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#b7df22

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

Token name suggestion: Signal Basil

RGB
183, 223, 34
HSL
73°, 75%, 50%
CMYK
18, 0, 85, 13
Luminance
0.6296

#b7df22 is a balanced vivid green, 73° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.59:1). As text it scores 1.55:1 on white — use #687F12 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(73 75% 50%)rgb(183 223 34)Base step 600AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #b7df22 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#b7df22
Hue
73°
green
Saturation
75%
vivid
Lightness
50%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
78%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6296
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.59:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 6.1
Chroma
85.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.845
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 8.1
Web-safe
#CCCC33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue73° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness50%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #b7df22.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% 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%
Green84%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#b7df22
HEX (8-digit)#b7df22ff
RGBrgb(183, 223, 34)
RGBArgba(183, 223, 34, 1)
HSLhsl(73, 75%, 50%)
HSV / HSBhsv(73, 85%, 87%)
HWBhwb(73 13% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 0%, 85%, 13%)
LABlab(83.4 -35.4 77.6)
LCHlch(83.4 85.3 114.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.845 0.198 122.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(46.21, 62.96, 11.23)
Decimal12050210
Display P3color(display-p3 0.718 0.875 0.133)
Web-safe#CCCC33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #b7df22;
background-color: #b7df22;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #b7df22;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#b7df22] bg-[#b7df22]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #b7df22;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.718, green: 0.875, blue: 0.133)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.718, green: 0.875, blue: 0.133, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#B7DF22</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFB7DF22)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFB7DF22)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(34, 223, 183)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(183, 223, 34)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(183, 223, 34)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 183, 223, 34)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7176f, 0.8745f, 0.1333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{183,223,34}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #b7df22 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #b7df22 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#5B6F10, #E8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #b7df22 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: #F5F9E7;
  --brand-200: #EAF4C8;
  --brand-300: #DFF19D;
  --brand-400: #CFEA6C;
  --brand-500: #BFE33B;
  --brand-600: #b7df22;
  --brand-700: #92B21A;
  --brand-800: #758F15;
  --brand-900: #556713;
  --brand-950: #35410C;
  --brand: #b7df22;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #9EC11C;
  --brand-pressed: #85A217;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FAFCF3',
        100: '#F5F9E7',
        200: '#EAF4C8',
        300: '#DFF19D',
        400: '#CFEA6C',
        500: '#BFE33B',
        600: '#b7df22',
        700: '#92B21A',
        800: '#758F15',
        900: '#556713',
        950: '#35410C',
        DEFAULT: '#b7df22',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FAFCF3,
  '100': #F5F9E7,
  '200': #EAF4C8,
  '300': #DFF19D,
  '400': #CFEA6C,
  '500': #BFE33B,
  '600': #b7df22,
  '700': #92B21A,
  '800': #758F15,
  '900': #556713,
  '950': #35410C,
);
$brand-base: #b7df22;
$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": "#F5F9E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EAF4C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#DFF19D", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#CFEA6C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#BFE33B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#b7df22", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#92B21A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#758F15", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#556713", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#35410C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #b7df22 · 13.59:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.55:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.59:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #b7df22 as text scores 1.55:1 on white and 13.59:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #5B6F10 at 3.65:1.

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
#687F12 · 4.53:1
AA on white−22% L
#687F12
The quick fox
#4E5F0E · 7.08:1
AAA on white−29% L
#4E5F0E
The quick fox
#b7df22 · 13.59:1
AA on blackalready passes
#b7df22
The quick fox
#b7df22 · 13.59:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#b7df22

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #819E17 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
#b7df22 on white: 1.55:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#b7df22 on black: 13.59:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #b7df22 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #b7df22.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.55:1AaAa
Slate 501.48:1AaAa
Slate 1001.41:1AaAa
Slate 2001.25:1AaAa
Slate 3001.04:1AaAa
Slate 4001.66:1AaAa
Slate 5003.08:1AaAa
Slate 6004.90:1AaAa
Slate 7006.70:1AaAa
Slate 8009.47:1AaAa
Slate 90011.55:1AaAa
Black13.59:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EDD100
deuteranopia · #E8D039
tritanopia · #C1D3BE

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. #b7df22 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
#F5F9E7
#EAF4C8
#DFF19D
#CFEA6C
#BFE33B
#b7df22
#92B21A
#758F15
#556713
#35410C
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #FAFCF3Darkest = 950 · #35410CText 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 0.049 122.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.079 122.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.119 122.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.154 122.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.182 122.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.198 122.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.198 122.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.186 122.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.166 122.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.138 122.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.109 122.1);
}

Colors that work with #b7df22

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#E3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8A9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#1D25E4
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#5B6F10
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F8FCE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#9EC11C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#85A217
Two steps down
Disabled#C2C8A9
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C4ED28
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 #b7df22

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 #5B6F10
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #819E17

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
  • Weight50/100
  • 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#4A22DF
Analogous left#DFA922
Analogous right#59DF22
Split-complement 1#2259DF
Split-complement 2#A922DF
Triadic 1#22B7DF
Triadic 2#DF22B7
Tetradic#22DFA9
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°73°

#b7df22 sits at 73°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red71.8%
Green87.5%
Blue13.3%
R · 0–255
183
0xb7
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
34
0x22

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow84.8%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 115%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#b7df22 text on a black background

contrast 13.59:1

Card sample

#b7df22 text on a white background

contrast 1.55:1

Card sample

#b7df22 on grey

1.41:1

#b7df22 on its own surface

1.47:1

#b7df22 on its dark surface

10.24:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #b7df22;
Background color
Panel with #b7df22 background
background-color: #b7df22;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #b7df22;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(183, 223, 34, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(183, 223, 34, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #b7df22;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #b7df22, #39DF22);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #b7df22, #22DF3A);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #b7df22;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #b7df22;
caret-color: #b7df22;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #b7df22;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F8FCE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #b7df22;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#b7df22 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #b7df22 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(183, 223, 34, 0.5)
rgb(183 223 34 / 50%)
#b7df2280
hsl(73 75% 50% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #b7df22 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#b7df221a#F8FCE9
20%#b7df2233#F1F9D3
40%#b7df2266#E2F2A7
60%#b7df2299#D4EC7A
80%#b7df22cc#C5E54E

Gradients from #b7df22

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, #C8E757, #b7df22 45%, #5B6F10);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #b7df22, #23C61D);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #b7df22, #4A22DF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D1EB72 0%, #b7df22 45%, #5B6F10 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%, #E5AD4F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5FE33D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #5B6F10 0%, transparent 65%), #b7df22;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #b7df22

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.

#b7df22 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 13.59:1.

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.

#b7df22, answered

What color is #b7df22?

#b7df22 is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 6.1). It sits at 73° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 50% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #b7df22?

rgb(183, 223, 34) — 183 red, 223 green and 34 blue out of 255, or 71.8% / 87.5% / 13.3% by channel.

What is #b7df22 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(73, 75%, 50%) and hsv(73, 85%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #b7df22 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6296 and perceived brightness is 78%, so black text on it reaches 13.59:1.

Should I use black or white text on #b7df22?

Black. It scores 13.59:1 against #b7df22, versus 1.55:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #b7df22 accessible on a white background?

#b7df22 on white scores 1.55:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #687F12 to reach 4.5:1, or #4E5F0E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #b7df22?

#4A22DF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #2259DF and #A922DF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #b7df22?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E3EDC0 for borders, #8A9B4B for secondary text, #1D25E4 as an accent and #5B6F10 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DFA922 and #59DF22 stays calm, while #4A22DF is the loudest partner.

What is #b7df22 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 0%, 85%, 13%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #b7df22 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DFC222; nudged cooler, #71E220.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #b7df22?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 8.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #b7df22 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #b7df22 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#b7df22] or text-[#b7df22], 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 #b7df22 with 50% opacity?

rgba(183, 223, 34, 0.5), or #b7df2280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DBEF91; over black, #5C7011.

Is #b7df22 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCC33, ΔE2000 8.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #b7df22 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 #b7df22?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C8E757, #b7df22 45%, #5B6F10). For more colour, a short hue run to #23C61D keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #b7df22 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #b7df22 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.