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Dark Green

Hex #006400, rgb(0 100 0). A green CSS named color.

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About Dark Green

Dark Green is a dark saturated green with the hex code #006400. In RGB it is made of 0 red, 100 green and 0 blue; in HSL its hue is 120°, with 100% saturation and 20% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 43.6%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkgreen" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 7.44:1 and against black 2.82:1, so white text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Dark Green mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Dark Green 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Dark Green

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Dark Green with white and black. The readable text color on Dark Green is white.

Dark Green textSmall text on white

On white7.44:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 85

Dark Green textSmall text on black

On black2.82:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc -17

White text on Dark Green (#FFFFFF)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Dark Green appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#665900
  • Deuteranopia#5D5311
  • Tritanopia#006154
  • Protanomaly#585B00
  • Deuteranomaly#53570D
  • Tritanomaly#006339
  • Achromatopsia#555555

Colors similar to Dark Green

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Green in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.dark-green {
  color: darkgreen; /* #006400 */
  background-color: rgb(0 100 0);
  border-color: oklch(43.6% 0.148 142.5);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-green-500, text-dark-green-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-green-50: #F5FDF4;
  --color-dark-green-100: #E2F4DF;
  --color-dark-green-200: #C5E8C1;
  --color-dark-green-300: #96D690;
  --color-dark-green-400: #52BB4C;
  --color-dark-green-500: #10A90E;
  --color-dark-green-600: #009300;
  --color-dark-green-700: #007900;
  --color-dark-green-800: #006400;
  --color-dark-green-900: #065005;
  --color-dark-green-950: #001D00;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#006400] text-[#FFFFFF]">…</div>