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#bdfb40

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

Token name suggestion: True Basil

RGB
189, 251, 64
HSL
80°, 96%, 62%
CMYK
25, 0, 75, 2
Luminance
0.8018

#bdfb40 is a balanced electric green, 80° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.04:1). As text it scores 1.23:1 on white — use #578103 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 96% 62%)rgb(189 251 64)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bdfb40 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bdfb40
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
62%
balanced
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8018
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.04:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 2.4
Chroma
89.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.914
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 11.5
Web-safe
#CCFF33
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness62%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bdfb40.

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
Red13%
Green86%
Blue0%

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

Every format

HEX#bdfb40
HEX (8-digit)#bdfb40ff
RGBrgb(189, 251, 64)
RGBArgba(189, 251, 64, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 96%, 62%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 75%, 98%)
HWBhwb(80 25% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 75%, 2%)
LABlab(91.8 -44.3 77.4)
LCHlch(91.8 89.2 119.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.914 0.214 126.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(56.41, 80.18, 17.35)
Decimal12450624
Display P3color(display-p3 0.741 0.984 0.251)
Web-safe#CCFF33

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bdfb40;
background-color: #bdfb40;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bdfb40;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bdfb40] bg-[#bdfb40]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bdfb40;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.741, green: 0.984, blue: 0.251)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.741, green: 0.984, blue: 0.251, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BDFB40</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBDFB40)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBDFB40)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(64, 251, 189)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(189, 251, 64)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(189, 251, 64)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 189, 251, 64)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7412f, 0.9843f, 0.2510f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{189,251,64}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfb40 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfb40 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#547D03, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bdfb40 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: #F9FDF1;
  --brand-100: #F4FCE4;
  --brand-200: #E7FAC1;
  --brand-300: #D9FD91;
  --brand-400: #bdfb40;
  --brand-500: #B3FA23;
  --brand-600: #A2F005;
  --brand-700: #87C804;
  --brand-800: #6CA003;
  --brand-900: #4F7307;
  --brand-950: #324805;
  --brand: #bdfb40;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #B1FA1D;
  --brand-pressed: #A1EF05;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FDF1',
        100: '#F4FCE4',
        200: '#E7FAC1',
        300: '#D9FD91',
        400: '#bdfb40',
        500: '#B3FA23',
        600: '#A2F005',
        700: '#87C804',
        800: '#6CA003',
        900: '#4F7307',
        950: '#324805',
        DEFAULT: '#bdfb40',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FDF1,
  '100': #F4FCE4,
  '200': #E7FAC1,
  '300': #D9FD91,
  '400': #bdfb40,
  '500': #B3FA23,
  '600': #A2F005,
  '700': #87C804,
  '800': #6CA003,
  '900': #4F7307,
  '950': #324805,
);
$brand-base: #bdfb40;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F4FCE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E7FAC1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D9FD91", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#bdfb40", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B3FA23", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A2F005", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#87C804", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6CA003", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4F7307", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#324805", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bdfb40 · 17.04:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.23:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.04:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bdfb40 as text scores 1.23:1 on white and 17.04:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #547D03 at 3.95:1.

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
#578103 · 4.62:1
AA on white−36% L
#578103
The quick fox
#3F5E02 · 7.46:1
AAA on white−43% L
#3F5E02
The quick fox
#bdfb40 · 17.04:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bdfb40
The quick fox
#bdfb40 · 17.04:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bdfb40

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6FA403 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
#bdfb40 on white: 1.23:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bdfb40 on black: 17.04:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bdfb40 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bdfb40.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.23:1AaAa
Slate 501.18:1AaAa
Slate 1001.13:1AaAa
Slate 2001.00:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4002.08:1AaAa
Slate 5003.86:1AaAa
Slate 6006.15:1AaAa
Slate 7008.40:1AaAa
Slate 80011.87:1AaAa
Slate 90014.48:1AaAa
Black17.04:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFEA11
deuteranopia · #FFE652
tritanopia · #C5EFD8

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. #bdfb40 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.

#F9FDF1
#F4FCE4
#E7FAC1
#D9FD91
#bdfb40
#B3FA23
#A2F005
#87C804
#6CA003
#4F7307
#324805
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F9FDF1Darkest = 950 · #324805Text 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 0.053 126.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.086 126.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.128 126.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.167 126.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.197 126.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.214 126.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.214 126.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.201 126.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.180 126.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.150 126.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.118 126.7);
}

Colors that work with #bdfb40

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#4C3CFF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#547D03
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#B1FA1D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A1EF05
Two steps down
Disabled#D9DFCD
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C5FF51
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 #bdfb40

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 #547D03
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6FA403

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
  • Weight38/100
  • 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#7E40FB
Analogous left#FBDC40
Analogous right#60FB40
Split-complement 1#4060FB
Split-complement 2#DC40FB
Triadic 1#40BDFB
Triadic 2#FB40BD
Tetradic#40FBDC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#bdfb40 sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.1%
Green98.4%
Blue25.1%
R · 0–255
189
0xbd
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
64
0x40

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow74.5%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 101%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bdfb40 text on a black background

contrast 17.04:1

Card sample

#bdfb40 text on a white background

contrast 1.23:1

Card sample

#bdfb40 on grey

1.13:1

#bdfb40 on its own surface

1.17:1

#bdfb40 on its dark surface

12.90:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bdfb40;
Background color
Panel with #bdfb40 background
background-color: #bdfb40;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bdfb40;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(189, 251, 64, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(189, 251, 64, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bdfb40;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bdfb40, #40FB40);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfb40, #40FB6F);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bdfb40;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bdfb40;
caret-color: #bdfb40;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bdfb40;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bdfb40;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bdfb40 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bdfb40 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(189, 251, 64, 0.5)
rgb(189 251 64 / 50%)
#bdfb4080
hsl(80 96% 62% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bdfb40 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bdfb401a#F8FFEC
20%#bdfb4033#F2FED9
40%#bdfb4066#E5FDB3
60%#bdfb4099#D7FD8C
80%#bdfb40cc#CAFC66

Gradients from #bdfb40

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, #D2FC7C, #bdfb40 45%, #547D03);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bdfb40, #22FA34);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfb40, #7E40FB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DCFD9A 0%, #bdfb40 45%, #547D03 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%, #FCD972 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #6CFC5E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #547D03 0%, transparent 65%), #bdfb40;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bdfb40

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.

#bdfb40 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 17.04:1.

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.

#bdfb40, answered

What color is #bdfb40?

#bdfb40 is a balanced electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 2.4). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 62% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #bdfb40?

rgb(189, 251, 64) — 189 red, 251 green and 64 blue out of 255, or 74.1% / 98.4% / 25.1% by channel.

What is #bdfb40 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 96%, 62%) and hsv(80, 75%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bdfb40 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8018 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 17.04:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bdfb40?

Black. It scores 17.04:1 against #bdfb40, versus 1.23:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bdfb40 accessible on a white background?

#bdfb40 on white scores 1.23:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #578103 to reach 4.5:1, or #3F5E02 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bdfb40?

#7E40FB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #4060FB and #DC40FB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bdfb40?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #809B4B for secondary text, #4C3CFF as an accent and #547D03 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FBDC40 and #60FB40 stays calm, while #7E40FB is the loudest partner.

What is #bdfb40 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 75%, 2%). 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 #bdfb40 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 #FBF440; nudged cooler, #78FD3E.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bdfb40?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 11.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bdfb40 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bdfb40 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bdfb40] or text-[#bdfb40], 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 #bdfb40 with 50% opacity?

rgba(189, 251, 64, 0.5), or #bdfb4080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFDA0; over black, #5F7E20.

Is #bdfb40 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFF33, ΔE2000 2.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bdfb40 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 #bdfb40?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D2FC7C, #bdfb40 45%, #547D03). For more colour, a short hue run to #22FA34 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bdfb40 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bdfb40 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.