sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green84.3%
Blue36.9%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
215
0xd7
B · 0–255
94
0x5e

CMYK percentages

Cyan18.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow56.3%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 91%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#afd75e text on a black background

contrast 12.70:1

Card sample

#afd75e text on a white background

contrast 1.65:1

Card sample

#afd75e on grey

1.51:1

#afd75e on its own surface

1.57:1

#afd75e on its dark surface

9.62:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #afd75e;
Background color
Panel with #afd75e background
background-color: #afd75e;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #afd75e;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 215, 94, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 215, 94, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #afd75e;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #afd75e, #5ED75E);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afd75e, #5ED77C);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #afd75e;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #afd75e;
caret-color: #afd75e;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #afd75e;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #afd75e;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#afd75e 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #afd75e 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, 215, 94, 0.5)
rgb(175 215 94 / 50%)
#afd75e80
hsl(80 60% 61% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #afd75e 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#afd75e1a#F7FBEF
20%#afd75e33#EFF7DF
40%#afd75e66#DFEFBF
60%#afd75e99#CFE79E
80%#afd75ecc#BFDF7E

Gradients from #afd75e

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, #C7E38F, #afd75e 45%, #4D6619);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #afd75e, #46D151);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afd75e, #865ED7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D4E9A8 0%, #afd75e 45%, #4D6619 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E1CA87 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #7FDD77 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4D6619 0%, transparent 65%), #afd75e;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #afd75e

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.

#afd75e 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

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 12.70:1.

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.

#afd75e, answered

What color is #afd75e?

#afd75e is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 4.6). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 61% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #afd75e?

rgb(175, 215, 94) — 175 red, 215 green and 94 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 84.3% / 36.9% by channel.

What is #afd75e in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 60%, 61%) and hsv(80, 56%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #afd75e a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5852 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 12.70:1.

Should I use black or white text on #afd75e?

Black. It scores 12.70:1 against #afd75e, versus 1.65:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #afd75e accessible on a white background?

#afd75e on white scores 1.65:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #618120 to reach 4.5:1, or #486018 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #afd75e?

#865ED7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #5E73D7 and #C25ED7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #afd75e?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #809B4B for secondary text, #645ADB as an accent and #4D6619 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D7C25E and #73D75E stays calm, while #865ED7 is the loudest partner.

What is #afd75e in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(19%, 0%, 56%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #afd75e warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 42 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D7D35E; nudged cooler, #82D95C.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #afd75e?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #afd75e as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #afd75e in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#afd75e] or text-[#afd75e], 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 #afd75e with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 215, 94, 0.5), or #afd75e80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D7EBAF; over black, #586C2F.

Is #afd75e a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC66, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #afd75e 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 #afd75e?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C7E38F, #afd75e 45%, #4D6619). For more colour, a short hue run to #46D151 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #afd75e in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #afd75e at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.