Skip to content
green · warm

#afe71c

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

Token name suggestion: True Basil

RGB
175, 231, 28
HSL
77°, 81%, 51%
CMYK
24, 0, 88, 9
Luminance
0.6635

#afe71c is a balanced electric green, 77° on the wheel and 39/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.27:1). As text it scores 1.47:1 on white — use #61800E instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(77 81% 51%)rgb(175 231 28)Base step 600AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #afe71c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#afe71c
Hue
77°
green
Saturation
81%
electric
Lightness
51%
balanced
Brightness
91%
HSV value
Perceived
79%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6635
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
39/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
14.27:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
90.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.858
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 7.9
Web-safe
#99FF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue77° of 360°
Saturation81%
Lightness51%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #afe71c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool39% 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
Red14%
Green86%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#afe71c
HEX (8-digit)#afe71cff
RGBrgb(175, 231, 28)
RGBArgba(175, 231, 28, 1)
HSLhsl(77, 81%, 51%)
HSV / HSBhsv(77, 88%, 91%)
HWBhwb(77 11% 9%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 0%, 88%, 9%)
LABlab(85.2 -42.2 80.0)
LCHlch(85.2 90.5 117.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.858 0.212 125.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(46.47, 66.35, 11.46)
Decimal11527964
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.906 0.110)
Web-safe#99FF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #afe71c;
background-color: #afe71c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #afe71c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#afe71c] bg-[#afe71c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #afe71c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.906, blue: 0.110)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.906, blue: 0.110, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AFE71C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAFE71C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAFE71C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(28, 231, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 231, 28)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 231, 28)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 231, 28)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.9059f, 0.1098f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,231,28}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #afe71c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #afe71c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#57730C, #E7EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #afe71c 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: #FAFCF3;
  --brand-100: #F4F9E6;
  --brand-200: #E8F5C6;
  --brand-300: #DBF49A;
  --brand-400: #C9EF67;
  --brand-500: #B7EA34;
  --brand-600: #afe71c;
  --brand-700: #8BB913;
  --brand-800: #6F9410;
  --brand-900: #526B10;
  --brand-950: #33430A;
  --brand: #afe71c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E0EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #98CA15;
  --brand-pressed: #80AA12;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #202414;
    --brand-ink: #E7EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAFCF3',
        100: '#F4F9E6',
        200: '#E8F5C6',
        300: '#DBF49A',
        400: '#C9EF67',
        500: '#B7EA34',
        600: '#afe71c',
        700: '#8BB913',
        800: '#6F9410',
        900: '#526B10',
        950: '#33430A',
        DEFAULT: '#afe71c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAFCF3,
  '100': #F4F9E6,
  '200': #E8F5C6,
  '300': #DBF49A,
  '400': #C9EF67,
  '500': #B7EA34,
  '600': #afe71c,
  '700': #8BB913,
  '800': #6F9410,
  '900': #526B10,
  '950': #33430A,
);
$brand-base: #afe71c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FAFCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4F9E6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E8F5C6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DBF49A", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C9EF67", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B7EA34", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#afe71c", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#8BB913", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6F9410", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#526B10", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#33430A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #afe71c · 14.27:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.47:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.27:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #afe71c as text scores 1.47:1 on white and 14.27:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #57730C at 3.69:1.

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
#61800E · 4.56:1
AA on white−23% L
#61800E
The quick fox
#48600A · 7.11:1
AAA on white−30% L
#48600A
The quick fox
#afe71c · 14.27:1
AA on blackalready passes
#afe71c
The quick fox
#afe71c · 14.27:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#afe71c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #79A111 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
#afe71c on white: 1.47:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#afe71c on black: 14.27:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #afe71c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #afe71c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.47:1AaAa
Slate 501.41:1AaAa
Slate 1001.34:1AaAa
Slate 2001.19:1AaAa
Slate 3001.01:1AaAa
Slate 4001.74:1AaAa
Slate 5003.23:1AaAa
Slate 6005.15:1AaAa
Slate 7007.04:1AaAa
Slate 8009.94:1AaAa
Slate 90012.13:1AaAa
Black14.27:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F4D700
deuteranopia · #ECD439
tritanopia · #B7DBC5

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. #afe71c is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FAFCF3
#F4F9E6
#E8F5C6
#DBF49A
#C9EF67
#B7EA34
#afe71c
#8BB913
#6F9410
#526B10
#33430A
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FAFCF3Darkest = 950 · #33430AText 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 0.053 125.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.085 125.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.127 125.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.165 125.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.195 125.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.212 125.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.212 125.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.199 125.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.178 125.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.148 125.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.117 125.6);
}

Colors that work with #afe71c

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E0EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#859B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1D17EC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#57730C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F7FDE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#202414
Dark-mode background
Hover#98CA15
One step down in lightness
Pressed#80AA12
Two steps down
Disabled#C0C9AA
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BBF523
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 #afe71c

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 #57730C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #79A111

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight49/100
  • 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#541CE7
Analogous left#E7BA1C
Analogous right#49E71C
Split-complement 1#1C49E7
Split-complement 2#BA1CE7
Triadic 1#1CAFE7
Triadic 2#E71CAF
Tetradic#1CE7BA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°77°

#afe71c sits at 77°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green90.6%
Blue11.0%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
231
0xe7
B · 0–255
28
0x1c

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow87.9%
Key (black)9.4%

Total ink coverage is 122%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#afe71c text on a black background

contrast 14.27:1

Card sample

#afe71c text on a white background

contrast 1.47:1

Card sample

#afe71c on grey

1.34:1

#afe71c on its own surface

1.40:1

#afe71c on its dark surface

10.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #afe71c;
Background color
Panel with #afe71c background
background-color: #afe71c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #afe71c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 231, 28, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 231, 28, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #afe71c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #afe71c, #28E71C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afe71c, #1CE743);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #afe71c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #afe71c;
caret-color: #afe71c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #afe71c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F7FDE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #afe71c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#afe71c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #afe71c 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, 231, 28, 0.5)
rgb(175 231 28 / 50%)
#afe71c80
hsl(77 81% 51% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #afe71c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#afe71c1a#F7FDE8
20%#afe71c33#EFFAD2
40%#afe71c66#DFF5A4
60%#afe71c99#CFF177
80%#afe71ccc#BFEC49

Gradients from #afe71c

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, #C2ED53, #afe71c 45%, #57730C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #afe71c, #16CF1B);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afe71c, #541CE7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #CCF06F 0%, #afe71c 45%, #57730C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #ECBA4A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #51EA38 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #57730C 0%, transparent 65%), #afe71c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #afe71c

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.

#afe71c 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

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 14.27:1.

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.

#afe71c, answered

What color is #afe71c?

#afe71c is a balanced electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 77° on the hue wheel with 81% saturation and 51% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #afe71c?

rgb(175, 231, 28) — 175 red, 231 green and 28 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 90.6% / 11% by channel.

What is #afe71c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(77, 81%, 51%) and hsv(77, 88%, 91%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #afe71c a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6635 and perceived brightness is 79%, so black text on it reaches 14.27:1.

Should I use black or white text on #afe71c?

Black. It scores 14.27:1 against #afe71c, versus 1.47:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #afe71c accessible on a white background?

#afe71c on white scores 1.47:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #61800E to reach 4.5:1, or #48600A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #afe71c?

#541CE7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #1C49E7 and #BA1CE7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #afe71c?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E0EDC0 for borders, #859B4B for secondary text, #1D17EC as an accent and #57730C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E7BA1C and #49E71C stays calm, while #541CE7 is the loudest partner.

What is #afe71c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 0%, 88%, 9%). 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 #afe71c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 39 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E7D51C; nudged cooler, #64EA1A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #afe71c?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 7.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #afe71c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #afe71c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#afe71c] or text-[#afe71c], 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 #afe71c with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 231, 28, 0.5), or #afe71c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D7F38E; over black, #58740E.

Is #afe71c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF33, ΔE2000 6.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #afe71c 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 #afe71c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C2ED53, #afe71c 45%, #57730C). For more colour, a short hue run to #16CF1B keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #afe71c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #afe71c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.