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#bfd46c

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

Token name suggestion: True Fern

RGB
191, 212, 108
HSL
72°, 55%, 63%
CMYK
10, 0, 49, 17
Luminance
0.5925

#bfd46c is a balanced vivid green, 72° on the wheel and 35/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.85:1). As text it scores 1.63:1 on white — use #6B7D25 instead. Nearest name is Yellow Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(72 55% 63%)rgb(191 212 108)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bfd46c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bfd46c
Hue
72°
green
Saturation
55%
vivid
Lightness
63%
balanced
Brightness
83%
HSV value
Perceived
77%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5925
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
35/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
12.85:1
Closest name
Yellow Green
ΔE2000 7.3
Chroma
53.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.832
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 10.1
Web-safe
#CCCC66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue72° of 360°
Saturation55%
Lightness63%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bfd46c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool35% 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
Red19%
Green79%
Blue2%

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

Every format

HEX#bfd46c
HEX (8-digit)#bfd46cff
RGBrgb(191, 212, 108)
RGBArgba(191, 212, 108, 1)
HSLhsl(72, 55%, 63%)
HSV / HSBhsv(72, 49%, 83%)
HWBhwb(72 42% 17%)
CMYKcmyk(10%, 0%, 49%, 17%)
LABlab(81.4 -22.5 48.7)
LCHlch(81.4 53.6 114.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.832 0.132 118.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(47.74, 59.25, 23.11)
Decimal12571756
Display P3color(display-p3 0.749 0.831 0.424)
Web-safe#CCCC66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bfd46c;
background-color: #bfd46c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bfd46c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bfd46c] bg-[#bfd46c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bfd46c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.749, green: 0.831, blue: 0.424)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.749, green: 0.831, blue: 0.424, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BFD46C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBFD46C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBFD46C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(108, 212, 191)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(191, 212, 108)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(191, 212, 108)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 191, 212, 108)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7490f, 0.8314f, 0.4235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{191,212,108}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bfd46c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bfd46c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#55631D, #E9EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bfd46c 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: #F4F6E9;
  --brand-200: #E7EECE;
  --brand-300: #D9E6A8;
  --brand-400: #bfd46c;
  --brand-500: #B3CC51;
  --brand-600: #A2BD37;
  --brand-700: #879E2E;
  --brand-800: #6C7E25;
  --brand-900: #505C1E;
  --brand-950: #323913;
  --brand: #bfd46c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E4EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #B3CC50;
  --brand-pressed: #A5C038;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E9EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F4F6E9',
        200: '#E7EECE',
        300: '#D9E6A8',
        400: '#bfd46c',
        500: '#B3CC51',
        600: '#A2BD37',
        700: '#879E2E',
        800: '#6C7E25',
        900: '#505C1E',
        950: '#323913',
        DEFAULT: '#bfd46c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F4F6E9,
  '200': #E7EECE,
  '300': #D9E6A8,
  '400': #bfd46c,
  '500': #B3CC51,
  '600': #A2BD37,
  '700': #879E2E,
  '800': #6C7E25,
  '900': #505C1E,
  '950': #323913,
);
$brand-base: #bfd46c;
$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": "#F4F6E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E7EECE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D9E6A8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#bfd46c", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B3CC51", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#A2BD37", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#879E2E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6C7E25", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#505C1E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#323913", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bfd46c · 12.85:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.63:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.85:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bfd46c as text scores 1.63:1 on white and 12.85:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #55631D at 4.03:1.

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
#6B7D25 · 4.58:1
AA on white−31% L
#6B7D25
The quick fox
#505D1B · 7.19:1
AAA on white−39% L
#505D1B
The quick fox
#bfd46c · 12.85:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bfd46c
The quick fox
#bfd46c · 12.85:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bfd46c

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #869D2E 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
#bfd46c on white: 1.63:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bfd46c on black: 12.85:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bfd46c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bfd46c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.63:1AaAa
Slate 501.56:1AaAa
Slate 1001.49:1AaAa
Slate 2001.33:1AaAa
Slate 3001.10:1AaAa
Slate 4001.57:1AaAa
Slate 5002.91:1AaAa
Slate 6004.64:1AaAa
Slate 7006.34:1AaAa
Slate 8008.95:1AaAa
Slate 90010.92:1AaAa
Black12.85:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #DFCA63
deuteranopia · #DDCB72
tritanopia · #C8CBBC

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. #bfd46c 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.

#F9FBF4
#F4F6E9
#E7EECE
#D9E6A8
#bfd46c
#B3CC51
#A2BD37
#879E2E
#6C7E25
#505C1E
#323913
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #323913Text 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 0.033 118.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.053 118.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.079 118.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.103 118.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.122 118.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.132 118.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.132 118.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.124 118.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.111 118.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.092 118.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.073 118.8);
}

Colors that work with #bfd46c

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#E4EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8B9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#686DD8
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#55631D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6F9EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#B3CC50
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A5C038
Two steps down
Disabled#DDE1CF
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CBE173
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #bfd46c

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 #55631D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #869D2E

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
  • Weight37/100
  • 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#816CD4
Analogous left#D4B56C
Analogous right#8BD46C
Split-complement 1#6C8BD4
Split-complement 2#B56CD4
Triadic 1#6CBFD4
Triadic 2#D46CBF
Tetradic#6CD4B5
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°72°

#bfd46c sits at 72°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.9%
Green83.1%
Blue42.4%
R · 0–255
191
0xbf
G · 0–255
212
0xd4
B · 0–255
108
0x6c

CMYK percentages

Cyan9.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow49.1%
Key (black)16.9%

Total ink coverage is 76%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bfd46c text on a black background

contrast 12.85:1

Card sample

#bfd46c text on a white background

contrast 1.63:1

Card sample

#bfd46c on grey

1.49:1

#bfd46c on its own surface

1.56:1

#bfd46c on its dark surface

9.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bfd46c;
Background color
Panel with #bfd46c background
background-color: #bfd46c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bfd46c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(191, 212, 108, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(191, 212, 108, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bfd46c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bfd46c, #7AD46C);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bfd46c, #6CD478);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bfd46c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bfd46c;
caret-color: #bfd46c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bfd46c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6F9EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bfd46c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bfd46c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bfd46c 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(191, 212, 108, 0.5)
rgb(191 212 108 / 50%)
#bfd46c80
hsl(72 55% 63% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bfd46c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bfd46c1a#F9FBF0
20%#bfd46c33#F2F6E2
40%#bfd46c66#E5EEC4
60%#bfd46c99#D9E5A7
80%#bfd46ccc#CCDD89

Gradients from #bfd46c

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, #D4E29B, #bfd46c 45%, #55631D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bfd46c, #5ACD54);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bfd46c, #816CD4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DEE9B3 0%, #bfd46c 45%, #55631D 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%, #DFC293 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #96DB84 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #55631D 0%, transparent 65%), #bfd46c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bfd46c

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.

#bfd46c 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 12.85:1.

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.

#bfd46c, answered

What color is #bfd46c?

#bfd46c is a balanced vivid green, closest to Yellow Green (ΔE2000 7.3). It sits at 72° on the hue wheel with 55% saturation and 63% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #bfd46c?

rgb(191, 212, 108) — 191 red, 212 green and 108 blue out of 255, or 74.9% / 83.1% / 42.4% by channel.

What is #bfd46c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(72, 55%, 63%) and hsv(72, 49%, 83%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bfd46c a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5925 and perceived brightness is 77%, so black text on it reaches 12.85:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bfd46c?

Black. It scores 12.85:1 against #bfd46c, versus 1.63:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bfd46c accessible on a white background?

#bfd46c on white scores 1.63:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #6B7D25 to reach 4.5:1, or #505D1B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bfd46c?

#816CD4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6C8BD4 and #B56CD4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bfd46c?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E4EDC0 for borders, #8B9B4B for secondary text, #686DD8 as an accent and #55631D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D4B56C and #8BD46C stays calm, while #816CD4 is the loudest partner.

What is #bfd46c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(10%, 0%, 49%, 17%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #bfd46c warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 35 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D4C36C; nudged cooler, #99D66A.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bfd46c?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 10.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bfd46c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bfd46c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bfd46c] or text-[#bfd46c], 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 #bfd46c with 50% opacity?

rgba(191, 212, 108, 0.5), or #bfd46c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DFEAB6; over black, #606A36.

Is #bfd46c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCC66, ΔE2000 5.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bfd46c 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 #bfd46c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D4E29B, #bfd46c 45%, #55631D). For more colour, a short hue run to #5ACD54 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bfd46c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bfd46c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.