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Pictured: Malachite
rgb(11, 218, 81)
#0BDA51

Malachite #0BDA51 RGB Color Code

Malachite (#0BDA51) is a vivid, light green. In RGB it is made of 4% red, 85% green and 32% blue (R 11, G 218, B 81). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 140°, 90% saturation and 45% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.508, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 95% cyan, 0% magenta, 63% yellow and 15% 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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Malachite color codes

#0BDA51 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #0BDA51 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(11, 218, 81) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(140, 90%, 45%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(140, 95%, 85%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(140 4% 15%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(95%, 0%, 63%, 15%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(77.44% 0.2293 146.85) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(77.44% -0.192 0.1254) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(76.58% -66.67 52.47) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(76.58% 84.84 141.8) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.3918 0.8423 0.3897) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.2669 0.5081 0.1618) Valid CSS
Decimal 776785 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.5081. Nearest web-safe color: #00CC66.

Mix Malachite with other colors

See what #0BDA51 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.

PaintMalachite and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightMalachite and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintMalachite and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalMalachite blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Malachite 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--malachite: #0BDA51;
Sass variable$malachite: #0BDA51;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-malachite: #0BDA51; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'malachite': '#0BDA51' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.043, green: 0.855, blue: 0.318)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.043, green: 0.855, blue: 0.318, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="malachite">#FF0BDA51</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF0BDA51)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #0BDA51 (11.16:1, AAA). Here is how #0BDA51 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.88:1 on white
APCA Lc 35
Fails AATry #008A2F
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
11.16:1 on black
APCA Lc -68
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 Malachite

#0BDA51 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

#0BDA51 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 Malachite

The green stone

Malachite is a green mineral made of copper carbonate. Cut and polished, it shows bands of light and dark green. Its name goes back to the Greek words for a "mallow-green stone", because its color reminded people of mallow leaves. Big deposits have been mined in the Ural Mountains of Russia and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as the Wikipedia article on malachite explains.

From paint to palace walls

Ground malachite was used as a green paint pigment from ancient times until about 1800. In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, a whole hall called the Malachite Room is decorated with the stone. The ancient Egyptians spoke of the afterlife as the "Field of Malachite".

Where the code comes from

The code #0BDA51 matches the malachite green in Maerz and Paul's A Dictionary of Color of 1930. On a screen it is much brighter than most real stones, which are darker and more bluish. Don't confuse it with malachite green the dye. That is a man-made chemical named for its color, and it contains no malachite. For other gem greens, see emerald and jade.

Malachite in a user interface

A sample app screen with #0BDA51 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #0BDA51 as it is. On the light theme, #0BDA51 is too hard to read as text (1.88:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #008A2F there (4.49:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Malachite

These schemes turn the hue of #0BDA51 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#0BDA51#DA0B94

Analogous

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

Open palette
#2DDA0Bthis#0BDA51#0BDAB9

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#0BDA51#510BDA#DA510B

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#0BDA51#B90BDA#DA0B2D

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#0BDA51#0B94DA#DA0B94#DA510B

Square

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

Open palette
this#0BDA51#0B2DDA#DA0B94#DAB90B

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#056124#09B041#18F362#67F798#B6FBCE

Gradients with Malachite

Four CSS gradients made from #0BDA51. 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, #DDF9DF, #0BDA51);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #0BDA51, #013C10);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2DDA0B, #0BDA51, #0BDAB9);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0BDA51, #398FAC, #510BDA);

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Shades, tints and tones of Malachite

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)

Malachite sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    E5FFE7
  2. 100
    C3FFC8
  3. 200
    97F5A1
  4. 300
    0BDA51
  5. 400
    00C447
  6. 500
    00A239
  7. 600
    00832C
  8. 700
    006822
  9. 800
    005118
  10. 900
    003C10
  11. 950
    002507

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #0BDA51 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6037 Pure green#25E712, close (ΔE 5.4)Tailwind CSSgreen-400 #4ADE80, close (ΔE 5.7)CSS color nameslimegreen #32CD32, very close (ΔE 3.6)

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.