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#abd092

a light, soft green · neutral · closest name: Dark Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Drift Fern

RGB
171, 208, 146
HSL
96°, 40%, 69%
CMYK
18, 0, 30, 18
Luminance
0.5585

#abd092 is a light soft green, 96° on the wheel and 52/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (12.17:1). As text it scores 1.73:1 on white — use #568238 instead. Nearest name is Dark Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(96 40% 69%)rgb(171 208 146)Base step 400AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #abd092 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#abd092
Hue
96°
green
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
82%
HSV value
Perceived
75%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5585
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
52/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
12.17:1
Closest name
Dark Sea Green
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
35.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.815
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 14.2
Web-safe
#99CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue96° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #abd092.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool52% cool

Reads neutral. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red16%
Green81%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#abd092
HEX (8-digit)#abd092ff
RGBrgb(171, 208, 146)
RGBArgba(171, 208, 146, 1)
HSLhsl(96, 40%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(96, 30%, 82%)
HWBhwb(96 57% 18%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 0%, 30%, 18%)
LABlab(79.5 -23.4 26.9)
LCHlch(79.5 35.6 131.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.815 0.093 133.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.54, 55.84, 35.62)
Decimal11260050
Display P3color(display-p3 0.671 0.816 0.573)
Web-safe#99CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #abd092;
background-color: #abd092;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #abd092;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#abd092] bg-[#abd092]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #abd092;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.671, green: 0.816, blue: 0.573)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.671, green: 0.816, blue: 0.573, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ABD092</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFABD092)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFABD092)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(146, 208, 171)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(171, 208, 146)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(171, 208, 146)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 171, 208, 146)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6706f, 0.8157f, 0.5725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{171,208,146}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #abd092 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #abd092 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3B5926, #DEEDD4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #abd092 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: #F7FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EFF4EB;
  --brand-200: #DCE9D2;
  --brand-300: #C3DDB1;
  --brand-400: #abd092;
  --brand-500: #86BB62;
  --brand-600: #71AB4A;
  --brand-700: #5E8E3E;
  --brand-800: #4B7231;
  --brand-900: #395427;
  --brand-950: #243418;
  --brand: #abd092;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D3E6C6;
  --brand-hover: #98C579;
  --brand-pressed: #85BA60;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A2414;
    --brand-ink: #DEEDD4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FAF5',
        100: '#EFF4EB',
        200: '#DCE9D2',
        300: '#C3DDB1',
        400: '#abd092',
        500: '#86BB62',
        600: '#71AB4A',
        700: '#5E8E3E',
        800: '#4B7231',
        900: '#395427',
        950: '#243418',
        DEFAULT: '#abd092',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FAF5,
  '100': #EFF4EB,
  '200': #DCE9D2,
  '300': #C3DDB1,
  '400': #abd092,
  '500': #86BB62,
  '600': #71AB4A,
  '700': #5E8E3E,
  '800': #4B7231,
  '900': #395427,
  '950': #243418,
);
$brand-base: #abd092;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF4EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DCE9D2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C3DDB1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#abd092", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#86BB62", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#71AB4A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5E8E3E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4B7231", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#395427", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#243418", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #abd092 · 12.17:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.73:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 12.17:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #abd092 as text scores 1.73:1 on white and 12.17:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3B5926 at 4.60:1.

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
#568238 · 4.52:1
AA on white−33% L
#568238
The quick fox
#3E5E29 · 7.40:1
AAA on white−43% L
#3E5E29
The quick fox
#abd092 · 12.17:1
AA on blackalready passes
#abd092
The quick fox
#abd092 · 12.17:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#abd092

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6BA246 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
#abd092 on white: 1.73:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#abd092 on black: 12.17:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #abd092 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #abd092.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.73:1AaAa
Slate 501.65:1AaAa
Slate 1001.58:1AaAa
Slate 2001.40:1AaAa
Slate 3001.16:1AaAa
Slate 4001.49:1AaAa
Slate 5002.76:1AaAa
Slate 6004.39:1AaAa
Slate 7006.00:1AaAa
Slate 8008.48:1AaAa
Slate 90010.35:1AaAa
Black12.17:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D5C78E
deuteranopia · #CFC495
tritanopia · #ACCBC0

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. #abd092 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.

#F7FAF5
#EFF4EB
#DCE9D2
#C3DDB1
#abd092
#86BB62
#71AB4A
#5E8E3E
#4B7231
#395427
#243418
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F7FAF5Darkest = 950 · #243418Text 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 0.023 133.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 133.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 133.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.072 133.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.085 133.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.093 133.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.093 133.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.087 133.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.078 133.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.065 133.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.051 133.2);
}

Colors that work with #abd092

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D3E6C6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6B9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#593A92
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3B5926
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1F7ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#98C579
One step down in lightness
Pressed#85BA60
Two steps down
Disabled#E8EEE4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B5DD99
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 #abd092

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • 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 #3B5926
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6BA246

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight31/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#B792D0
Analogous left#CAD092
Analogous right#92D098
Split-complement 1#9892D0
Split-complement 2#D092CA
Triadic 1#92ABD0
Triadic 2#D092AB
Tetradic#92CAD0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°96°

#abd092 sits at 96°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.1%
Green81.6%
Blue57.3%
R · 0–255
171
0xab
G · 0–255
208
0xd0
B · 0–255
146
0x92

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.8%
Key (black)18.4%

Total ink coverage is 66%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#abd092 text on a black background

contrast 12.17:1

Card sample

#abd092 text on a white background

contrast 1.73:1

Card sample

#abd092 on grey

1.58:1

#abd092 on its own surface

1.64:1

#abd092 on its dark surface

9.32:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #abd092;
Background color
Panel with #abd092 background
background-color: #abd092;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #abd092;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(171, 208, 146, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(171, 208, 146, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #abd092;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #abd092, #92D0A2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abd092, #92D0B2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #abd092;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #abd092;
caret-color: #abd092;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #abd092;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1F7ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #abd092;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#abd092 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #abd092 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(171, 208, 146, 0.5)
rgb(171 208 146 / 50%)
#abd09280
hsl(96 40% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #abd092 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#abd0921a#F7FAF4
20%#abd09233#EEF6E9
40%#abd09266#DDECD3
60%#abd09299#CDE3BE
80%#abd092cc#BCD9A8

Gradients from #abd092

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, #CCE2BD, #abd092 45%, #3B5926);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #abd092, #7DC796);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abd092, #B792D0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #DCECD2 0%, #abd092 45%, #3B5926 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DFDFB6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A7D9B0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3B5926 0%, transparent 65%), #abd092;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #abd092

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.

#abd092 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 12.17:1.

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.

#abd092, answered

What color is #abd092?

#abd092 is a light soft green, closest to Dark Sea Green (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 96° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #abd092?

rgb(171, 208, 146) — 171 red, 208 green and 146 blue out of 255, or 67.1% / 81.6% / 57.3% by channel.

What is #abd092 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(96, 40%, 69%) and hsv(96, 30%, 82%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #abd092 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5585 and perceived brightness is 75%, so black text on it reaches 12.17:1.

Should I use black or white text on #abd092?

Black. It scores 12.17:1 against #abd092, versus 1.73:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #abd092 accessible on a white background?

#abd092 on white scores 1.73:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #568238 to reach 4.5:1, or #3E5E29 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #abd092?

#B792D0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #9892D0 and #D092CA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #abd092?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D3E6C6 for borders, #6B9B4B for secondary text, #593A92 as an accent and #3B5926 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CAD092 and #92D098 stays calm, while #B792D0 is the loudest partner.

What is #abd092 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 0%, 30%, 18%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #abd092 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 52 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C2D092; nudged cooler, #93D290.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #abd092?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 14.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #abd092 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #abd092 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#abd092] or text-[#abd092], 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 #abd092 with 50% opacity?

rgba(171, 208, 146, 0.5), or #abd09280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5E8C9; over black, #566849.

Is #abd092 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CC99, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #abd092 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #abd092?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #CCE2BD, #abd092 45%, #3B5926). For more colour, a short hue run to #7DC796 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #abd092 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #abd092 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.