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#5cb985 color: Green Garter

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146°
100%

OKLCH

71.5%
0.118
157°
  • ≈ Mint
  • Emerald
  • Light
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • emerald-500
  • Black 27%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text2.40:1 · Below AALc -52
Black text8.73:1 · AALc 57

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About #5cb985

#5cb985 is a soft light emerald color. In OKLCH it has 71.5% lightness, 0.118 chroma and a hue of 157°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 2.4:1 contrast and black text 8.73:1, so black text reads better.

The closest named color is Green Garter (#61ba85). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is emerald-500.

More light emerald colors

Lighter: #5cb985 mixed with white

  1. 5cb985
  2. 6fc091
  3. 80c79d
  4. 91cea9
  5. a1d5b5
  6. b1dcc1
  7. c1e3cd
  8. d0ead9
  9. e0f1e6
  10. f0f8f2

Darker: #5cb985 mixed with black

  1. 5cb985
  2. 4fa073
  3. 428961
  4. 367150
  5. 2a5b40
  6. 1f4630
  7. 143121
  8. 0a1e13
  9. 030d06
  10. 000201

Calmer: #5cb985 with less saturation

  1. 5cb985
  2. 66b788
  3. 6eb58b
  4. 76b38e
  5. 7eb191
  6. 85af94
  7. 8bac97
  8. 92aa9a
  9. 97a89d
  10. 9da5a0