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Pictured: Neon green, the closest color we have a photo of (#39FF14)
rgb(85, 255, 34)
#55FF22

Traffic Green #55FF22 RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Traffic Green (#55FF22) is a very vivid, light green. In RGB it is made of 33% red, 100% green and 13% blue (R 85, G 255, B 34). The green channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 106°, 100% saturation and 57% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.736, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 67% cyan, 0% magenta, 87% yellow and 0% 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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Traffic Green color codes

#55FF22 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #55FF22 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(85, 255, 34) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(106, 100%, 57%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(106, 87%, 100%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(106 13% 0%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(67%, 0%, 87%, 0%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(87.75% 0.2755 140.33) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(87.75% -0.2121 0.1759) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(88.83% -70.74 78.64) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(88.83% 105.78 131.97) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.5393 0.9866 0.3292) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.3979 0.7356 0.1362) Valid CSS
Decimal 5635874 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7357. Nearest web-safe color: #66FF33.

Mix Traffic Green with other colors

See what #55FF22 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.

PaintTraffic Green and red paintOpen in the color mixer
LightTraffic Green and green lightOpen in the color mixer
PrintTraffic Green and cyan inkOpen in the color mixer
DigitalTraffic Green blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Traffic Green 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--traffic-green: #55FF22;
Sass variable$traffic-green: #55FF22;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-traffic-green: #55FF22; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'traffic-green': '#55FF22' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.333, green: 1, blue: 0.133)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.333, green: 1, blue: 0.133, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="traffic_green">#FF55FF22</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFF55FF22)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #55FF22 (15.71:1, AAA). Here is how #55FF22 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.34:1 on white
APCA Lc 16
Fails AATry #258900
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
15.71:1 on black
APCA Lc -88
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 Traffic Green

#55FF22 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

#55FF22 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 Traffic Green

A name from the RAL chart

Traffic green is RAL 6024, a paint color in the German RAL Classic chart. RAL began in 1927 with a set of 40 colors. The chart now has about 210, and many of them are used on warning and traffic signs. That is where the traffic colors get their names.

The Wikipedia list of RAL colours shows RAL 6024 as #008754, a deep blue green. Our RAL chart uses the same code.

This code is much brighter

The traffic green on this page, #55FF22, is a different color. It is a glowing neon green that only a screen can show, more like a traffic light than a painted sign. It comes from an open online name list, not from RAL. Close matches are harlequin and neon green.

Traffic Green in a user interface

A sample app screen with #55FF22 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #55FF22 as it is. On the light theme, #55FF22 is too hard to read as text (1.34:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #258900 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Traffic Green

These schemes turn the hue of #55FF22 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#55FF22#CC22FF

Analogous

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

Open palette
#C4FF22this#55FF22#22FF5D

Triadic

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

Open palette
this#55FF22#2255FF#FF2255

Split complementary

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

Open palette
this#55FF22#5D22FF#FF22C4

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette
this#55FF22#22FFCC#CC22FF#FF2255

Square

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

Open palette
this#55FF22#22C4FF#CC22FF#FF5D22

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#186600#2BB900#45FF0D#84FF60#C4FFB3

Gradients with Traffic Green

Four CSS gradients made from #55FF22. 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, #E6FFE1, #55FF22);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #55FF22, #114803);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #C4FF22, #55FF22, #22FF5D);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #55FF22, #00B7BD, #2255FF);

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Shades, tints and tones of Traffic Green

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)

Traffic Green sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    E7FFE2
  2. 100
    C7FFBC
  3. 200
    55FF22
  4. 300
    61E244
  5. 400
    38C300
  6. 500
    2DA100
  7. 600
    228200
  8. 700
    196700
  9. 800
    125100
  10. 900
    0A3C00
  11. 950
    042500

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #55FF22 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 6038 Luminous green#00F700, very close (ΔE 3.6)Tailwind CSSlime-400 #A3E635, close (ΔE 8.8)CSS color nameslawngreen #7CFC00, very close (ΔE 2.4)

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.