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Malachite Color Codes

Malachite is a light, vivid green with the hex code #0BDA51, RGB values of 11, 218, 81 and an HSL value of hsl(140, 90%, 45%).

HEX#0BDA51
RGB11, 218, 81
HSLhsl(140, 90%, 45%)
HSV140°, 95%, 85%
CMYK95%, 0%, 63%, 15%
LAB76.56, -71.54, 53.65
CIELCHuv76.56, 104.34, 132.13°
Nearest Pantone
PMS 802 C ΔE 12.1 · approximate
Nearest CSS name
limegreen ΔE 9.8

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Malachite Color Hex Code

The Malachite color hex code is #0BDA51. Those six digits are three pairs, 0B for red, DA for green and 51 for blue, which is the same triplet a browser reads from the CSS value below.

#0BDA51

Malachite Color RGB Code

The Malachite RGB code is rgb(11, 218, 81). Green carries the most light at 218 of 255, which is what puts this color where it sits on the wheel.

rgb(11, 218, 81)

Malachite Color HSV Code

The Malachite HSV code is 140°, 95%, 85%. Read it as a hue of 140 degrees, 95% saturation and 85% value, which is the form most color pickers use because moving one number changes one thing.

140°, 95%, 85%

Malachite Color CIELChuv Code

The Malachite CIELCHuv code is 76.56, 104.34, 132.13°. Unlike hex or RGB this one is perceptual: lightness 77 means light to the eye rather than to the screen, and chroma 104 is how far it sits from grey.

76.56, 104.34, 132.13°

Tonal scale

What are Malachite 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

Open in the shades & tints generator →

Palettes

What are Malachite Color Palette Codes?

Each of these is a hue rotation from #0BDA51. They are generated, not curated, so they are exact.

Complementary

Rotate a half turn and you land on #DA0B94, a mid-tone, vivid magenta. 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 #2DDA0B and #0BDAB9. Neighbouring hues hold together without effort, which is what makes analogous sets the safe choice for large areas.

Triadic

#510BDA and #DA510B 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: #B90BDA and #DA0B2D. 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 #DA0B94, and #0B2DDA with #DAB90B. The richest of the five and the hardest to balance, so treat this base as the lead and hold the other three well back.

See these on the color wheel →

Accessibility

Contrast checker: is Malachite 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

1.88:1

1.88

contrast ratio on white background

ElementAAAAA
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

Black background

11.16:1

11.16

contrast ratio on black background

ElementAAAAA
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

At 1.88:1 against white, Malachite is a fill color rather than a text color. Use it for surfaces, borders and large display type, and set the copy in ink. Text placed on it should be black, which gives 11.16:1. 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.

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Color vision

How Malachite 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
actual

#969884

Malachite changes substantially here. ΔE 81.2

No working red cones. Reds darken sharply and drift toward the same muddy olive as green.

Deuteranopia

About 1% of men
actual

#8D7F8D

Malachite changes substantially here. ΔE 101.5

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
actual

#37A0A5

Malachite changes substantially here. ΔE 80.0

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
actual

#BDBDBD

Malachite changes substantially here. ΔE 89.4

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, Malachite reads as #8D7F8D. That is a shift of ΔE 101.5, 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 deuteranopia, at ΔE 101.5. 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.

Simulate a whole palette →

Snippets

Using Malachite in code

:root {
  --malachite: #0BDA51;
}

.example {
  color: var(--malachite);
}