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Pantone® Color of the Year 2017

Greenery

Pantone® 15-0343 TCX Greenery was named Pantone Color of the Year for 2017. Below: HEX, RGB, HSL and CMYK values, text contrast, palettes built on the color and the closest Pantone® C codes.

Note: The HEX values here are approximate screen values per Wikipedia, not official Pantone® values. Pantone® is a trademark of Pantone LLC; this site is not affiliated with Pantone.

Pantone® 15-0343 Greenery color swatch, approximately #88B04B

Pantone® 15-0343 TCX

  • HEX#88B04B
  • RGBrgb(136, 176, 75)
  • HSLhsl(84, 40%, 49%)
  • CMYKcmyk(23%, 0%, 57%, 31%)

#88B04B is an approximate screen value per Wikipedia — not an official Pantone® value.

Text contrast (WCAG 2)

Aa

White text on Greenery

2.51:1

AA normal: Fail · AA large: Fail · AAA normal: Fail

Aa

Black text on Greenery

8.35:1

AA normal: Pass · AA large: Pass · AAA normal: Pass

Color palettes based on Greenery

Complementary — Opposite colors on the color wheel

  • #88B04B
  • #734BB0

Analogous — Colors adjacent on the color wheel

  • #B0734B
  • #B0A54B
  • #88B04B
  • #56B04B
  • #4BB073

Split Complementary — Base color + two adjacent to its complement

  • #88B04B
  • #4B56B0
  • #A54BB0

Triadic — Three colors evenly spaced on the color wheel

  • #88B04B
  • #4B88B0
  • #B04B88

Monochromatic — Variations of lightness from the same hue

  • #1C240F
  • #536B2E
  • #88B04B
  • #B9D194
  • #E8F0DB

Closest Pantone® C colors

TCX is Pantone's textile system; these are the nearest print (C) codes from our library by Delta E (CIEDE2000). Lower is closer.

CSS

:root {
  --pantone-coy-2017-greenery: #88B04B;
}

.element {
  background-color: var(--pantone-coy-2017-greenery);
}