Dark Green color (#006400)
Dark Green is one of the 148 CSS named colors. Use the keyword darkgreen
anywhere CSS accepts a color, or its hex code #006400, which is rgb(0, 100, 0) in RGB.
It is a dark, vivid cool color with a hue angle of 120° on the HSL color wheel and a perceived lightness of 44% in OKLCH. On a dark green background, white text gives the higher contrast at 7.43:1, which passes WCAG AA for normal text.
Dark Green color codes
| CSS name | darkgreen |
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|---|---|---|
| HEX | #006400 |
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| HEX (8-digit) | #006400FF |
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| RGB | rgb(0, 100, 0) |
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| HSL | hsl(120, 100%, 20%) |
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| HSV / HSB | hsv(120, 100%, 39%) |
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| OKLCH | oklch(43.6% 0.1484 142.5) |
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| CMYK | cmyk(100%, 0%, 100%, 60.8%) |
Contrast with white and black
WCAG 2 contrast ratios and APCA lightness contrast (Lc) for dark green used as text and as a background.
Tints and shades of dark green
Tints mix dark green with white; shades mix it with black, in 10% steps. Click a swatch to copy it, or build custom scales in the tint & shade generator.
Tints
Shades
Colors that go with dark green
Harmonies calculated on the HSL color wheel. Explore more in the color scheme generator.
Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split-Complementary
Dark Green with color blindness
Approximately how dark green appears with each type of color vision deficiency. Test full designs with the color blindness simulator.
Using dark green in CSS
.element {
color: darkgreen;
background-color: #006400;
border-color: rgb(0 100 0 / 50%);
outline-color: oklch(43.6% 0.1484 142.5);
}Similar named colors
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