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#acfbc5

a light, electric green · cool · closest name: Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Linen Basil

RGB
172, 251, 197
HSL
139°, 91%, 83%
CMYK
32, 0, 22, 2
Luminance
0.8180

#acfbc5 is a light electric green, 139° on the wheel and 70/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.36:1). As text it scores 1.21:1 on white — use #07882F instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(139 91% 83%)rgb(172 251 197)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #acfbc5 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#acfbc5
Hue
139°
green
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
83%
light
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8180
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
70/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.36:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 6.9
Chroma
39.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.923
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 18.1
Web-safe
#99FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue139° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness83%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #acfbc5.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool70% 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
Red11%
Green84%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#acfbc5
HEX (8-digit)#acfbc5ff
RGBrgb(172, 251, 197)
RGBArgba(172, 251, 197, 1)
HSLhsl(139, 91%, 83%)
HSV / HSBhsv(139, 31%, 98%)
HWBhwb(139 67% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 0%, 22%, 2%)
LABlab(92.5 -34.9 18.3)
LCHlch(92.5 39.5 152.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.923 0.107 154.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(61.59, 81.79, 65.36)
Decimal11336645
Display P3color(display-p3 0.675 0.984 0.773)
Web-safe#99FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #acfbc5;
background-color: #acfbc5;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #acfbc5;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#acfbc5] bg-[#acfbc5]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #acfbc5;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.675, green: 0.984, blue: 0.773)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.675, green: 0.984, blue: 0.773, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ACFBC5</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFACFBC5)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFACFBC5)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(197, 251, 172)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(172, 251, 197)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(172, 251, 197)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 172, 251, 197)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6745f, 0.9843f, 0.7725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{172,251,197}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #acfbc5 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #acfbc5 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#067A2B, #D3EEDB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #acfbc5 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: #F2FDF5;
  --brand-100: #E5FBEC;
  --brand-200: #acfbc5;
  --brand-300: #94FAB4;
  --brand-400: #5EF78F;
  --brand-500: #29F569;
  --brand-600: #0BEA52;
  --brand-700: #09C344;
  --brand-800: #089C36;
  --brand-900: #0A702A;
  --brand-950: #06461B;
  --brand: #acfbc5;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0EDCE;
  --brand-hover: #8AF9AD;
  --brand-pressed: #68F895;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142419;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF5',
        100: '#E5FBEC',
        200: '#acfbc5',
        300: '#94FAB4',
        400: '#5EF78F',
        500: '#29F569',
        600: '#0BEA52',
        700: '#09C344',
        800: '#089C36',
        900: '#0A702A',
        950: '#06461B',
        DEFAULT: '#acfbc5',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF5,
  '100': #E5FBEC,
  '200': #acfbc5,
  '300': #94FAB4,
  '400': #5EF78F,
  '500': #29F569,
  '600': #0BEA52,
  '700': #09C344,
  '800': #089C36,
  '900': #0A702A,
  '950': #06461B,
);
$brand-base: #acfbc5;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FBEC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#acfbc5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94FAB4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5EF78F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#29F569", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0BEA52", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#09C344", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#089C36", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0A702A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#06461B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #acfbc5 · 17.36:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.21:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.36:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #acfbc5 as text scores 1.21:1 on white and 17.36:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #067A2B at 4.54:1.

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
#07882F · 4.59:1
AA on white−55% L
#07882F
The quick fox
#056624 · 7.16:1
AAA on white−62% L
#056624
The quick fox
#acfbc5 · 17.36:1
AA on blackalready passes
#acfbc5
The quick fox
#acfbc5 · 17.36:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#acfbc5

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #08AA3B 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
#acfbc5 on white: 1.21:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#acfbc5 on black: 17.36:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #acfbc5 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #acfbc5.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.21:1AaAa
Slate 501.16:1AaAa
Slate 1001.10:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.23:1AaAa
Slate 4002.12:1AaAa
Slate 5003.93:1AaAa
Slate 6006.26:1AaAa
Slate 7008.56:1AaAa
Slate 80012.09:1AaAa
Slate 90014.76:1AaAa
Black17.36:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBEFC2
deuteranopia · #EEE6C8
tritanopia · #9EF9EC

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. #acfbc5 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FDF5
#E5FBEC
#acfbc5
#94FAB4
#5EF78F
#29F569
#0BEA52
#09C344
#089C36
#0A702A
#06461B
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF5Darkest = 950 · #06461BText step on white = 900
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 0.027 154.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.043 154.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.064 154.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.084 154.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.099 154.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.107 154.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.107 154.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.101 154.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.090 154.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.075 154.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.059 154.0);
}

Colors that work with #acfbc5

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#F4FAF6
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDCE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B64
Captions on the surface
Accent#C705B9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#067A2B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEEE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142419
Dark-mode background
Hover#8AF9AD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#68F895
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BCFFD1
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 #acfbc5

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #067A2B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #08AA3B

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight17/100
  • 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#FBACE2
Analogous left#BAFBAC
Analogous right#ACFBEC
Split-complement 1#ECACFB
Split-complement 2#FBACBA
Triadic 1#C5ACFB
Triadic 2#FBC5AC
Tetradic#ACBAFB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°139°

#acfbc5 sits at 139°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.5%
Green98.4%
Blue77.3%
R · 0–255
172
0xac
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
197
0xc5

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow21.5%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 55%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#acfbc5 text on a black background

contrast 17.36:1

Card sample

#acfbc5 text on a white background

contrast 1.21:1

Card sample

#acfbc5 on grey

1.10:1

#acfbc5 on its own surface

1.14:1

#acfbc5 on its dark surface

13.39:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #acfbc5;
Background color
Panel with #acfbc5 background
background-color: #acfbc5;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #acfbc5;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(172, 251, 197, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(172, 251, 197, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #acfbc5;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #acfbc5, #ACFBFA);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acfbc5, #ACE9FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #acfbc5;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #acfbc5;
caret-color: #acfbc5;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #acfbc5;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEEE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #acfbc5;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#acfbc5 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #acfbc5 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(172, 251, 197, 0.5)
rgb(172 251 197 / 50%)
#acfbc580
hsl(139 91% 83% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #acfbc5 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#acfbc51a#F7FFF9
20%#acfbc533#EEFEF3
40%#acfbc566#DEFDE8
60%#acfbc599#CDFDDC
80%#acfbc5cc#BDFCD1

Gradients from #acfbc5

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, #E6FEEE, #acfbc5 45%, #067A2B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #acfbc5, #8FF2FA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #acfbc5, #FBACE2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FEF5 0%, #acfbc5 45%, #067A2B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF6, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #E5FDDC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C9FCF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #067A2B 0%, transparent 65%), #acfbc5;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #acfbc5

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.

#acfbc5 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 17.36:1.

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.

#acfbc5, answered

What color is #acfbc5?

#acfbc5 is a light electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 6.9). It sits at 139° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 83% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #acfbc5?

rgb(172, 251, 197) — 172 red, 251 green and 197 blue out of 255, or 67.5% / 98.4% / 77.3% by channel.

What is #acfbc5 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(139, 91%, 83%) and hsv(139, 31%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #acfbc5 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8180 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 17.36:1.

Should I use black or white text on #acfbc5?

Black. It scores 17.36:1 against #acfbc5, versus 1.21:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #acfbc5 accessible on a white background?

#acfbc5 on white scores 1.21:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #07882F to reach 4.5:1, or #056624 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #acfbc5?

#FBACE2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ECACFB and #FBACBA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #acfbc5?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0EDCE for borders, #4B9B64 for secondary text, #C705B9 as an accent and #067A2B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BAFBAC and #ACFBEC stays calm, while #FBACE2 is the loudest partner.

What is #acfbc5 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 0%, 22%, 2%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #acfbc5 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 70 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #B0FBAC; nudged cooler, #ABFCE2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #acfbc5?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 18.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #acfbc5 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #acfbc5 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#acfbc5] or text-[#acfbc5], 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 #acfbc5 with 50% opacity?

rgba(172, 251, 197, 0.5), or #acfbc580 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6FDE2; over black, #567E63.

Is #acfbc5 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFCC, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #acfbc5 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 chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #acfbc5?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E6FEEE, #acfbc5 45%, #067A2B). For more colour, a short hue run to #8FF2FA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #acfbc5 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #acfbc5 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.