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#afe3c4

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

Token name suggestion: Morning Basil

RGB
175, 227, 196
HSL
144°, 48%, 79%
CMYK
23, 0, 14, 11
Luminance
0.6804

#afe3c4 is a light vivid green, 144° on the wheel and 73/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.61:1). As text it scores 1.44:1 on white — use #2E8350 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(144 48% 79%)rgb(175 227 196)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #afe3c4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#afe3c4
Hue
144°
green
Saturation
48%
vivid
Lightness
79%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6804
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
73/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
14.61:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 10
Chroma
24.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.871
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 17.6
Web-safe
#99CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue144° of 360°
Saturation48%
Lightness79%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #afe3c4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool73% 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
Red13%
Green81%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#afe3c4
HEX (8-digit)#afe3c4ff
RGBrgb(175, 227, 196)
RGBArgba(175, 227, 196, 1)
HSLhsl(144, 48%, 79%)
HSV / HSBhsv(144, 23%, 89%)
HWBhwb(144 69% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(23%, 0%, 14%, 11%)
LABlab(86.0 -22.8 9.7)
LCHlch(86.0 24.8 156.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.871 0.069 158.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(55.11, 68.04, 62.44)
Decimal11527108
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 0.890 0.769)
Web-safe#99CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #afe3c4;
background-color: #afe3c4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #afe3c4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#afe3c4] bg-[#afe3c4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #afe3c4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.890, blue: 0.769)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.890, blue: 0.769, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AFE3C4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAFE3C4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAFE3C4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(196, 227, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 227, 196)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 227, 196)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 227, 196)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 0.8902f, 0.7686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,227,196}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #afe3c4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #afe3c4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#215E3A, #D3EEDE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #afe3c4 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: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-100: #EAF5EF;
  --brand-200: #D0ECDB;
  --brand-300: #afe3c4;
  --brand-400: #82D3A3;
  --brand-500: #59C584;
  --brand-600: #40B56F;
  --brand-700: #35975D;
  --brand-800: #2A794A;
  --brand-900: #225838;
  --brand-950: #153723;
  --brand: #afe3c4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C3EAD2;
  --brand-hover: #95DAB0;
  --brand-pressed: #7AD09D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241A;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FAF7',
        100: '#EAF5EF',
        200: '#D0ECDB',
        300: '#afe3c4',
        400: '#82D3A3',
        500: '#59C584',
        600: '#40B56F',
        700: '#35975D',
        800: '#2A794A',
        900: '#225838',
        950: '#153723',
        DEFAULT: '#afe3c4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FAF7,
  '100': #EAF5EF,
  '200': #D0ECDB,
  '300': #afe3c4,
  '400': #82D3A3,
  '500': #59C584,
  '600': #40B56F,
  '700': #35975D,
  '800': #2A794A,
  '900': #225838,
  '950': #153723,
);
$brand-base: #afe3c4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FAF7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5EF", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D0ECDB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#afe3c4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#82D3A3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#59C584", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#40B56F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#35975D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2A794A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#225838", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#153723", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #afe3c4 · 14.61:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.44:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.61:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #afe3c4 as text scores 1.44:1 on white and 14.61:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #215E3A at 5.36:1.

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
#2E8350 · 4.69:1
AA on white−44% L
#2E8350
The quick fox
#22613C · 7.39:1
AAA on white−53% L
#22613C
The quick fox
#afe3c4 · 14.61:1
AA on blackalready passes
#afe3c4
The quick fox
#afe3c4 · 14.61:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#afe3c4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3AA565 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
#afe3c4 on white: 1.44:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#afe3c4 on black: 14.61:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #afe3c4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #afe3c4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.44:1AaAa
Slate 501.37:1AaAa
Slate 1001.31:1AaAa
Slate 2001.17:1AaAa
Slate 3001.03:1AaAa
Slate 4001.78:1AaAa
Slate 5003.31:1AaAa
Slate 6005.27:1AaAa
Slate 7007.20:1AaAa
Slate 80010.18:1AaAa
Slate 90012.42:1AaAa
Black14.61:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E2DBC2
deuteranopia · #D9D5C6
tritanopia · #A6E2DA

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. #afe3c4 is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F4FAF7
#EAF5EF
#D0ECDB
#afe3c4
#82D3A3
#59C584
#40B56F
#35975D
#2A794A
#225838
#153723
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F4FAF7Darkest = 950 · #153723Text 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 0.017 158.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 158.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.041 158.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.054 158.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.063 158.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.069 158.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.069 158.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.064 158.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.058 158.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.048 158.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.038 158.4);
}

Colors that work with #afe3c4

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#F4FAF7
Tinted page background
Border#C3EAD2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B6B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9B318A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#215E3A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8F1
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241A
Dark-mode background
Hover#95DAB0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7AD09D
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BAEDCE
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
Your export is ready

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #afe3c4

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 #215E3A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3AA565

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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-high
  • Weight21/100
  • 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#E3AFCE
Analogous left#B4E3AF
Analogous right#AFE3DE
Split-complement 1#DEAFE3
Split-complement 2#E3AFB4
Triadic 1#C4AFE3
Triadic 2#E3C4AF
Tetradic#AFB4E3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°144°

#afe3c4 sits at 144°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green89.0%
Blue76.9%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
196
0xc4

CMYK percentages

Cyan22.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow13.7%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 48%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#afe3c4 text on a black background

contrast 14.61:1

Card sample

#afe3c4 text on a white background

contrast 1.44:1

Card sample

#afe3c4 on grey

1.31:1

#afe3c4 on its own surface

1.36:1

#afe3c4 on its dark surface

11.26:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #afe3c4;
Background color
Panel with #afe3c4 background
background-color: #afe3c4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #afe3c4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 227, 196, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 227, 196, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #afe3c4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #afe3c4, #AFDFE3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afe3c4, #AFD2E3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #afe3c4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #afe3c4;
caret-color: #afe3c4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #afe3c4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8F1;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #afe3c4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#afe3c4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #afe3c4 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(175, 227, 196, 0.5)
rgb(175 227 196 / 50%)
#afe3c480
hsl(144 48% 79% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #afe3c4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#afe3c41a#F7FCF9
20%#afe3c433#EFF9F3
40%#afe3c466#DFF4E7
60%#afe3c499#CFEEDC
80%#afe3c4cc#BFE9D0

Gradients from #afe3c4

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, #DCF3E5, #afe3c4 45%, #215E3A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #afe3c4, #98D1DB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afe3c4, #E3AFCE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FBF6 0%, #afe3c4 45%, #215E3A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF7, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #DAF0D5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C6EBEA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #215E3A 0%, transparent 65%), #afe3c4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #afe3c4

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.

#afe3c4 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 14.61:1.

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.

#afe3c4, answered

What color is #afe3c4?

#afe3c4 is a light vivid green, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 10). It sits at 144° on the hue wheel with 48% saturation and 79% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #afe3c4?

rgb(175, 227, 196) — 175 red, 227 green and 196 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 89% / 76.9% by channel.

What is #afe3c4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(144, 48%, 79%) and hsv(144, 23%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #afe3c4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6804 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 14.61:1.

Should I use black or white text on #afe3c4?

Black. It scores 14.61:1 against #afe3c4, versus 1.44:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #afe3c4 accessible on a white background?

#afe3c4 on white scores 1.44:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2E8350 to reach 4.5:1, or #22613C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #afe3c4?

#E3AFCE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DEAFE3 and #E3AFB4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #afe3c4?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C3EAD2 for borders, #4B9B6B for secondary text, #9B318A as an accent and #215E3A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #B4E3AF and #AFE3DE stays calm, while #E3AFCE is the loudest partner.

What is #afe3c4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(23%, 0%, 14%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #afe3c4 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 73 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AFE3B1; nudged cooler, #AEE4D8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #afe3c4?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 17.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #afe3c4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #afe3c4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#afe3c4] or text-[#afe3c4], 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 #afe3c4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 227, 196, 0.5), or #afe3c480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D7F1E2; over black, #587262.

Is #afe3c4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CCCC, ΔE2000 12.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #afe3c4 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 #afe3c4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #DCF3E5, #afe3c4 45%, #215E3A). For more colour, a short hue run to #98D1DB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #afe3c4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #afe3c4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.