Vegetation #5CCD97

Vegetation (#5CCD97) is a light, saturated green with an OKLCH hue of 160°, lightness 0.77 and chroma 0.131. It sits on the cool side of the color wheel. In practice it behaves as an accent color: strong in focal moments, dominant over large fields.

Color values

HEX#5CCD97
RGBrgb(92, 205, 151)
HSLhsl(151, 53%, 58%)
HSVhsv(151, 55%, 80%)
CMYKcmyk(55%, 0%, 26%, 20%)
CIE Lablab(74.9 -44.7 17.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.768 0.131 160)

How Vegetation behaves under real light

Under warm 2700K interior light Vegetation shifts subtly: leans toward yellow-green; in north-facing or shaded light it is virtually unchanged. Overall drift across common illuminants is small (max ΔE ≈ 1.9), so it is a lighting-stable choice.

Test Vegetation 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 1.97:1 and against black 10.63:1, so black text is the stronger pairing. That pairing passes WCAG AA for body text. Avoid white text on this color entirely.

Colors that go with Vegetation

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.

#d0ffe4 · #7be2ae · #5ccd97 · #299264 · #006b44 · #00442a

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.

#82f0ec · #67dfc4 · #5ccd97 · #6fb570 · #7b9b4e · #7e8334

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.

#5ccd97 · #63a0ac · #2a8a60 · #006675 · #004c30 · #002c34

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.

#c2dfce · #5ccd97 · #c670aa · #497e63 · #2e5d46 · #1e3c2d

Quiet Support

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

#fbedf6 · #5ccd97 · #8b9d92 · #61585e · #172a20 · #020002

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.

#faeef5 · #d2c4cd · #a697a0 · #2d1c27 · #0a0106 · #5ccd97

Complementary

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

#d3dbb6 · #5ccd97 · #d632a1 · #507251 · #3a3255 · #150623

Split-complementary

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

#e7ccaf · #5ccd97 · #9b777d · #894b9f · #403146 · #0b1404

Triadic

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

#eff1ff · #5ccd97 · #8b90d7 · #953b17 · #461100 · #010010

Tetradic

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

#e8f3ff · #5ccd97 · #649cd6 · #893972 · #371f00 · #060003

Tints, shades & muted variants

Tints

#76D5A5 · #8DDDB3 · #A3E5C1 · #B8EDD0 · #CDF5DE

Shades

#41A979 · #25875C · #006641 · #00452A · #002615

Muted

#75C89D · #89C3A3 · #9ABDA9

Using Vegetation

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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