#3CE080

sRGB: 60 / 224 / 128

Forgotten dreams pierce eternal darkness
Immortal legends fade beyond remembrance
Golden visions vanish without farewell

#3CE080 belongs to the green-cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 60 red, 224 green and 128 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 144.9° lands in the green-cyan region. Its 72.6% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 55.7% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (12.17:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 60, 224, 128
HSL: 144.88°, 72.57%, 55.69%
HSV / HSB: 144.88°, 73.21%, 87.84%
CMYK (approx.): 73.21%, 0.00%, 42.86%, 12.16%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 32.414, 55.828, 29.490
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 79.516, -62.376, 35.291
WCAG relative luminance: 0.55830
24-bit decimal: 3989632

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #3CE080 in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 12.17:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.73:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#E03C9C sits half a turn (180°) from #3CE080 on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#3CE080 #E03C9C

Analogous

#4AE03C and #3CE0D2 sit 30° to either side of #3CE080. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#4AE03C #3CE080 #3CE0D2

Triadic

#3CE080, #803CE0 and #E0803C are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#3CE080 #803CE0 #E0803C

Split complementary

Start at #3CE080 and look across the wheel. #D23CE0 and #E03C4A sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#3CE080 #D23CE0 #E03C4A

Square

Starting with #3CE080, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #3C4AE0, #E03C9C, then #E0D23C. Across the square, #3CE080 pairs with #E03C9C, and #3C4AE0 with #E0D23C.

#3CE080 #3C4AE0 #E03C9C #E0D23C

Tetradic

#3CE080 and #E03C9C are opposites, as are #3C9CE0 and #E0803C. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#3CE080 #3C9CE0 #E03C9C #E0803C

Tints

Mixing #3CE080 with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #63E699, keeps 80% of the original. By #D8F9E6, the mixture is 80% white.

#3CE080 #63E699 #8AECB3 #B1F3CC #D8F9E6 #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #3CE080 with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #30B366, keeps 80% of the original. By #0C2D1A, the mixture is 80% black.

#3CE080 #30B366 #24864D #185A33 #0C2D1A #000000

Tones

Mixing #3CE080 with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #4ACD80, keeps 80% of the original. By #729380, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#3CE080 #4ACD80 #57BA80 #65A680 #729380 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#3CE080

RGB

rgb(60 224 128)

HSL

hsl(144.878 72.566% 55.686%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #3CE080;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#3CE080 uses 60 red, 224 green and 128 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 23.5%

Green 87.8%

Blue 50.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #3CE080 is 73.2% cyan, 0.0% magenta, 42.9% yellow and 12.2% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 73.2%

Magenta 0.0%

Yellow 42.9%

Black 12.2%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #44DD88. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #4D8 in CSS. For a modern design, keep #3CE080 when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #33CC99, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #44DD88 Nearest web-safe: #33CC99

Gradient to complement

#3CE080 #57C585 #73A989 #8E8E8E #A97393 #C55797 #E03C9C

Color vision previews

Compare how #3CE080 appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#E0CD79

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#CDC087

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#00DDC9

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#BBD37E

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#B2CB84

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#43DD9F

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#C5C5C5

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#95D3A7

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.04519 G 0.74540 B 0.21586

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.44859 G 0.86619 B 0.53836

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.16950 G 0.72216 B 0.25128

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.275 y 0.474 Y 55.828

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 76.471 M % 12.157 Y % 49.804

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

00111100 11100000 10000000