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Tailwind green-950

Tailwind green-950 is oklch(26.6% 0.065 152.934) in Tailwind CSS 4.3.3, which is #032e15 in hex and rgb(3 46 21). White text on it reaches 14.94:1, passing WCAG AAA. Recolor (recolor.page) shows it on a real page below.

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#032e15green-950
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-green-950), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(26.6% 0.065 152.934)
Hex#032e15
RGBrgb(3 46 21)
HSLhsl(145 88% 10%)
CSS variablevar(--color-green-950)
Nearest CSS namedarkslategray #2f4f4f, 0.145 away in OKLab
White text14.94:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.41:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About green-950

Tailwind green-950 is a vivid very dark green: OKLCH lightness 26.6%, chroma 0.065, hue 152.9 degrees. Green-950 is the last and darkest of the eleven green shades, 12.7 points under green-900.

Its HSL lightness, 10%, says little about how light green-950 looks; OKLCH, made to match the eye, measures 26.6%, 17 points away. Its value fits inside sRGB, so #032e15 is the same color, not an approximation.

White text on green-950 measures 14.94:1, past the 7:1 of WCAG AAA, while black text manages only 1.41:1. On the green scale white text works from green-700 to green-950; green-950 has 3 shades of margin.

CSS has no keyword in its neighborhood; darkslategray (#2f4f4f) is the nearest, a long 0.145 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #d2d9d3
  2. #a6b4a9
  3. #7c9081
  4. #536e5a
  5. #2d4d36
  6. #032e15
  7. #02220e
  8. #011607
  9. #000b03
  10. #000301

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 4 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #032e15
  2. #68976d
  3. #fedbfa
  4. #3c6147
  5. #9cbc9f

Recolor's generator, with green-950 locked as swatch 1 and the seed taken from its hex, drew a complementary palette, built on the hue opposite: #68976d, #fedbfa, #3c6147, #9cbc9f. Open it in Recolor.

Using green-950

Pair it with text-white, 14.94:1; green-950 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-green-950).

HTML
<a class="bg-green-950 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-green-950">Text in green-950</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind green-950?

Yes. White text measures 14.94:1 on green-950, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind green-950 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-green-950: oklch(26.6% 0.065 152.934); #032e15 is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind green-950?

No. The nearest CSS named color is darkslategray (#2f4f4f), 0.145 away in OKLab.

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