Photo in the color Hunter green
Pictured: Hunter green, the closest color we have a photo of (#355E3B)
rgb(43, 93, 52)
#2B5D34

Pine #2B5D34 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Pine (#2B5D34) is a moderately saturated, dark green. In RGB it is made of 17% red, 36% green and 20% blue (R 43, G 93, B 52). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 131°, 37% saturation and 27% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.086, so white text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 54% cyan, 0% magenta, 44% yellow and 64% 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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Pine color codes

#2B5D34 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #2B5D34 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(43, 93, 52) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(131, 37%, 27%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(131, 54%, 36%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(131 17% 64%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(54%, 0%, 44%, 64%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(43.2% 0.0861 147.87) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(43.2% -0.0729 0.0458) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(35.19% -25.18 18.18) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(35.19% 31.06 144.16) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.2189 0.3601 0.2198) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.0553 0.0859 0.0462) Valid CSS
Decimal 2841908 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.0859. Nearest web-safe color: #336633.

Mix Pine with other colors

See what #2B5D34 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.

PaintPine and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightPine and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintPine and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalPine blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Pine 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--pine: #2B5D34;
Sass variable$pine: #2B5D34;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-pine: #2B5D34; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'pine': '#2B5D34' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.169, green: 0.365, blue: 0.204)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.169, green: 0.365, blue: 0.204, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="pine">#FF2B5D34</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF2B5D34)

Accessibility and contrast

White text works best on #2B5D34 (7.73:1, AAA). Here is how #2B5D34 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
7.73:1 on white
APCA Lc 87
AAA
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
2.72:1 on black
APCA Lc -15
Fails AATry #4D7F54

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 Pine

#2B5D34 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

With deuteranopia, #2B5D34 and #5D342B look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Pine

From an online color survey

The code #2B5D34 is the pine of the xkcd color survey. In that project, people online were shown random colors and asked to name them. This deep green is the color most people called pine. It appears in the survey's published list of 954 colors.

Pine or pine green?

Wikipedia has no entry for plain pine. Its list of colors has pine green, #01796F, the color of a Crayola crayon. That one leans toward teal, while this pine is a plain forest green. The list also has a much darker pine green, #2A2F23.

With white text, pine reaches a contrast ratio of 7.73 to 1, so it works well for a dark header. Other greens close to it are hunter green and fern green.

Pine in a user interface

A sample app screen with #2B5D34 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #2B5D34 as it is. On the dark theme, #2B5D34 is too hard to read as text (2.30:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #598C60 there (4.52:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Pine

These schemes turn the hue of #2B5D34 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#2B5D34#5D2B54

Analogous

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

Open palette
#3B5D2Bthis#2B5D34#2B5D4D

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#2B5D34#342B5D#5D342B

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#2B5D34#4D2B5D#5D2B3B

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#2B5D34#2B545D#5D2B54#5D342B

Square

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

Open palette
this#2B5D34#2B3B5D#5D2B54#5D4D2B

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#204627#3A7E47#59B269#92CD9D#CBE7D0

Gradients with Pine

Four CSS gradients made from #2B5D34. 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, #D2DDD3, #2B5D34);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #2B5D34, #051407);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3B5D2B, #2B5D34, #2B5D4D);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2B5D34, #31464C, #342B5D);

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Shades, tints and tones of Pine

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)

Pine sits at step 700. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    EAFDEC
  2. 100
    DCF5DE
  3. 200
    C4E5C7
  4. 300
    A3CEA7
  5. 400
    80B286
  6. 500
    619568
  7. 600
    48794F
  8. 700
    2B5D34
  9. 800
    274C2D
  10. 900
    1C3820
  11. 950
    122114

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #2B5D34 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6002 Leaf green#276235, nearly the same (ΔE 1.6)Tailwind CSSgreen-800 #166534, very close (ΔE 2.8)CSS color namesdarkgreen #006400, close (ΔE 6.3)

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.