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#7eceb3

a light, soft green · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Meadow Jade

RGB
126, 206, 179
HSL
160°, 45%, 65%
CMYK
39, 0, 13, 19
Luminance
0.5183

#7eceb3 is a light soft green, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.37:1). As text it scores 1.85:1 on white — use #318266 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(160 45% 65%)rgb(126 206 179)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7eceb3 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7eceb3
Hue
160°
green
Saturation
45%
soft
Lightness
65%
light
Brightness
81%
HSV value
Perceived
72%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5183
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
11.37:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 3.4
Chroma
31.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.792
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 9.9
Web-safe
#66CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° of 360°
Saturation45%
Lightness65%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7eceb3.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red9%
Green85%
Blue6%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#7eceb3
HEX (8-digit)#7eceb3ff
RGBrgb(126, 206, 179)
RGBArgba(126, 206, 179, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 45%, 65%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 39%, 81%)
HWBhwb(160 49% 19%)
CMYKcmyk(39%, 0%, 13%, 19%)
LABlab(77.2 -30.7 5.7)
LCHlch(77.2 31.2 169.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.792 0.088 170.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(38.81, 51.83, 50.60)
Decimal8310451
Display P3color(display-p3 0.494 0.808 0.702)
Web-safe#66CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7eceb3;
background-color: #7eceb3;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7eceb3;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7eceb3] bg-[#7eceb3]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7eceb3;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.494, green: 0.808, blue: 0.702)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.494, green: 0.808, blue: 0.702, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7ECEB3</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7ECEB3)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7ECEB3)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(179, 206, 126)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(126, 206, 179)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(126, 206, 179)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 126, 206, 179)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4941f, 0.8078f, 0.7020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{126,206,179}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7eceb3 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7eceb3 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#235C49, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7eceb3 h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F5FAF8;
  --brand-100: #EAF5F1;
  --brand-200: #D1EBE2;
  --brand-300: #AEE0CF;
  --brand-400: #7eceb3;
  --brand-500: #5CC19F;
  --brand-600: #43B18C;
  --brand-700: #389475;
  --brand-800: #2D765D;
  --brand-900: #245645;
  --brand-950: #16362B;
  --brand: #7eceb3;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C4E9DC;
  --brand-hover: #64C4A4;
  --brand-pressed: #4ABA94;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF8',
        100: '#EAF5F1',
        200: '#D1EBE2',
        300: '#AEE0CF',
        400: '#7eceb3',
        500: '#5CC19F',
        600: '#43B18C',
        700: '#389475',
        800: '#2D765D',
        900: '#245645',
        950: '#16362B',
        DEFAULT: '#7eceb3',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF8,
  '100': #EAF5F1,
  '200': #D1EBE2,
  '300': #AEE0CF,
  '400': #7eceb3,
  '500': #5CC19F,
  '600': #43B18C,
  '700': #389475,
  '800': #2D765D,
  '900': #245645,
  '950': #16362B,
);
$brand-base: #7eceb3;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D1EBE2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#AEE0CF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7eceb3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5CC19F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#43B18C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#389475", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2D765D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#245645", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#16362B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#000000 on #7eceb3 · 11.37:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.85:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.37:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7eceb3 as text scores 1.85:1 on white and 11.37:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #235C49 at 4.21:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#318266 · 4.65:1
AA on white−30% L
#318266
The quick fox
#25604C · 7.35:1
AAA on white−39% L
#25604C
The quick fox
#7eceb3 · 11.37:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7eceb3
The quick fox
#7eceb3 · 11.37:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7eceb3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3EA381 is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#7eceb3 on white: 1.85:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7eceb3 on black: 11.37:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7eceb3 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7eceb3.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.85:1AaAa
Slate 501.77:1AaAa
Slate 1001.69:1AaAa
Slate 2001.50:1AaAa
Slate 3001.24:1AaAa
Slate 4001.39:1AaAa
Slate 5002.58:1AaAa
Slate 6004.10:1AaAa
Slate 7005.60:1AaAa
Slate 8007.92:1AaAa
Slate 9009.66:1AaAa
Black11.37:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CAC4B2
deuteranopia · #BCBBB5
tritanopia · #66CFC6

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #7eceb3 is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAF8
#EAF5F1
#D1EBE2
#AEE0CF
#7eceb3
#5CC19F
#43B18C
#389475
#2D765D
#245645
#16362B
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF8Darkest = 950 · #16362BText step on white = 800
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.022 170.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 170.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.053 170.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.069 170.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.081 170.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.088 170.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.088 170.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.083 170.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.074 170.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.062 170.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.049 170.4);
}

Colors that work with #7eceb3

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C4E9DC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B80
Captions on the surface
Accent#98346F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#235C49
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF8F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#64C4A4
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4ABA94
Two steps down
Disabled#D7E5E0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#85DBBE
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7eceb3

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • White text placed on it
  • Status meaning — pair it with an icon or label, never colour alone
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #235C49
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3EA381

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

safegrowingnaturalpermissive

Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight35/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#CE7E99
Analogous left#7ECE8B
Analogous right#7EC1CE
Split-complement 1#CE7EC1
Split-complement 2#CE8B7E
Triadic 1#B37ECE
Triadic 2#CEB37E
Tetradic#8B7ECE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#7eceb3 sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red49.4%
Green80.8%
Blue70.2%
R · 0–255
126
0x7e
G · 0–255
206
0xce
B · 0–255
179
0xb3

CMYK percentages

Cyan38.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow13.1%
Key (black)19.2%

Total ink coverage is 71%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7eceb3 text on a black background

contrast 11.37:1

Card sample

#7eceb3 text on a white background

contrast 1.85:1

Card sample

#7eceb3 on grey

1.69:1

#7eceb3 on its own surface

1.75:1

#7eceb3 on its dark surface

8.73:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7eceb3;
Background color
Panel with #7eceb3 background
background-color: #7eceb3;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7eceb3;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(126, 206, 179, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(126, 206, 179, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7eceb3;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7eceb3, #7EB4CE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eceb3, #7EA0CE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7eceb3;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7eceb3;
caret-color: #7eceb3;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7eceb3;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF8F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7eceb3;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7eceb3 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7eceb3 over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(126, 206, 179, 0.5)
rgb(126 206 179 / 50%)
#7eceb380
hsl(160 45% 65% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7eceb3 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7eceb31a#F2FAF7
20%#7eceb333#E5F5F0
40%#7eceb366#CBEBE1
60%#7eceb399#B2E2D1
80%#7eceb3cc#98D8C2

Gradients from #7eceb3

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #AADFCD, #7eceb3 45%, #235C49);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7eceb3, #689FC6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7eceb3, #CE7E99);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C1E7DA 0%, #7eceb3 45%, #235C49 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #A3DCA7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #94C6D6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #235C49 0%, transparent 65%), #7eceb3;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7eceb3

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#7eceb3 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
SustainabilityFinanceHealth and wellnessAgriculture
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 11.37:1.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#7eceb3, answered

What color is #7eceb3?

#7eceb3 is a light soft green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 3.4). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 45% saturation and 65% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7eceb3?

rgb(126, 206, 179) — 126 red, 206 green and 179 blue out of 255, or 49.4% / 80.8% / 70.2% by channel.

What is #7eceb3 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 45%, 65%) and hsv(160, 39%, 81%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7eceb3 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5183 and perceived brightness is 72%, so black text on it reaches 11.37:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7eceb3?

Black. It scores 11.37:1 against #7eceb3, versus 1.85:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7eceb3 accessible on a white background?

#7eceb3 on white scores 1.85:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #318266 to reach 4.5:1, or #25604C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7eceb3?

#CE7E99 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CE7EC1 and #CE8B7E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7eceb3?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C4E9DC for borders, #4B9B80 for secondary text, #98346F as an accent and #235C49 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7ECE8B and #7EC1CE stays calm, while #CE7E99 is the loudest partner.

What is #7eceb3 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(39%, 0%, 13%, 19%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7eceb3 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7ECE96; nudged cooler, #7CCDD0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7eceb3?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 9.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7eceb3 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7eceb3 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7eceb3] or text-[#7eceb3], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #7eceb3 with 50% opacity?

rgba(126, 206, 179, 0.5), or #7eceb380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BFE7D9; over black, #3F675A.

Is #7eceb3 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CCCC, ΔE2000 10.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7eceb3 mean?

As a green, it reads safe, growing, natural. Green means go, well, and grown. It carries finance, sustainability and health with almost no explanation needed. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #7eceb3?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #AADFCD, #7eceb3 45%, #235C49). For more colour, a short hue run to #689FC6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7eceb3 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7eceb3 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.