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Pictured: Malachite, the closest color we have a photo of (#0BDA51)
rgb(0, 201, 87)
#00C957

Emeraldgreen #00C957 RGB Color Code

Emeraldgreen (#00C957) is a vivid, light green. In RGB it is made of 0% red, 79% green and 34% blue (R 0, G 201, B 87). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 146°, 100% saturation and 39% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.425, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 100% cyan, 0% magenta, 57% yellow and 21% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Emeraldgreen color codes

#00C957 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #00C957 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(0, 201, 87) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(146, 100%, 39%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(146, 100%, 79%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(146 0% 21%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(100%, 0%, 57%, 21%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(72.97% 0.2064 148.9) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(72.97% -0.1768 0.1066) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(71.18% -61.88 43.76) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(71.18% 75.79 144.73) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.3553 0.7765 0.3945) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2261 0.4246 0.1602) Valid CSS
Decimal 51543 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.4246. Nearest web-safe color: #00CC66.

Mix Emeraldgreen with other colors

See what #00C957 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintEmeraldgreen and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightEmeraldgreen and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintEmeraldgreen and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalEmeraldgreen blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Emeraldgreen in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--emeraldgreen: #00C957;
Sass variable$emeraldgreen: #00C957;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-emeraldgreen: #00C957; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'emeraldgreen': '#00C957' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0, green: 0.788, blue: 0.341)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0, green: 0.788, blue: 0.341, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="emeraldgreen">#FF00C957</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF00C957)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #00C957 (9.49:1, AAA). Here is how #00C957 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.21:1 on white
APCA Lc 43
Fails AATry #008A39
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
9.49:1 on black
APCA Lc -59
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Emeraldgreen

#00C957 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

#00C957 stays easy to tell apart from its complement and triadic colors for the common types of color blindness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Emeraldgreen

One word, from a web list

The odd spelling, with no space, gives away where this name comes from. Emeraldgreen is an entry in a long list of over 500 named colors on the Cloford web color table, next to names like cobaltgreen and sapgreen. That list gives it as RGB 0, 201, 87. The page warns that these names don't work in HTML or CSS, so you have to use the code.

It has nothing to do with the old poison pigment called emerald green. That was a copper and arsenic paint, covered on our emerald page. Emeraldgreen is brighter and stronger than emerald, a little bluer than malachite, and darker than spring green. Black text works best on it, at 9.49 to 1.

Emeraldgreen in a user interface

A sample app screen with #00C957 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #00C957 as it is. On the light theme, #00C957 is too hard to read as text (2.21:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #008A39 there (4.47:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Emeraldgreen

These schemes turn the hue of #00C957 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#00C957#C90072

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#0DC900this#00C957#00C9BC

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#00C957#5700C9#C95700

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#00C957#BC00C9#C9000D

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#00C957#0072C9#C90072#C95700

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#00C957#000DC9#C90072#C9BC00

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#00662C#00B950#0DFF76#60FFA5#B3FFD4

Gradients with Emeraldgreen

Four CSS gradients made from #00C957. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #DBF5DE, #00C957);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #00C957, #003612);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0DC900, #00C957, #00C9BC);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #00C957, #4583A1, #5700C9);

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Shades, tints and tones of Emeraldgreen

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Emeraldgreen sits at step 400. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    E5FFE8
  2. 100
    C1FFCB
  3. 200
    9BF3AB
  4. 300
    66DE82
  5. 400
    00C957
  6. 500
    00A144
  7. 600
    008236
  8. 700
    006729
  9. 800
    00511F
  10. 900
    003C14
  11. 950
    00250A

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #00C957 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6018 Yellow green#48A43F, rough match (ΔE 10.1)Tailwind CSSgreen-500 #22C55E, nearly the same (ΔE 1.6)CSS color nameslimegreen #32CD32, very close (ΔE 3.4)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of green or search the color library.