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#bafbe0

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Basil

RGB
186, 251, 224
HSL
155°, 89%, 86%
CMYK
26, 0, 11, 2
Luminance
0.8482

#bafbe0 is a pale electric green, 155° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.96:1). As text it scores 1.17:1 on white — use #088651 instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(155 89% 86%)rgb(186 251 224)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bafbe0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bafbe0
Hue
155°
green
Saturation
89%
electric
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8482
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.96:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 7.8
Chroma
26.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.937
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.2
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue155° of 360°
Saturation89%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bafbe0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool77% 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
Red12%
Green81%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#bafbe0
HEX (8-digit)#bafbe0ff
RGBrgb(186, 251, 224)
RGBArgba(186, 251, 224, 1)
HSLhsl(155, 89%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(155, 26%, 98%)
HWBhwb(155 73% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(26%, 0%, 11%, 2%)
LABlab(93.8 -25.7 6.4)
LCHlch(93.8 26.4 166.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.937 0.075 167.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.20, 84.81, 83.28)
Decimal12254176
Display P3color(display-p3 0.729 0.984 0.878)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bafbe0;
background-color: #bafbe0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bafbe0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bafbe0] bg-[#bafbe0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bafbe0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.729, green: 0.984, blue: 0.878)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.729, green: 0.984, blue: 0.878, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BAFBE0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBAFBE0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBAFBE0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(224, 251, 186)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(186, 251, 224)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(186, 251, 224)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 186, 251, 224)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7294f, 0.9843f, 0.8784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{186,251,224}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bafbe0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bafbe0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#077849, #D3EEE3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bafbe0 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: #F2FDF8;
  --brand-100: #E5FBF2;
  --brand-200: #bafbe0;
  --brand-300: #95F9CF;
  --brand-400: #60F6B8;
  --brand-500: #2BF3A0;
  --brand-600: #0DE78D;
  --brand-700: #0BC175;
  --brand-800: #099A5E;
  --brand-900: #0B6F46;
  --brand-950: #07462C;
  --brand: #bafbe0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDA;
  --brand-hover: #98F9D1;
  --brand-pressed: #77F7C2;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF8',
        100: '#E5FBF2',
        200: '#bafbe0',
        300: '#95F9CF',
        400: '#60F6B8',
        500: '#2BF3A0',
        600: '#0DE78D',
        700: '#0BC175',
        800: '#099A5E',
        900: '#0B6F46',
        950: '#07462C',
        DEFAULT: '#bafbe0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF8,
  '100': #E5FBF2,
  '200': #bafbe0,
  '300': #95F9CF,
  '400': #60F6B8,
  '500': #2BF3A0,
  '600': #0DE78D,
  '700': #0BC175,
  '800': #099A5E,
  '900': #0B6F46,
  '950': #07462C,
);
$brand-base: #bafbe0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FBF2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bafbe0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#95F9CF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#60F6B8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2BF3A0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0DE78D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0BC175", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#099A5E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0B6F46", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#07462C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bafbe0 · 17.96:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.17:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.96:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bafbe0 as text scores 1.17:1 on white and 17.96:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #077849 at 4.74:1.

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
#088651 · 4.63:1
AA on white−58% L
#088651
The quick fox
#06643D · 7.25:1
AAA on white−65% L
#06643D
The quick fox
#bafbe0 · 17.96:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bafbe0
The quick fox
#bafbe0 · 17.96:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bafbe0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0AA766 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
#bafbe0 on white: 1.17:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bafbe0 on black: 17.96:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bafbe0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bafbe0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.17:1AaAa
Slate 501.12:1AaAa
Slate 1001.07:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.27:1AaAa
Slate 4002.19:1AaAa
Slate 5004.07:1AaAa
Slate 6006.48:1AaAa
Slate 7008.86:1AaAa
Slate 80012.51:1AaAa
Slate 90015.27:1AaAa
Black17.96:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F8F2DF
deuteranopia · #ECEAE2
tritanopia · #ABFCF3

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. #bafbe0 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.

#F2FDF8
#E5FBF2
#bafbe0
#95F9CF
#60F6B8
#2BF3A0
#0DE78D
#0BC175
#099A5E
#0B6F46
#07462C
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF8Darkest = 950 · #07462CText 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 0.019 167.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.030 167.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.045 167.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.058 167.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.069 167.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.075 167.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.075 167.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.070 167.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.063 167.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.052 167.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.041 167.2);
}

Colors that work with #bafbe0

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#C0EDDA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B7A
Captions on the surface
Accent#C40886
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#077849
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#98F9D1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#77F7C2
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CBFFE9
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

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #bafbe0

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 #077849
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0AA766

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight14/100
  • 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#FBBAD5
Analogous left#BAFBC0
Analogous right#BAF5FB
Split-complement 1#FBBAF5
Split-complement 2#FBC0BA
Triadic 1#E0BAFB
Triadic 2#FBE0BA
Tetradic#C0BAFB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°155°

#bafbe0 sits at 155°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red72.9%
Green98.4%
Blue87.8%
R · 0–255
186
0xba
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
224
0xe0

CMYK percentages

Cyan25.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.8%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 38%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bafbe0 text on a black background

contrast 17.96:1

Card sample

#bafbe0 text on a white background

contrast 1.17:1

Card sample

#bafbe0 on grey

1.07:1

#bafbe0 on its own surface

1.11:1

#bafbe0 on its dark surface

13.82:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bafbe0;
Background color
Panel with #bafbe0 background
background-color: #bafbe0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bafbe0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(186, 251, 224, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(186, 251, 224, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bafbe0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bafbe0, #BAEBFB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bafbe0, #BADAFB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bafbe0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bafbe0;
caret-color: #bafbe0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bafbe0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bafbe0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bafbe0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bafbe0 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(186, 251, 224, 0.5)
rgb(186 251 224 / 50%)
#bafbe080
hsl(155 89% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bafbe0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bafbe01a#F8FFFC
20%#bafbe033#F1FEF9
40%#bafbe066#E3FDF3
60%#bafbe099#D6FDEC
80%#bafbe0cc#C8FCE6

Gradients from #bafbe0

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, #ECFEF6, #bafbe0 45%, #077849);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bafbe0, #9DDAF9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bafbe0, #FBBAD5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEF9 0%, #bafbe0 45%, #077849 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%, #EAFEEA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D7F6FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #077849 0%, transparent 65%), #bafbe0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bafbe0

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.

#bafbe0 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 17.96:1.

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.

#bafbe0, answered

What color is #bafbe0?

#bafbe0 is a pale electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 7.8). It sits at 155° on the hue wheel with 89% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bafbe0?

rgb(186, 251, 224) — 186 red, 251 green and 224 blue out of 255, or 72.9% / 98.4% / 87.8% by channel.

What is #bafbe0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(155, 89%, 86%) and hsv(155, 26%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bafbe0 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8482 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 17.96:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bafbe0?

Black. It scores 17.96:1 against #bafbe0, versus 1.17:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bafbe0 accessible on a white background?

#bafbe0 on white scores 1.17:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #088651 to reach 4.5:1, or #06643D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bafbe0?

#FBBAD5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FBBAF5 and #FBC0BA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bafbe0?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDA for borders, #4B9B7A for secondary text, #C40886 as an accent and #077849 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BAFBC0 and #BAF5FB stays calm, while #FBBAD5 is the loudest partner.

What is #bafbe0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(26%, 0%, 11%, 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 #bafbe0 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 77 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BAFBC8; nudged cooler, #B9FCF9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bafbe0?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bafbe0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bafbe0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bafbe0] or text-[#bafbe0], 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 #bafbe0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(186, 251, 224, 0.5), or #bafbe080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DDFDF0; over black, #5D7E70.

Is #bafbe0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 7.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bafbe0 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 #bafbe0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECFEF6, #bafbe0 45%, #077849). For more colour, a short hue run to #9DDAF9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bafbe0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bafbe0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.