WhatsApp colors

WhatsApp color codes

Select a color to open its own page with tints, shades, harmonies and every color format, or open the whole set in the palette generator.

Where the WhatsApp colors come from

WhatsApp does not publish hex values in public brand guidelines, so these were read from the code of its live website (stylesheets and the SVG files it serves) on 16 October 2026. They are the colors www.whatsapp.com actually renders, which can differ slightly from print or logo colors.

• Source (live website CSS or SVG): https://www.whatsapp.com/ checked 2026-10-16

WhatsApp color contrast

Black text on WhatsApp green has a contrast ratio of 10.58:1 and passes WCAG AAA for any text size. Used as a text color, WhatsApp green reaches 1.98:1 on white and 10.58:1 on black. Ratios are WCAG 2 (truncated, never rounded up); APCA Lc is shown as a second opinion.

WhatsApp colors in CSS and Tailwind

Copy the WhatsApp palette as CSS custom properties or as a Tailwind CSS v4 theme. The last snippet is an 11-step Tailwind scale (50 to 950) generated in OKLCH from WhatsApp green, for hover states, borders and tinted backgrounds.

:root {
  --whatsapp-green: #25D366;
  --whatsapp-bright-green: #43CD66;
  --whatsapp-dark-green: #103928;
  --whatsapp-cream: #FCF5EB;
  --whatsapp-ink: #111B21;
}

@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-whatsapp-green: #25D366;
  --color-whatsapp-bright-green: #43CD66;
  --color-whatsapp-dark-green: #103928;
  --color-whatsapp-cream: #FCF5EB;
  --color-whatsapp-ink: #111B21;
}

@theme {
  --color-whatsapp-50: #EAFBEC;
  --color-whatsapp-100: #CFF5D6;
  --color-whatsapp-200: #A3EEB2;
  --color-whatsapp-300: #25D366;
  --color-whatsapp-400: #00C058;
  --color-whatsapp-500: #00A54A;
  --color-whatsapp-600: #008B3D;
  --color-whatsapp-700: #007532;
  --color-whatsapp-800: #006028;
  --color-whatsapp-900: #005020;
  --color-whatsapp-950: #003011;
}

Named colors closest to the WhatsApp palette

The nearest named color to each brand color, measured as perceptual distance (ΔE OK) in OKLab. Under 0.02 is hard to tell apart; above 0.05 the difference is easy to see.

How to use a WhatsApp-style palette

• Lead with WhatsApp green #25D366 for buttons, links and key highlights, with black text on it.
• Give most of the layout to Cream #FCF5EB and Ink #111B21, about 60% of the screen, so WhatsApp green stands out.
• Keep Bright green and Dark green for small accents (around 10%): status colors, illustrations or charts.
• As text on a white page, WhatsApp green reaches 1.98:1: it fails WCAG 2 for text there, so keep it for icons, fills and borders.

To see how www.whatsapp.com uses these colors today, including backgrounds, text and dark mode, run it through the website color extractor. To turn WhatsApp green into a full light and dark color system with accessible roles, open it in the Color System Studio.

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