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#88DD55

#88DD55

Greens · #8d5 is the three-digit shorthand for #88DD55. In CSS the two notations mean the same color.

HEX#88DD55
RGB136, 221, 85
HSL98°, 67%, 60%
CMYK38%, 0%, 62%, 13%
Relative luminance0.58

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Text contrast

Aa

On white

1.68:1 Below AA

Aa

On black

12.52:1 Passes AA

Colours that work with it

Complement

#AB55DD

Analogous

#CBDD55#55DD67

Triadic

#5587DD#DD5587

Shade scale

50100200300400500600700800

Seen with colour blindness

ProtanopiaDeuteranopiaTritanopia

How to read this

  • A hex code writes red, green and blue as two hexadecimal digits each. #ff0000 is red at full strength and the others at zero.
  • HSL states hue (0–360°), saturation and lightness. Nudging a colour brighter means changing one number, which is why it is easier to work with by hand.
  • Text contrast follows WCAG. Body-size text needs 4.5:1 or better, and 21:1 between white and black is the maximum possible.
  • The colour-blindness row computes how this colour appears under three types of colour vision deficiency — the reason never to encode information in colour alone.

Frequently asked questions

Q. Are #8d5 and #88DD55 the same color?

Yes. CSS doubles each digit of a three-digit hex, so #8d5 expands to #88DD55. Only 4,096 colors can be written in three digits, and this is one of them.

Q. What text color works on #88DD55?

Black text. Contrast against white is 1.68:1 and against black 12.52:1, so pick the larger one — WCAG asks for 4.5:1 at body size.

Q. Which named color is closest to #88DD55?

Pistachio. It is not an exact match, so where color matters use the hex code itself rather than the name.

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