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Named color

Scheele Green

Scheele Green color #478800: RGB 71, 136, 0 and HSL 89°, 100%, 27%. Explore its cool green profile, contrast, CSS, palettes and harmonies.

#478800 green cool jewel-tone
HEX #478800
RGB rgb(71, 136, 0)
HSL hsl(89 100% 27%)
CMYK cmyk(48, 0, 100, 47)
Luminance 0.1895
Contrast Black 4.79:1White 4.38:1

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CSS Utilities

--color-scheeles-green: #478800;
.bg-scheeles-green { background-color: #478800; }
.text-scheeles-green { color: #478800; }
Open CSS utility pageReusable variables, classes, examples, and implementation notes

Color history, meaning and use · Editorially reviewed

About Scheele Green Color

Scheele’s Green emerged from eighteenth-century chemical experimentation and became known for a vivid color paired with a serious material problem: the historic pigment contained arsenic. Its story is a reminder that the expansion of the manufactured palette also introduced substances whose visual appeal concealed real toxicity.

As a digital reference, Scheele’s Green can evoke archival print, pigment history, or an intentionally acidic botanical green. The historical warning should remain explicit: a CSS color has no arsenic, but an old painted, printed, or decorative object cannot be judged safe from its color name or appearance alone.

This page describes emitted screen color only and must not be used as handling or conservation advice for historical green materials.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Scheele Green against black and white text.

Black text4.79:1AA Pass
White text4.38:1AA Fail
AA text options#000000
AAA text optionsNone in seed set
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Downloadable color reference infographic

Scheele Green Color Reference Infographic

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Scheele Green color reference infographic showing #478800, RGB and HSL values, a coordinated palette, and black and white text contrast.
Scheele Green color reference infographic generated from the verified Colors Encyclopedia dataset.
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Color Harmonies

#43008A#43008A#8A8700#8A8700#028A00#028A00#00478A#00478A#8A0047#8A0047
Open full Scheele Green harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#77E600#77E600#182E00#182E00#478A00#478A00#477B0F#477B0F#88ED1D#88ED1D#5CB300#5CB300

Pairings

Black#000000#43008A#43008A#8A8700#8A8700#028A00#028A00Matte Black#1A1A1AWhite Smoke#F5F5F5

Machine-readable data

Machine-Readable Color Data (JSON)

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

AI-Ready Dataset v1.0.0
Luminance0.1895
Black text4.79:1AA Pass
White text4.38:1AA 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
{
  "hex": "#478800",
  "rgb": [
    71,
    136,
    0
  ],
  "hsl": [
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    100,
    27
  ],
  "cmyk": [
    48,
    0,
    100,
    47
  ],
  "luminance": 0.1895,
  "contrast": {
    "black": 4.79,
    "white": 4.38
  }
}
WCAG
{
  "AA": [
    "#000000"
  ],
  "AAA": []
}
Harmonies
{
  "complementary": "#43008A",
  "analogous": [
    "#8A8700",
    "#028A00"
  ],
  "triadic": [
    "#00478A",
    "#8A0047"
  ],
  "tetradic": [
    "#008A87",
    "#43008A",
    "#8A0002"
  ],
  "splitComplementary": [
    "#00028A",
    "#87008A"
  ],
  "monochromatic": [
    "#77E600",
    "#478800",
    "#182E00"
  ]
}
Variants
{
  "light": "#77E600",
  "dark": "#182E00",
  "saturated": "#478A00",
  "desaturated": "#477B0F",
  "pastel": "#88ED1D",
  "neon": "#5CB300"
}
Pairings
{
  "best": [
    "#000000",
    "#43008A",
    "#8A8700",
    "#028A00"
  ],
  "avoid": [
    "#477B0F",
    "#77E600"
  ],
  "neutral": [
    "#1A1A1A",
    "#F5F5F5",
    "#E8E8E4"
  ],
  "highContrast": [
    "#000000"
  ],
  "lowContrast": [
    "#77E600",
    "#477B0F"
  ]
}
Knowledge graph
{
  "nearestColors": [
    "avocado",
    "terre-verte",
    "fern-frond",
    "forest-green",
    "olive-drab"
  ],
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    "scheeles-green-vs-terre-verte"
  ],
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    "/colors/by-temperature/cool",
    "/colors/by-tone/jewel-tone"
  ],
  "relatedTools": [
    "/harmonies/scheeles-green",
    "/wcag/scheeles-green",
    "/css/colors/scheeles-green",
    "/hex/478800",
    "/tools/css-gradient-generator",
    "/tools/color-palette-generator",
    "/tools/css-color-mixer",
    "/tools/contrast-checker"
  ],
  "semanticRelations": {
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      "/colors/by-temperature/cool",
      "/colors/by-tone/jewel-tone"
    ],
    "narrower": [
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    "related": [
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      "/colors/fern-frond",
      "/colors/forest-green",
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      "/tools/color-palette-generator",
      "/tools/css-color-mixer",
      "/tools/contrast-checker"
    ]
  }
}
Full JSON dataset 
{
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  "name": "Scheele Green",
  "hex": "#478800",
  "uses": [
    "historical references",
    "pigment palettes",
    "cultural color systems"
  ],
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    ],
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    ],
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  "sourceType": "curated",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "reviewStatus": "manual",
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  "origin": {
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  },
  "family": "green",
  "temperature": "cool",
  "tone": [
    "jewel-tone"
  ],
  "editorialNotes": "Curated internal color record with computed technical properties.",
  "tags": [
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  ],
  "popularity": 84,
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  "hsl": [
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  "cmyk": [
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    100,
    47
  ],
  "luminance": 0.1895,
  "contrast": {
    "black": 4.79,
    "white": 4.38
  },
  "harmonies": {
    "complementary": "#43008A",
    "analogous": [
      "#8A8700",
      "#028A00"
    ],
    "triadic": [
      "#00478A",
      "#8A0047"
    ],
    "tetradic": [
      "#008A87",
      "#43008A",
      "#8A0002"
    ],
    "splitComplementary": [
      "#00028A",
      "#87008A"
    ],
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      "#77E600",
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    ]
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    "saturated": "#478A00",
    "desaturated": "#477B0F",
    "pastel": "#88ED1D",
    "neon": "#5CB300"
  },
  "wcag": {
    "AA": [
      "#000000"
    ],
    "AAA": []
  },
  "css": {
    "variable": "--color-scheeles-green: #478800;",
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    "textUtility": ".text-scheeles-green { color: #478800; }"
  },
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  ],
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      "#000000",
      "#43008A",
      "#8A8700",
      "#028A00"
    ],
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      "#77E600"
    ],
    "neutral": [
      "#1A1A1A",
      "#F5F5F5",
      "#E8E8E4"
    ],
    "highContrast": [
      "#000000"
    ],
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      "#77E600",
      "#477B0F"
    ]
  }
}
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