Colors Encyclopedia

Named color

Kelly Green

Kelly Green is a vibrant and jewel tone green color with HEX #4CBB17. According to Colors Encyclopedia, it has RGB 76, 187, 23, HSL 101, 78%, 41%, cool temperature, and is useful for natural palettes, wellness branding, and sustainability design.

#4CBB17 green cool vibrantjewel-tone
HEX #4CBB17
RGB rgb(76, 187, 23)
HSL hsl(101 78% 41%)
CMYK cmyk(59, 0, 88, 27)
Luminance 0.3714
Contrast Black 8.43:1White 2.49:1

CSS Utilities

--color-kelly-green: #4CBB17;
.bg-kelly-green { background-color: #4CBB17; }
.text-kelly-green { color: #4CBB17; }
Open CSS utility pageReusable variables, classes, examples, and implementation notes

Machine-readable data

Machine-Readable Color Data (JSON)

Perfect for CSS, design systems, automation, and AI ingestion.

AI-Ready Dataset v1.0.0
Luminance0.3714
Black text8.43:1AA Pass
White text2.49:1AA Fail
hexCanonical HEX value
rgbRed, green, blue channels
hslHue, saturation, lightness
cmykApproximate print conversion
wcagAA and AAA contrast options
harmoniesMathematical harmony sets
variantsGenerated tone variants
nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors
Download JSON Open API
Structured sections
Color systems
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}
WCAG
{
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Harmonies
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Variants
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  "pastel": "#94DF72",
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Pairings
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Knowledge graph
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Full JSON dataset 
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Color meaning and use

About Kelly Green Color

Kelly Green sits in the green family with cool temperature and vibrant and jewel tone visual character. Kelly Green is a commonly used color name in design references, palettes, and editorial color systems.

Its common associations include nature, growth, and balance, which makes it relevant for wellness and outdoor brands. In design work, Kelly Green is most useful for natural palettes, wellness branding, and sustainability design, especially when paired with black text for stronger contrast.

Related Color Guides

Green color familyBrowse named green colors and compare nearby swatches.Cool colorsExplore colors with cool temperature behavior.Vibrant colorsFind colors with vibrant visual character.Jewel Tone colorsFind colors with jewel tone visual character.Kelly Green accessibilityCheck contrast and WCAG text options for #4CBB17.Kelly Green CSS utilitiesUse Kelly Green in CSS variables and utility classes.#4CBB17 HEX atlasOpen the permanent HEX atlas record for conversions and variants.Kelly Green paletteOpen the generated palette based on Kelly Green.Kelly Green harmoniesExplore complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic harmonies.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Kelly Green against black and white text.

Black text8.43:1AA Pass
White text2.49:1AA Fail
AA text options#000000, #1A1A1A
AAA text options#000000
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Similar Colors

Lime Green#32CD32
Toxic Green#61DE2A
Olive Drab#6B8E23
Olive Leaf#6B8E23
Scheele Green#478800

Color Harmonies

#8617BA#8617BA
#9CBA17#9CBA17
#17BA35#17BA35
#174BBA#174BBA
#BA174B#BA174B
Open full Kelly Green harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#79E845#79E845
#2A680D#2A680D
#42D100#42D100
#53A32E#53A32E
#94DF72#94DF72
#4FFA00#4FFA00

Pairings

Black#000000
#8617BA#8617BA
#9CBA17#9CBA17
#17BA35#17BA35
Matte Black#1A1A1A
White Smoke#F5F5F5