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#bcf6ad

a light, electric green · neutral · closest name: Pale Green

Token name suggestion: Linen Jade

RGB
188, 246, 173
HSL
108°, 80%, 82%
CMYK
24, 0, 30, 4
Luminance
0.7962

#bcf6ad is a light electric green, 108° on the wheel and 57/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.92:1). As text it scores 1.24:1 on white — use #27860F instead. Nearest name is Pale Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(108 80% 82%)rgb(188 246 173)Base step 300AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bcf6ad is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bcf6ad
Hue
108°
green
Saturation
80%
electric
Lightness
82%
light
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7962
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
57/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.92:1
Closest name
Pale Green
ΔE2000 5.9
Chroma
43.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.916
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 16.9
Web-safe
#CCFF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue108° of 360°
Saturation80%
Lightness82%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bcf6ad.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool57% cool

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

Luminance by channel
Red13%
Green83%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#bcf6ad
HEX (8-digit)#bcf6adff
RGBrgb(188, 246, 173)
RGBArgba(188, 246, 173, 1)
HSLhsl(108, 80%, 82%)
HSV / HSBhsv(108, 30%, 96%)
HWBhwb(108 68% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 0%, 30%, 4%)
LABlab(91.5 -31.6 29.4)
LCHlch(91.5 43.1 137.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.916 0.113 139.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(61.24, 79.62, 51.67)
Decimal12383917
Display P3color(display-p3 0.737 0.965 0.678)
Web-safe#CCFF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bcf6ad;
background-color: #bcf6ad;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bcf6ad;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bcf6ad] bg-[#bcf6ad]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bcf6ad;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.737, green: 0.965, blue: 0.678)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.965, blue: 0.678, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BCF6AD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBCF6AD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBCF6AD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(173, 246, 188)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(188, 246, 173)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(188, 246, 173)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 188, 246, 173)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7373f, 0.9647f, 0.6784f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{188,246,173}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bcf6ad 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bcf6ad 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#22730D, #D8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bcf6ad 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: #F5FCF3;
  --brand-100: #EAF9E6;
  --brand-200: #D0F5C6;
  --brand-300: #bcf6ad;
  --brand-400: #83EE67;
  --brand-500: #5AE935;
  --brand-600: #40DD18;
  --brand-700: #36B814;
  --brand-800: #2B9310;
  --brand-900: #236A10;
  --brand-950: #16420A;
  --brand: #bcf6ad;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C9EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #A2F28D;
  --brand-pressed: #88EF6D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #172414;
    --brand-ink: #D8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FCF3',
        100: '#EAF9E6',
        200: '#D0F5C6',
        300: '#bcf6ad',
        400: '#83EE67',
        500: '#5AE935',
        600: '#40DD18',
        700: '#36B814',
        800: '#2B9310',
        900: '#236A10',
        950: '#16420A',
        DEFAULT: '#bcf6ad',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FCF3,
  '100': #EAF9E6,
  '200': #D0F5C6,
  '300': #bcf6ad,
  '400': #83EE67,
  '500': #5AE935,
  '600': #40DD18,
  '700': #36B814,
  '800': #2B9310,
  '900': #236A10,
  '950': #16420A,
);
$brand-base: #bcf6ad;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF9E6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D0F5C6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#bcf6ad", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#83EE67", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5AE935", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#40DD18", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#36B814", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2B9310", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#236A10", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#16420A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bcf6ad · 16.92:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.24:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.92:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bcf6ad as text scores 1.24:1 on white and 16.92:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #22730D at 4.80:1.

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
#27860F · 4.66:1
AA on white−53% L
#27860F
The quick fox
#1E660B · 7.09:1
AAA on white−60% L
#1E660B
The quick fox
#bcf6ad · 16.92:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bcf6ad
The quick fox
#bcf6ad · 16.92:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bcf6ad

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #32AB13 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
#bcf6ad on white: 1.24:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bcf6ad on black: 16.92:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bcf6ad as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bcf6ad.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.24:1AaAa
Slate 501.19:1AaAa
Slate 1001.13:1AaAa
Slate 2001.01:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4002.07:1AaAa
Slate 5003.84:1AaAa
Slate 6006.11:1AaAa
Slate 7008.34:1AaAa
Slate 80011.79:1AaAa
Slate 90014.39:1AaAa
Black16.92:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBEAA8
deuteranopia · #F1E5B1
tritanopia · #B9F1E3

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. #bcf6ad 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.

#F5FCF3
#EAF9E6
#D0F5C6
#bcf6ad
#83EE67
#5AE935
#40DD18
#36B814
#2B9310
#236A10
#16420A
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F5FCF3Darkest = 950 · #16420AText 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 0.028 139.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.045 139.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.068 139.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.088 139.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.104 139.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.113 139.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.113 139.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.107 139.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.095 139.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.079 139.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.062 139.3);
}

Colors that work with #bcf6ad

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#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C9EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5B9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6E10BC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#22730D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECFCE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#172414
Dark-mode background
Hover#A2F28D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#88EF6D
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C9FCBC
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 #bcf6ad

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 #22730D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #32AB13

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
  • Weight18/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#E7ADF6
Analogous left#E1F6AD
Analogous right#ADF6C3
Split-complement 1#C3ADF6
Split-complement 2#F6ADE1
Triadic 1#ADBCF6
Triadic 2#F6ADBC
Tetradic#ADE1F6
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°108°

#bcf6ad sits at 108°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red73.7%
Green96.5%
Blue67.8%
R · 0–255
188
0xbc
G · 0–255
246
0xf6
B · 0–255
173
0xad

CMYK percentages

Cyan23.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.7%
Key (black)3.5%

Total ink coverage is 57%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bcf6ad text on a black background

contrast 16.92:1

Card sample

#bcf6ad text on a white background

contrast 1.24:1

Card sample

#bcf6ad on grey

1.13:1

#bcf6ad on its own surface

1.18:1

#bcf6ad on its dark surface

13.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bcf6ad;
Background color
Panel with #bcf6ad background
background-color: #bcf6ad;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bcf6ad;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(188, 246, 173, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(188, 246, 173, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bcf6ad;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bcf6ad, #ADF6CF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bcf6ad, #ADF6E1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bcf6ad;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bcf6ad;
caret-color: #bcf6ad;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bcf6ad;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECFCE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bcf6ad;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bcf6ad 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bcf6ad 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(188, 246, 173, 0.5)
rgb(188 246 173 / 50%)
#bcf6ad80
hsl(108 80% 82% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bcf6ad 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bcf6ad1a#F8FEF7
20%#bcf6ad33#F2FDEF
40%#bcf6ad66#E4FBDE
60%#bcf6ad99#D7FACE
80%#bcf6adcc#C9F8BD

Gradients from #bcf6ad

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, #E9FCE4, #bcf6ad 45%, #22730D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bcf6ad, #92F3C7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bcf6ad, #E7ADF6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FDF1 0%, #bcf6ad 45%, #22730D 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F4FBDB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C9F9DB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #22730D 0%, transparent 65%), #bcf6ad;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bcf6ad

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.

#bcf6ad 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 16.92:1.

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.

#bcf6ad, answered

What color is #bcf6ad?

#bcf6ad is a light electric green, closest to Pale Green (ΔE2000 5.9). It sits at 108° on the hue wheel with 80% saturation and 82% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #bcf6ad?

rgb(188, 246, 173) — 188 red, 246 green and 173 blue out of 255, or 73.7% / 96.5% / 67.8% by channel.

What is #bcf6ad in HSL and HSV?

hsl(108, 80%, 82%) and hsv(108, 30%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bcf6ad a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7962 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 16.92:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bcf6ad?

Black. It scores 16.92:1 against #bcf6ad, versus 1.24:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bcf6ad accessible on a white background?

#bcf6ad on white scores 1.24:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #27860F to reach 4.5:1, or #1E660B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bcf6ad?

#E7ADF6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C3ADF6 and #F6ADE1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bcf6ad?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #C9EDC0 for borders, #5B9B4B for secondary text, #6E10BC as an accent and #22730D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E1F6AD and #ADF6C3 stays calm, while #E7ADF6 is the loudest partner.

What is #bcf6ad in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 0%, 30%, 4%). 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 #bcf6ad warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 57 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D7F6AD; nudged cooler, #ACF7B8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bcf6ad?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 16.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bcf6ad as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bcf6ad in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bcf6ad] or text-[#bcf6ad], 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 #bcf6ad with 50% opacity?

rgba(188, 246, 173, 0.5), or #bcf6ad80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFBD6; over black, #5E7B57.

Is #bcf6ad a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFF99, ΔE2000 5.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bcf6ad 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 #bcf6ad?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E9FCE4, #bcf6ad 45%, #22730D). For more colour, a short hue run to #92F3C7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bcf6ad in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bcf6ad at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.