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#ade7a2

a light, vivid green · cool · closest name: Light Green

Token name suggestion: Drift Basil

RGB
173, 231, 162
HSL
110°, 59%, 77%
CMYK
25, 0, 30, 9
Luminance
0.6864

#ade7a2 is a light vivid green, 110° on the wheel and 58/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.73:1). As text it scores 1.43:1 on white — use #338623 instead. Nearest name is Light Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(110 59% 77%)rgb(173 231 162)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ade7a2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ade7a2
Hue
110°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
77%
light
Brightness
91%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6864
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
58/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
14.73:1
Closest name
Light Green
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
41.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.871
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 14.9
Web-safe
#99FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue110° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness77%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ade7a2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool58% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red13%
Green83%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#ade7a2
HEX (8-digit)#ade7a2ff
RGBrgb(173, 231, 162)
RGBArgba(173, 231, 162, 1)
HSLhsl(110, 59%, 77%)
HSV / HSBhsv(110, 30%, 91%)
HWBhwb(110 64% 9%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 30%, 9%)
LABlab(86.3 -31.3 27.8)
LCHlch(86.3 41.9 138.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.871 0.110 140.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(52.33, 68.64, 44.67)
Decimal11397026
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.906 0.635)
Web-safe#99FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ade7a2;
background-color: #ade7a2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ade7a2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ade7a2] bg-[#ade7a2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ade7a2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.906, blue: 0.635)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.906, blue: 0.635, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADE7A2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADE7A2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADE7A2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(162, 231, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 231, 162)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 231, 162)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 231, 162)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.9059f, 0.6353f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,231,162}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ade7a2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ade7a2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#26651A, #D7EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ade7a2 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: #F5FBF4;
  --brand-100: #EBF7E9;
  --brand-200: #D2EFCD;
  --brand-300: #ade7a2;
  --brand-400: #89DC79;
  --brand-500: #62D14D;
  --brand-600: #49C332;
  --brand-700: #3DA22A;
  --brand-800: #318221;
  --brand-900: #275E1C;
  --brand-950: #183B11;
  --brand: #ade7a2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C7EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #94E086;
  --brand-pressed: #7BD869;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #162414;
    --brand-ink: #D7EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FBF4',
        100: '#EBF7E9',
        200: '#D2EFCD',
        300: '#ade7a2',
        400: '#89DC79',
        500: '#62D14D',
        600: '#49C332',
        700: '#3DA22A',
        800: '#318221',
        900: '#275E1C',
        950: '#183B11',
        DEFAULT: '#ade7a2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FBF4,
  '100': #EBF7E9,
  '200': #D2EFCD,
  '300': #ade7a2,
  '400': #89DC79,
  '500': #62D14D,
  '600': #49C332,
  '700': #3DA22A,
  '800': #318221,
  '900': #275E1C,
  '950': #183B11,
);
$brand-base: #ade7a2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2EFCD", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ade7a2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#89DC79", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#62D14D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#49C332", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3DA22A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#318221", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#275E1C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#183B11", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ade7a2 · 14.73:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.43:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.73:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ade7a2 as text scores 1.43:1 on white and 14.73:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #26651A at 4.98:1.

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
#338623 · 4.59:1
AA on white−44% L
#338623
The quick fox
#26661A · 7.00:1
AAA on white−52% L
#26661A
The quick fox
#ade7a2 · 14.73:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ade7a2
The quick fox
#ade7a2 · 14.73:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ade7a2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3FA72B 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
#ade7a2 on white: 1.43:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ade7a2 on black: 14.73:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ade7a2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ade7a2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.43:1AaAa
Slate 501.36:1AaAa
Slate 1001.30:1AaAa
Slate 2001.16:1AaAa
Slate 3001.04:1AaAa
Slate 4001.80:1AaAa
Slate 5003.34:1AaAa
Slate 6005.31:1AaAa
Slate 7007.26:1AaAa
Slate 80010.26:1AaAa
Slate 90012.52:1AaAa
Black14.73:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EBDB9E
deuteranopia · #E2D6A6
tritanopia · #A9E3D5

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. #ade7a2 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FBF4
#EBF7E9
#D2EFCD
#ade7a2
#89DC79
#62D14D
#49C332
#3DA22A
#318221
#275E1C
#183B11
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F5FBF4Darkest = 950 · #183B11Text 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 0.028 140.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 140.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.066 140.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.086 140.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.101 140.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.110 140.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.110 140.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.104 140.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.093 140.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.077 140.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.061 140.6);
}

Colors that work with #ade7a2

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#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C7EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#579B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#7126A6
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#26651A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDFAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#162414
Dark-mode background
Hover#94E086
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7BD869
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B8F0AE
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 #ade7a2

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #26651A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3FA72B

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 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-high
  • Weight23/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#DCA2E7
Analogous left#D0E7A2
Analogous right#A2E7BA
Split-complement 1#BAA2E7
Split-complement 2#E7A2D0
Triadic 1#A2ADE7
Triadic 2#E7A2AD
Tetradic#A2D0E7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°110°

#ade7a2 sits at 110°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green90.6%
Blue63.5%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
231
0xe7
B · 0–255
162
0xa2

CMYK percentages

Cyan25.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.9%
Key (black)9.4%

Total ink coverage is 64%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ade7a2 text on a black background

contrast 14.73:1

Card sample

#ade7a2 text on a white background

contrast 1.43:1

Card sample

#ade7a2 on grey

1.30:1

#ade7a2 on its own surface

1.35:1

#ade7a2 on its dark surface

11.36:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ade7a2;
Background color
Panel with #ade7a2 background
background-color: #ade7a2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ade7a2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 231, 162, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 231, 162, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ade7a2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ade7a2, #A2E7C5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade7a2, #A2E7D6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ade7a2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ade7a2;
caret-color: #ade7a2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ade7a2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDFAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ade7a2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ade7a2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ade7a2 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(173, 231, 162, 0.5)
rgb(173 231 162 / 50%)
#ade7a280
hsl(110 59% 77% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ade7a2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ade7a21a#F7FDF6
20%#ade7a233#EFFAEC
40%#ade7a266#DEF5DA
60%#ade7a299#CEF1C7
80%#ade7a2cc#BDECB5

Gradients from #ade7a2

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, #D8F4D3, #ade7a2 45%, #26651A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ade7a2, #8AE1BD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ade7a2, #DCA2E7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #EDFAEB 0%, #ade7a2 45%, #26651A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E8F2CB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #BAEDD0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #26651A 0%, transparent 65%), #ade7a2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ade7a2

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.

#ade7a2 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 14.73:1.

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.

#ade7a2, answered

What color is #ade7a2?

#ade7a2 is a light vivid green, closest to Light Green (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 110° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 77% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ade7a2?

rgb(173, 231, 162) — 173 red, 231 green and 162 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 90.6% / 63.5% by channel.

What is #ade7a2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(110, 59%, 77%) and hsv(110, 30%, 91%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ade7a2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6864 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 14.73:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ade7a2?

Black. It scores 14.73:1 against #ade7a2, versus 1.43:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ade7a2 accessible on a white background?

#ade7a2 on white scores 1.43:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #338623 to reach 4.5:1, or #26661A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ade7a2?

#DCA2E7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BAA2E7 and #E7A2D0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ade7a2?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C7EDC0 for borders, #579B4B for secondary text, #7126A6 as an accent and #26651A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D0E7A2 and #A2E7BA stays calm, while #DCA2E7 is the loudest partner.

What is #ade7a2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 30%, 9%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ade7a2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 58 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C6E7A2; nudged cooler, #A1E8B0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ade7a2?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 14.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ade7a2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ade7a2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ade7a2] or text-[#ade7a2], 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 #ade7a2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(173, 231, 162, 0.5), or #ade7a280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6F3D1; over black, #577451.

Is #ade7a2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF99, ΔE2000 7.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ade7a2 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 #ade7a2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D8F4D3, #ade7a2 45%, #26651A). For more colour, a short hue run to #8AE1BD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ade7a2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ade7a2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.