Candy Green
#33cc00
Light, candy-cool green for calm highlights
About Candy Green
Candy Green is the one that actually pops without feeling like it's trying to kill you. It's brighter and more saturated than Battletoad, but it trades that color's confidence for something sweeter, there's actual yellow in the mix here, which makes it feel less like a status light and more like something you'd want to look at for longer than a second. It's not as aggressive as Corrosive Green's pure electric punch, and it's got way more presence than Blinking Terminal's warm glow.
You'll land it in interfaces where you need color to feel friendly and urgent at the same time. Motion graphics, call-to-action buttons on dark backgrounds, app notifications that shouldn't feel threatening, gaming UI elements where health or success is on the line. It works especially hard in mobile apps and web design where the sweetness matters, where you're asking users to engage rather than react. The saturation keeps it from disappearing at small sizes, and that yellow undertone means it reads warm enough to feel approachable.
Pair it with deep backgrounds and it sings. Pull it onto light neutrals and it needs actual breathing room or it starts looking thin and stretched. It's not a color that shrinks well.
Code snippets
Copy this color into your project.
Contrast checker
WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
Variations
Shades
Darker variations, created by mixing toward black.
Tints
Lighter variations, created by mixing toward white.
Tones
Muted variations, created by reducing saturation.
Hues
Hue rotations around the color wheel.
Temperatures
Warm and cool shifts of this color.
Color harmonies
Suggested palettes
Palettes built around this color.
Community palettes
Published palettes that include this color.