Hospital Green #9BE5AA

About this color

#9BE5AA is a light, moderately saturated green. In OKLCH its lightness is 86%, its chroma 0.110 and its hue 150°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Hospital Green. Black text reads best on it, at 14.18:1.

Colors that go with Hospital Green

Matches found by rotating Hospital Green around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Hospital Green

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Hospital Green, closest first.

• Atoll Haven
• Ruby Clasp
• Roller Sunset
• Celadon Room
• Macaron Cloud
• Teal Release

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Hospital Green, with their ΔE distance.

• Light Grey Green #B7E1A1 ΔE 0.030
• Light Teal #90E4C1 ΔE 0.032
• Light Sage #BCECAC ΔE 0.043
• Light Green #90EE90 ΔE 0.049
• Light Turquoise #7EF4CC ΔE 0.050
• Seafoam #80F9AD ΔE 0.056
• Seafoam Green #7AF9AB ΔE 0.058
• Light Blue Green #7EFBB3 ΔE 0.059

More about Hospital Green

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Hospital Green

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts white
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #A4E0AE, a difference of ΔE 0.018 from Hospital Green. That is very close: most people will not see the difference.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Hospital Green in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Hospital Green

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EDF9EF

   oklch(97% 0.018 150.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #D8F2DC

   oklch(93.6% 0.04 149.8)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #9BE5AA

   oklch(85.8% 0.11 149.9)

4. Step 300

   300

   #77DA8F

   oklch(80.9% 0.142 150.1)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00C059

   oklch(70.6% 0.194 150)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A54B

   oklch(63.1% 0.174 149.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008B3E

   oklch(55.6% 0.154 149.9)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007533

   oklch(49.1% 0.136 149.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #006029

   oklch(42.7% 0.118 150)

10. Step 900

    900

    #005021

    oklch(37.7% 0.104 150)

11. Step 950

    950

    #003011

    oklch(27% 0.074 150)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Hospital Green with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.