Tailwind CSS v3 color

Tailwind green-950 #052E16

Tailwind CSS v3's green-950 is #052E16. It is a very dark muted green in the green family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.266, chroma 0.063 and hue 152.9°. The nearest CSS named color is darkslategray (#2F4F4F), ΔE2000 16.5 away.

Relative luminance: 0.0204
OKLCH L · C · h: 0.266 · 0.063 · 152.9
Best text: White 14.90:1
Hue family: Green

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#052E16 color codes

HEX: #052E16
RGB: rgb(5, 46, 22)
HSL: hsl(145, 80%, 10%)
OKLCH: oklch(0.266 0.063 152.9)
OKLab: oklab(0.266 -0.056 0.029)
CIELAB (D65): L* 15.72, a* -20.79, b* 11.57
XYZ (D65): X 1.18, Y 2.04, Z 1.09
CMYK (naive): cmyk(89%, 0%, 52%, 82%)

CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.

Legibility

Contrast: is #052E16 accessible?

White text on it reaches 14.90:1, passing AAA. Black text fails at 1.40:1.

WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.

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Black text on it

1.40:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc 0
Text is here, unreadable at 1.40:1
White text on it

14.90:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc −104
As text on black

1.40:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc 0
Text is here, unreadable at 1.40:1
As text on white

14.90:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc +101

Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1

For text on white

#052E16 14.90:1

It already reaches 14.90:1 on white, so no change is needed.
For text on black

#577E62 4.56:1

Lightening its OKLCH lightness from 0.27 to 0.56 reaches 4.56:1 on black, keeping the hue.

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Studio

Adjust #052E16 live

Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.

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Scale

Shades and tints of #052E16

Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #052E16 sits at step 900.

50#DEFFE6

White
1.07
Black
19.55
100#D2F6DB

White
1.17
Black
17.94
200#BDE3C6

White
1.40
Black
14.96
300#A2C9AC

White
1.82
Black
11.48
400#84AD8F

White
2.51
Black
8.35
500#699274

White
3.52
Black
5.96
600#52795D

White
4.93
Black
4.25
700#3C6248

White
6.92
Black
3.03
800#264931

White
10.09
Black
2.07
900This color#052E16

White
14.90
Black
1.40
950#021C0B

White
17.89
Black
1.17

Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.

Tailwind CSS v3 green scale

The real Tailwind palette, for comparison with the computed ramp above.

50#F0FDF4
White
1.04
Black
20.06
100#DCFCE7
White
1.09
Black
19.12
200#BBF7D0
White
1.21
Black
17.32
300#86EFAC
White
1.40
Black
14.95
400#4ADE80
White
1.74
Black
12.05
500#22C55E
White
2.27
Black
9.21
600#16A34A
White
3.29
Black
6.37
700#15803D
White
5.01
Black
4.18
800#166534
White
7.13
Black
2.94
900#14532D
White
9.11
Black
2.30
950This color#052E16

White
14.90
Black
1.40

Gamut

How vivid #052E16 can get

At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.069; #052E16 uses 91% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.096 there: 39% more.

sRGB
Display P3
Rec. 2020
Dominant wavelength

OKLCH chroma: 0.063
sRGB edge: 0.069
Display P3 edge: 0.096
Rec. 2020 edge: 0.150
Dominant wavelength: 535 nm
Excitation purity: 32%
Chromaticity: x 0.2742, y 0.4732

This color#052E16
Most vivid in sRGB#002F14
Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.266 0.096 152.9)

On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.

Use the wider color where screens show it

.accent {
  color: #052e16;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
  .accent { color: color(display-p3 0 0.1901 0.0625); }
}

Mixing

Mixing #052E16

Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.

White #FFFFFF

sRGB50%#82978B
OKLab50%#7C9081
OKLCH50%#7C9081

Black #000000

sRGB50%#03170B
OKLab50%#010B03
OKLCH50%#010B03

Its complement #371933

sRGB50%#1E2425
OKLab50%#252626
OKLCH50%#012841

In CSS

/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #052e16, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #052e16 50%, white);

In use

#052E16 in an interface

A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.

Light page

Button labelText, 4.5:114.90:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:114.90:1 Passes
Large headingLarge text, 3:114.90:1 Passes
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:114.90:1 Passes

Dark page

Button labelText, 4.5:114.90:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:11.25:1 Fails
Large headingLarge text, 3:11.25:1 Fails
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:11.25:1 Fails

For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #5E8669 4.54:1

Color vision

How #052E16 looks with color blindness

Achromatopsia changes it most, ΔE2000 18.8; tritanopia changes it least, 8.7.

Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.

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Protanopia

No working red (long-wavelength) cones

#2E2914 ΔE2000 16.6

Distinct

Reads as very dark grayish brown
Deuteranopia

No working green (medium-wavelength) cones

#292618 ΔE2000 16.3

Distinct

Reads as very dark grayish brown
Tritanopia

No working blue (short-wavelength) cones

#002D28 ΔE2000 8.7

Noticeable

Reads as very dark grayish teal
Achromatopsia

No cone color vision; lightness only

#272727 ΔE2000 18.8

Distinct

Reads as near-black

Pairing check

Checked against its complement, #371933. Their lightness contrast is only 1.04:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.

Vision	The pair	ΔE2000	Verdict
Normal vision	#052E16 · #371933	42.9	Stays distinct
Protanopia	#2E2914 · #182134	23.3	Stays distinct
Deuteranopia	#292618 · #212532	16.9	Stays distinct
Tritanopia	#002D28 · #391B23	36.9	Stays distinct
Achromatopsia	#272727 · #242424	0.9	Easily confused

Harmony

Color harmonies for #052E16

Its complement is #371933, a very dark muted magenta.

Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.

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Base#052E16
Complement#371933

Complementary

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−30°#202A02
Base#052E16
+30°#002D28

Analogous

Open in Harmony Studio

Base#052E16
+120°#1C2244
+240°#3F1810

Triadic

Open in Harmony Studio

Base#052E16
+150°#2C1D3E
+210°#3E1723

Split-complementary

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Code

Design tokens

Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.

CSS custom property

:root {
  --color-green-950: #052e16;
}

Tailwind config

// tailwind.config.js — already built in as green-950;
// pin the v3 value explicitly like this:
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        green: { 950: '#052e16' },
      },
    },
  },
};

Tailwind v4 theme

/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  /* v4 has its own green-950; this pins the v3 value. */
  --color-green-950: oklch(0.266 0.063 152.9);
}

Design token (W3C DTCG)

{
  "color": {
    "green-950": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [0.0196, 0.1804, 0.0863],
        "hex": "#052e16"
      },
      "$description": "Tailwind CSS v3 green-950"
    }
  }
}

SwiftUI color

import SwiftUI

enum Palette {
    static let green950 = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.020, green: 0.180, blue: 0.086, opacity: 1)
}

Jetpack Compose color

import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color

object Palette {
    val Green950 = Color(0xFF052E16)
}

Matches

The nearest match in each system

The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.

Tools

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Tailwind green-950 #052E16

#052E16 color codes

Contrast: is #052E16 accessible?

Black text on it

White text on it

As text on black

As text on white

Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1

Adjust #052E16 live

Shades and tints of #052E16

Tailwind CSS v3 green scale

How vivid #052E16 can get

Mixing #052E16

#052E16 in an interface

How #052E16 looks with color blindness

Protanopia

Deuteranopia

Tritanopia

Achromatopsia

Pairing check

Color harmonies for #052E16

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split-complementary

Design tokens

CSS custom property

Tailwind config

Tailwind v4 theme

Design token (W3C DTCG)

SwiftUI color

Jetpack Compose color

The nearest match in each system

Similar colors

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