Lincoln Green Color Codes
Lincoln Green is a dark, vivid green with the hex code #195905, RGB values of 25, 89, 5 and an HSL value of hsl(106, 89%, 18%).
| HEX | #195905 |
|---|---|
| RGB | 25, 89, 5 |
| HSL | hsl(106, 89%, 18%) |
| HSV | 106°, 94%, 35% |
| CMYK | 72%, 0%, 94%, 65% |
| LAB | 32.62, -35.63, 37.49 |
| CIELCHuv | 32.62, 46.83, 124.65° |
- Nearest Pantone
- PMS 364 C ΔE 12.0 · approximate
- Nearest CSS name
-
darkgreenΔE 9.6
Source Wikipedia, List of colors
Lincoln Green Color Hex Code
The Lincoln Green color hex code is #195905. Those six digits are three pairs, 19 for red, 59 for green and 05 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.
#195905
Lincoln Green Color RGB Code
The Lincoln Green RGB code is rgb(25, 89, 5). Green carries the most light at 89 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.
rgb(25, 89, 5)
Lincoln Green Color HSV Code
The Lincoln Green HSV code is 106°, 94%, 35%. Read it as a hue of 106 degrees, 94% saturation and 35% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.
106°, 94%, 35%
Lincoln Green Color CIELChuv Code
The Lincoln Green CIELCHuv code is 32.62, 46.83, 124.65°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 33 means dark to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 47 is how far it sits from grey.
32.62, 46.83, 124.65°
Tonal scale
What are Lincoln Green Color Palettes?
A shade mixes toward black, a tint toward white, a tone toward grey. Every step keeps the hue and is copy-ready.
Shades, toward black
Tints, toward white
Tones, toward grey
Palettes
What are Lincoln Green Color Palette Codes?
Each of these is a hue rotation from #195905. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.
Complementary
Rotate a half turn and you land on #450559, a very dark, vivid purple. Maximum hue distance, which is what makes a complement read as emphasis rather than decoration. Both are saturated, so give the complement much less area than the base or the two will fight.
Analogous
Step 30 degrees in each direction and you get #435905 and #05591B. Neighbouring hues hold together without effort, which is what makes analogous sets the safe choice for large areas.
Triadic
#051959 and #590519 complete an even 120 degree split. Three fully independent hues, so one has to lead: keep this base dominant and let the other two appear in small quantities.
Split-complementary
Instead of the direct complement, this takes the two hues either side of it: #1B0559 and #590543. Almost the same contrast, without the edge shimmer a true complementary pair produces at high saturation.
Tetradic
Two complementary pairs forming a rectangle: this base with #450559, and #054359 with #591B05. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.
Accessibility
Contrast checker: is Lincoln Green accessible?
Measured against white and against black, with a separate verdict for each element type. Small text, large text and UI components have different thresholds, so one pass or fail for the whole color would be wrong roughly a third of the time.
White background
8.49:18.49
contrast ratio on white background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Passes | Passes |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Passes | Passes |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Passes | n/a |
Black background
2.47:12.47
contrast ratio on black background
| Element | AA | AAA |
|---|---|---|
| Small text needs 4.5:1 / 7:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Large text needs 3:1 / 4.5:1 | Fails | Fails |
| UI component needs 3:1 | Fails | n/a |
Lincoln Green clears WCAG AA against white at 8.49:1, so it is safe for body copy as well as headings. Text placed on it should be white, which gives 8.49:1. It is a highly saturated color, so it will dominate anything it sits beside. Give it space rather than surrounding it with other strong colors.
Color vision
How Lincoln Green looks with color blindness
Around 300 million people see color differently from the way it is specified. Each card shows the actual color beside how it appears, and how common that form of vision is.
Protanopia
About 1% of men#3E3F2C
Lincoln Green changes substantially here. ΔE 41.3
No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.
Deuteranopia
About 1% of men#3B3631
Lincoln Green changes substantially here. ΔE 50.7
No working green cones. With the milder deuteranomaly at nearer 6% of men, this is by far the most common form, and the one worth designing around.
Tritanopia
About 1 in 10,000#203B3E
Lincoln Green changes substantially here. ΔE 51.0
No working blue cones. Blues shift toward green and yellows toward pink. Rare, and unlike the others it is not sex-linked, so it affects men and women equally.
Achromatopsia
About 1 in 30,000#4D4D4D
Lincoln Green changes substantially here. ΔE 51.7
No color vision at all. Also a fair proxy for how the color survives a greyscale print or a failing screen.
To a deuteranope, the most common form, Lincoln Green reads as #3B3631. That is a shift of ΔE 50.7, so it is a different color to roughly one man in sixteen. It sits in the green range, the other half of the red-green pair. Against a red of similar lightness it will not read as distinct, so anything depending on that contrast needs a second cue. The widest shift is under tritanopia, at ΔE 51.0. The rule this leads to needs no simulator: never let color be the only thing carrying a message. Add a label, an icon, or a clear difference in lightness, and the problem disappears for everyone.
Snippets
Using Lincoln Green in code
:root {
--lincoln-green: #195905;
}
.example {
color: var(--lincoln-green);
}// tailwind.config.js
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'lincoln-green': '#195905',
},
},
}// SwiftUI takes 0–1 components, not 0–255.
let lincolnGreen = Color(
red: 0.098,
green: 0.349,
blue: 0.020
)<!-- res/values/colors.xml -->
<color name="lincoln_green">#195905</color>// Flutter wants ARGB: FF for full opacity, then the hex.
const lincolnGreen = Color(0xFF195905);