Green Color Codes
The color code of Green is Hex #008000, RGB rgb(0, 128, 0), HSL hsl(120, 100%, 25%) and HSB 120°, 100%, 50%. Green is one of the three additive primaries, shown here at part strength. Only the green channel is lit, at 128 of a possible 255, which is what separates this from the brightest version of the same hue. There are more green shades than any one list can hold. The 33 named below each come with a full code set you can copy for design and color grading work.
The family
Different Shades of Green
There are 33 named shades of green here. Each one links to its own page with the full code set. Click any swatch to copy its hex.
What Is the Color Code for Green?
The Green color code has four screen formats and one print format. The screen ones are Hex, RGB, HSL and HSB. The print one is CMYK. All five describe the same green. They differ in what they make easy to change.
What Is the Hex Code for Green?
The hex code for Green is #008000. Hex is the format you use in CSS and in most design tools. The first two digits set red, the next two set green and the last two set blue. In #008000 the green pair is highest at 80 and the blue pair is lowest at 00.
What Is the RGB Code for Green?
The RGB code for Green is rgb(0, 128, 0). RGB counts each channel from 0 to 255. The gap between the strongest and the weakest channel is 128, and that gap is the whole of the color. Close the gap and you get grey.
What Is the HSL / HSB Code for Green?
The HSL code for Green is hsl(120, 100%, 25%) and the HSB code is 120°, 100%, 50%. The hue of 120 degrees is the position on the color wheel, and this family runs from 70°–165°. HSL and HSB are easier to adjust by hand than hex. Move the first number and you change the color. Move the others and you keep the color but change how strong or how light it is.
What Is the CMYK Code for Green?
The CMYK code for Green is 100%, 0%, 100%, 50%. CMYK is for print rather than screens. A screen adds light to make color. Ink takes light away. A green this strong is one of the colors that suffers most in the move, because ink cannot reach the brightness a backlit screen can. Ask a printer for a Pantone reference on anything that has to match exactly.
What Does the Color Green Mean?
Green means permission and growth. Traffic lights, confirmation messages and progress bars use it to say something worked, and it is the standing shorthand for nature and sustainability. In finance it marks a gain, the exact mirror of how red is used in the same charts. How much of that a shade carries depends on how strong it is. Neon Green holds the most chroma here at 132. Sage Green holds the least at 19, and reads as barely tinted by comparison.
Lightest & Darkest Shades of Green
The lightest shade of green is Nyanza at #E9FFDB. The darkest is Lincoln Green at #195905. Everything else on this page sits between those two. If you need a background, start from the light end. If you need text, start from the dark end.
Which Green Is Best for Branding & Design?
It depends what the color has to do. A logo can use any shade because it does not have to pass a contrast test. A button does. Of the 33 shades on this page, 8 are dark enough to carry white text at AA. The questions below cover the cases people ask about most.
Which Green Looks Most Professional for Designs?
Lincoln Green at #195905 is the safest professional pick, with white text on it reaching 8.49:1. It is deep rather than bright, which is what makes it read as considered instead of loud. The most saturated shades further up this page look cheaper at large sizes.
Which Green Shade Increases Attention the Most?
Neon Green at #39FF14 draws the most attention. It carries the highest chroma of any shade here at 132, which is the measure of how far a color sits from grey, and that is what makes it hard to ignore. White text on it only reaches 1.36:1, so use it for the thing you want noticed and not for the thing you want read.
Which Green Should I Use for a Buy / CTA Button?
Use Dark Green at #006400. White text on it scores 7.44:1, which passes AA for button labels. The brighter shades fail that test. Neon Green only reaches 1.36:1 with white on top, so a button in that color has a label people have to squint at. You get the attention and lose the click.
Green color tools
Convert Green Color Codes (Hex, RGB, HSL)
Have a green value in one format and need it in another? Paste #008000 in and you get rgb(0, 128, 0) back, and the result updates as you type. These three cover the jobs that come up most.
#008000→rgb(0, 128, 0)
Hex to RGB
Paste a hex, get the three channels
0, 128, 0→#008000
RGB to Hex
Go the other way for CSS
#008000→hsl(120, 100%, 25%)
Hex to HSL
For adjusting a shade by hand
Find the Green Hex Code in Any Image
Upload an image and click the part you want. The picker reads that exact pixel, which saves guessing at a green in a photograph of foliage, where no two leaves share a value.
#006400
Image Color Picker
Click any pixel in a photo to read its hex
Dark Green
Color Name Finder
Give it a value, get the closest named green
Build a Green Color Palette
Start from #008000, or from any of the 33 shades above. The palette tool pulls colors out of an image. The gradient tool blends two values into a run, and #E9FFDB to #195905 covers this family end to end. The shades and tints tool takes one value and gives you a full scale from it.