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#8cb49d color: Holly Fern

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146°
100%

OKLCH

73.4%
0.054
159°
  • ≈ Sage
  • Emerald
  • Light
  • Muted
  • Dusty
  • Cool
  • olive-400
  • Black 29%

Looks the same on every screen.

White text2.30:1 · Below AALc -50
Black text9.13:1 · AALc 59

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About #8cb49d

#8cb49d is a dusty light emerald color. In OKLCH it has 73.4% lightness, 0.054 chroma and a hue of 159°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 2.3:1 contrast and black text 9.13:1, so black text reads better.

The closest named color is Holly Fern (#8cb299). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is olive-400.

More light emerald colors

Lighter: #8cb49d mixed with white

  1. 8cb49d
  2. 97bba6
  3. a3c3b0
  4. aecaba
  5. b9d2c3
  6. c5d9cd
  7. d0e1d7
  8. dce8e1
  9. e8f0eb
  10. f3f7f5

Darker: #8cb49d mixed with black

  1. 8cb49d
  2. 799c88
  3. 678573
  4. 556e5f
  5. 43584c
  6. 33443a
  7. 233028
  8. 141d18
  9. 070c09
  10. 010201

Calmer: #8cb49d with less saturation

  1. 8cb49d
  2. 8fb39e
  3. 92b29f
  4. 95b1a1
  5. 98b0a2
  6. 9bafa3
  7. 9eada4
  8. a1aca5
  9. a3aba6
  10. a6aaa8