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#bcf9cb

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Moss

RGB
188, 249, 203
HSL
135°, 84%, 86%
CMYK
25, 0, 19, 2
Luminance
0.8275

#bcf9cb is a pale electric green, 135° on the wheel and 69/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.55:1). As text it scores 1.20:1 on white — use #0C862A instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(135 84% 86%)rgb(188 249 203)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bcf9cb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bcf9cb
Hue
135°
green
Saturation
84%
electric
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8275
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
69/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.55:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 8.5
Chroma
32.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.929
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 19.8
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue135° of 360°
Saturation84%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bcf9cb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool69% 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%
Green82%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#bcf9cb
HEX (8-digit)#bcf9cbff
RGBrgb(188, 249, 203)
RGBArgba(188, 249, 203, 1)
HSLhsl(135, 84%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(135, 24%, 98%)
HWBhwb(135 74% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 19%, 2%)
LABlab(92.9 -28.0 16.0)
LCHlch(92.9 32.3 150.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.929 0.088 152.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(65.39, 82.75, 69.02)
Decimal12384715
Display P3color(display-p3 0.737 0.976 0.796)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bcf9cb;
background-color: #bcf9cb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bcf9cb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bcf9cb] bg-[#bcf9cb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bcf9cb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.737, green: 0.976, blue: 0.796)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.737, green: 0.976, blue: 0.796, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BCF9CB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBCF9CB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBCF9CB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(203, 249, 188)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(188, 249, 203)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(188, 249, 203)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 188, 249, 203)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7373f, 0.9765f, 0.7961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{188,249,203}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bcf9cb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bcf9cb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0A7525, #D3EED9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bcf9cb 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: #F2FCF5;
  --brand-100: #E6FAEB;
  --brand-200: #bcf9cb;
  --brand-300: #98F6AF;
  --brand-400: #65F187;
  --brand-500: #31ED5F;
  --brand-600: #14E147;
  --brand-700: #11BB3B;
  --brand-800: #0D962F;
  --brand-900: #0E6C25;
  --brand-950: #094417;
  --brand: #bcf9cb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C0EDCB;
  --brand-hover: #9BF6B2;
  --brand-pressed: #7BF398;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142418;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCF5',
        100: '#E6FAEB',
        200: '#bcf9cb',
        300: '#98F6AF',
        400: '#65F187',
        500: '#31ED5F',
        600: '#14E147',
        700: '#11BB3B',
        800: '#0D962F',
        900: '#0E6C25',
        950: '#094417',
        DEFAULT: '#bcf9cb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCF5,
  '100': #E6FAEB,
  '200': #bcf9cb,
  '300': #98F6AF,
  '400': #65F187,
  '500': #31ED5F,
  '600': #14E147,
  '700': #11BB3B,
  '800': #0D962F,
  '900': #0E6C25,
  '950': #094417,
);
$brand-base: #bcf9cb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E6FAEB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bcf9cb", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#98F6AF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#65F187", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#31ED5F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#14E147", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#11BB3B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0D962F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0E6C25", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#094417", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bcf9cb · 17.55:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.20:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.55:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bcf9cb as text scores 1.20:1 on white and 17.55:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0A7525 at 4.90:1.

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
#0C862A · 4.71:1
AA on white−57% L
#0C862A
The quick fox
#096620 · 7.16:1
AAA on white−64% L
#096620
The quick fox
#bcf9cb · 17.55:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bcf9cb
The quick fox
#bcf9cb · 17.55:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bcf9cb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0FAC36 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
#bcf9cb on white: 1.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bcf9cb on black: 17.55:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bcf9cb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bcf9cb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.20:1AaAa
Slate 501.14:1AaAa
Slate 1001.09:1AaAa
Slate 2001.03:1AaAa
Slate 3001.24:1AaAa
Slate 4002.14:1AaAa
Slate 5003.98:1AaAa
Slate 6006.33:1AaAa
Slate 7008.65:1AaAa
Slate 80012.23:1AaAa
Slate 90014.92:1AaAa
Black17.55:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F9EFC8
deuteranopia · #EFE8CD
tritanopia · #B3F7EC

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. #bcf9cb 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.

#F2FCF5
#E6FAEB
#bcf9cb
#98F6AF
#65F187
#31ED5F
#14E147
#11BB3B
#0D962F
#0E6C25
#094417
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FCF5Darkest = 950 · #094417Text 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 0.022 152.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 152.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.053 152.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.068 152.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.081 152.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.088 152.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.088 152.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.082 152.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.074 152.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.061 152.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.048 152.0);
}

Colors that work with #bcf9cb

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#C0EDCB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5E
Captions on the surface
Accent#BE0EBE
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0A7525
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FDED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142418
Dark-mode background
Hover#9BF6B2
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7BF398
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CCFDD8
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 #bcf9cb

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 #0A7525
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0FAC36

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#F9BCEA
Analogous left#CBF9BC
Analogous right#BCF9EA
Split-complement 1#EABCF9
Split-complement 2#F9BCCB
Triadic 1#CBBCF9
Triadic 2#F9CBBC
Tetradic#BCCBF9
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°135°

#bcf9cb sits at 135°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red73.7%
Green97.6%
Blue79.6%
R · 0–255
188
0xbc
G · 0–255
249
0xf9
B · 0–255
203
0xcb

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow18.5%
Key (black)2.4%

Total ink coverage is 45%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bcf9cb text on a black background

contrast 17.55:1

Card sample

#bcf9cb text on a white background

contrast 1.20:1

Card sample

#bcf9cb on grey

1.09:1

#bcf9cb on its own surface

1.13:1

#bcf9cb on its dark surface

13.55:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bcf9cb;
Background color
Panel with #bcf9cb background
background-color: #bcf9cb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bcf9cb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(188, 249, 203, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(188, 249, 203, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bcf9cb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bcf9cb, #BCF9F4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bcf9cb, #BCEFF9);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bcf9cb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bcf9cb;
caret-color: #bcf9cb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bcf9cb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FDED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bcf9cb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bcf9cb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bcf9cb 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, 249, 203, 0.5)
rgb(188 249 203 / 50%)
#bcf9cb80
hsl(135 84% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bcf9cb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bcf9cb1a#F8FEFA
20%#bcf9cb33#F2FEF5
40%#bcf9cb66#E4FDEA
60%#bcf9cb99#D7FBE0
80%#bcf9cbcc#C9FAD5

Gradients from #bcf9cb

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, #ECFDF0, #bcf9cb 45%, #0A7525);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bcf9cb, #A0F7F6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bcf9cb, #F9BCEA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEF4 0%, #bcf9cb 45%, #0A7525 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%, #F1FDEB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D8FCF6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0A7525 0%, transparent 65%), #bcf9cb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bcf9cb

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.

#bcf9cb 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 17.55:1.

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.

#bcf9cb, answered

What color is #bcf9cb?

#bcf9cb is a pale electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 8.5). It sits at 135° on the hue wheel with 84% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bcf9cb?

rgb(188, 249, 203) — 188 red, 249 green and 203 blue out of 255, or 73.7% / 97.6% / 79.6% by channel.

What is #bcf9cb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(135, 84%, 86%) and hsv(135, 24%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bcf9cb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8275 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 17.55:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bcf9cb?

Black. It scores 17.55:1 against #bcf9cb, versus 1.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bcf9cb accessible on a white background?

#bcf9cb on white scores 1.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0C862A to reach 4.5:1, or #096620 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bcf9cb?

#F9BCEA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EABCF9 and #F9BCCB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bcf9cb?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C0EDCB for borders, #4B9B5E for secondary text, #BE0EBE as an accent and #0A7525 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CBF9BC and #BCF9EA stays calm, while #F9BCEA is the loudest partner.

What is #bcf9cb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 19%, 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 #bcf9cb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 69 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C3F9BC; nudged cooler, #BBFAE2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bcf9cb?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 19.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bcf9cb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bcf9cb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bcf9cb] or text-[#bcf9cb], 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 #bcf9cb with 50% opacity?

rgba(188, 249, 203, 0.5), or #bcf9cb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFCE5; over black, #5E7D66.

Is #bcf9cb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 2.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bcf9cb 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 #bcf9cb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECFDF0, #bcf9cb 45%, #0A7525). For more colour, a short hue run to #A0F7F6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bcf9cb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bcf9cb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.