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#bdfbe6

a pale, electric green · cool · closest name: Pale Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Chalk Basil

RGB
189, 251, 230
HSL
160°, 89%, 86%
CMYK
25, 0, 8, 2
Luminance
0.8553

#bdfbe6 is a pale electric green, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.11:1). As text it scores 1.16:1 on white — use #08835A instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(160 89% 86%)rgb(189 251 230)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bdfbe6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bdfbe6
Hue
160°
green
Saturation
89%
electric
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8553
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.11:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 8.2
Chroma
23.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.941
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.2
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° 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 #bdfbe6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% 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%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#bdfbe6
HEX (8-digit)#bdfbe6ff
RGBrgb(189, 251, 230)
RGBArgba(189, 251, 230, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 89%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 25%, 98%)
HWBhwb(160 74% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 8%, 2%)
LABlab(94.1 -23.6 3.8)
LCHlch(94.1 23.9 170.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.941 0.069 171.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(69.76, 85.52, 87.68)
Decimal12450790
Display P3color(display-p3 0.741 0.984 0.902)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bdfbe6;
background-color: #bdfbe6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bdfbe6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bdfbe6] bg-[#bdfbe6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bdfbe6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.741, green: 0.984, blue: 0.902)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.741, green: 0.984, blue: 0.902, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BDFBE6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBDFBE6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBDFBE6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(230, 251, 189)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(189, 251, 230)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(189, 251, 230)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 189, 251, 230)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7412f, 0.9843f, 0.9020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{189,251,230}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfbe6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfbe6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#077852, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bdfbe6 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: #F2FDF9;
  --brand-100: #E5FBF3;
  --brand-200: #bdfbe6;
  --brand-300: #95F9D7;
  --brand-400: #60F5C3;
  --brand-500: #2BF2AF;
  --brand-600: #0EE79D;
  --brand-700: #0CC083;
  --brand-800: #099A69;
  --brand-900: #0B6F4D;
  --brand-950: #074530;
  --brand: #bdfbe6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDD;
  --brand-hover: #9BF9D9;
  --brand-pressed: #7AF7CD;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF9',
        100: '#E5FBF3',
        200: '#bdfbe6',
        300: '#95F9D7',
        400: '#60F5C3',
        500: '#2BF2AF',
        600: '#0EE79D',
        700: '#0CC083',
        800: '#099A69',
        900: '#0B6F4D',
        950: '#074530',
        DEFAULT: '#bdfbe6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF9,
  '100': #E5FBF3,
  '200': #bdfbe6,
  '300': #95F9D7,
  '400': #60F5C3,
  '500': #2BF2AF,
  '600': #0EE79D,
  '700': #0CC083,
  '800': #099A69,
  '900': #0B6F4D,
  '950': #074530,
);
$brand-base: #bdfbe6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bdfbe6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#95F9D7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#60F5C3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2BF2AF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0EE79D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0CC083", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#099A69", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0B6F4D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#074530", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bdfbe6 · 18.11:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.16:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.11:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bdfbe6 as text scores 1.16:1 on white and 18.11:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #077852 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
#08835A · 4.77:1
AA on white−59% L
#08835A
The quick fox
#066646 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−65% L
#066646
The quick fox
#bdfbe6 · 18.11:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bdfbe6
The quick fox
#bdfbe6 · 18.11:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bdfbe6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0AA571 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
#bdfbe6 on white: 1.16:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bdfbe6 on black: 18.11:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bdfbe6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bdfbe6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.16:1AaAa
Slate 501.11:1AaAa
Slate 1001.06:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.28:1AaAa
Slate 4002.21:1AaAa
Slate 5004.10:1AaAa
Slate 6006.53:1AaAa
Slate 7008.93:1AaAa
Slate 80012.61:1AaAa
Slate 90015.39:1AaAa
Black18.11:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F7F3E5
deuteranopia · #ECEBE7
tritanopia · #AEFCF5

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. #bdfbe6 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.

#F2FDF9
#E5FBF3
#bdfbe6
#95F9D7
#60F5C3
#2BF2AF
#0EE79D
#0CC083
#099A69
#0B6F4D
#074530
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF9Darkest = 950 · #074530Text 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 0.017 171.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 171.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.041 171.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.053 171.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.063 171.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.069 171.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.069 171.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.064 171.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.058 171.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.048 171.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.038 171.9);
}

Colors that work with #bdfbe6

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#C0EDDD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B80
Captions on the surface
Accent#C30977
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#077852
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#9BF9D9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7AF7CD
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CEFFEE
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 #bdfbe6

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 #077852
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0AA571

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#FBBDD2
Analogous left#BDFBC7
Analogous right#BDF1FB
Split-complement 1#FBBDF1
Split-complement 2#FBC7BD
Triadic 1#E6BDFB
Triadic 2#FBE6BD
Tetradic#C7BDFB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#bdfbe6 sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.1%
Green98.4%
Blue90.2%
R · 0–255
189
0xbd
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
230
0xe6

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow8.4%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 35%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bdfbe6 text on a black background

contrast 18.11:1

Card sample

#bdfbe6 text on a white background

contrast 1.16:1

Card sample

#bdfbe6 on grey

1.06:1

#bdfbe6 on its own surface

1.10:1

#bdfbe6 on its dark surface

13.91:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bdfbe6;
Background color
Panel with #bdfbe6 background
background-color: #bdfbe6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bdfbe6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(189, 251, 230, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(189, 251, 230, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bdfbe6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bdfbe6, #BDE7FB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfbe6, #BDD7FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bdfbe6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bdfbe6;
caret-color: #bdfbe6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bdfbe6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bdfbe6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bdfbe6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bdfbe6 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(189, 251, 230, 0.5)
rgb(189 251 230 / 50%)
#bdfbe680
hsl(160 89% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bdfbe6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bdfbe61a#F8FFFD
20%#bdfbe633#F2FEFA
40%#bdfbe666#E5FDF5
60%#bdfbe699#D7FDF0
80%#bdfbe6cc#CAFCEB

Gradients from #bdfbe6

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, #ECFEF8, #bdfbe6 45%, #077852);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bdfbe6, #A0D5F9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfbe6, #FBBDD2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEFA 0%, #bdfbe6 45%, #077852 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%, #EDFEEF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DAF4FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #077852 0%, transparent 65%), #bdfbe6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bdfbe6

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.

#bdfbe6 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

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.11:1.

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.

#bdfbe6, answered

What color is #bdfbe6?

#bdfbe6 is a pale electric green, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 8.2). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 89% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bdfbe6?

rgb(189, 251, 230) — 189 red, 251 green and 230 blue out of 255, or 74.1% / 98.4% / 90.2% by channel.

What is #bdfbe6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 89%, 86%) and hsv(160, 25%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bdfbe6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8553 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 18.11:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bdfbe6?

Black. It scores 18.11:1 against #bdfbe6, versus 1.16:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bdfbe6 accessible on a white background?

#bdfbe6 on white scores 1.16:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #08835A to reach 4.5:1, or #066646 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bdfbe6?

#FBBDD2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FBBDF1 and #FBC7BD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bdfbe6?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDD for borders, #4B9B80 for secondary text, #C30977 as an accent and #077852 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BDFBC7 and #BDF1FB stays calm, while #FBBDD2 is the loudest partner.

What is #bdfbe6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 8%, 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 #bdfbe6 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BDFBCF; nudged cooler, #BCFAFC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bdfbe6?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bdfbe6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bdfbe6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bdfbe6] or text-[#bdfbe6], 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 #bdfbe6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(189, 251, 230, 0.5), or #bdfbe680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFDF3; over black, #5F7E73.

Is #bdfbe6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 8.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bdfbe6 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 #bdfbe6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECFEF8, #bdfbe6 45%, #077852). For more colour, a short hue run to #A0D5F9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bdfbe6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bdfbe6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.