Vegetarian #22AA00

Vegetarian (#22AA00) is a mid-tone, vivid green with an OKLCH hue of 141°, lightness 0.64 and chroma 0.213. It sits on the transitional side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX#22AA00
RGBrgb(34, 170, 0)
HSLhsl(108, 100%, 33%)
HSVhsv(108, 100%, 67%)
CMYKcmyk(80%, 0%, 100%, 33%)
CIE Lablab(60.9 -60.9 61.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.643 0.213 141)

How Vegetarian behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Vegetarian shifts subtly: leans toward yellow; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1.6), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Vegetarian in the color lighting simulator — sweep it through daylight, warm 2700K light, 4000K LED, and shade alongside the rest of your palette.

Contrast & accessibility

Against white it measures 3.08:1 and against black 6.82:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text.

Colors that go with Vegetarian

Tonal

One color explored: close hues with real lightness and chroma structure, so the palette is the anchor through value rather than a set of colors.

#aaff9e · #72da64 · #22aa00 · #198a00 · #0d6000 · #043a00

Analogous

The anchor's neighbours on the wheel — everything shares an undertone, so the chord carries color without anything having to be muted to get along.

#00cfaa · #00bd74 · #22aa00 · #678900 · #6f6e00 · #6b5700

Shifted

The mid-gap pairing — sage and mustard, terracotta and olive. A foil rotated 40–65° toward warm or cool: too far to be kin, too near to argue, carried by temperature and a deliberate value offset.

#47c1be · #22aa00 · #188700 · #00605f · #064600 · #002626

Contrast

One deliberately opposed voice — a single restrained counterpoint across the wheel, or temperature against temperature where the anchor is too muted to carry a loud opposite.

#a6e69d · #99ba94 · #22aa00 · #a12fb4 · #275c20 · #193a14

Quiet Support

The anchor as the only color in the room. True neutrals or complement-warmed near-neutrals let it stay dominant.

#fcecfe · #9ab097 · #22aa00 · #796e7b · #20361d · #030004

Bright Accent

This color as a ground rather than a subject — its own restraint held across a narrow value band, carrying one saturated voice from the opposite temperature.

#f7eff8 · #cfc5d0 · #a397a4 · #2a1d2c · #08010a · #22aa00

Complementary

The opposite hue on the perceptual wheel, tempered to field strength — warm/cool tension without vibration.

#d4d9b4 · #98ab79 · #22aa00 · #a31d64 · #473659 · #1d0503

Split-complementary

The complement's two neighbours instead of the complement itself — strong contrast with a lower clash risk.

#afdaea · #c38eac · #22aa00 · #5a4ab1 · #304062 · #04110c

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel; the anchor leads and the other two are held at supporting strength.

#ebf2ff · #77a8ff · #22aa00 · #d21736 · #5f0010 · #000012

Tetradic

Two complementary pairs offset by 90° — the richest chord, kept usable by a strict lightness hierarchy.

#e3f5ff · #00b8f5 · #22aa00 · #a736bb · #4e2000 · #050008

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#4EB940 · #6FC762 · #8CD682 · #A8E4A0 · #C4F2BD

Shades

#198C00 · #116F00 · #0A5400 · #033900 · #002100

Muted

#49A53C · #609F57 · #73996D

Using Vegetarian

Its chroma is high enough to carry accents, calls to action, and focal moments; large fields of it will dominate a composition. In palettes it pairs most predictably with its tonal ramp and analogous neighbors; reserve the complementary hue for small, deliberate contrast.

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