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#bdfdd8

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Moss

RGB
189, 253, 216
HSL
145°, 94%, 87%
CMYK
25, 0, 15, 1
Luminance
0.8603

#bdfdd8 is a pale electric green, 145° on the wheel and 73/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.21:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #04893C instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(145 94% 87%)rgb(189 253 216)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bdfdd8 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bdfdd8
Hue
145°
green
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8603
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
73/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.21:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 7.6
Chroma
29.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.941
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 20.9
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue145° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bdfdd8.

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%
Green82%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#bdfdd8
HEX (8-digit)#bdfdd8ff
RGBrgb(189, 253, 216)
RGBArgba(189, 253, 216, 1)
HSLhsl(145, 94%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(145, 25%, 99%)
HWBhwb(145 74% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 15%, 1%)
LABlab(94.3 -27.2 11.3)
LCHlch(94.3 29.5 157.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.941 0.082 159.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.50, 86.02, 77.95)
Decimal12451288
Display P3color(display-p3 0.741 0.992 0.847)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bdfdd8;
background-color: #bdfdd8;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bdfdd8;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bdfdd8] bg-[#bdfdd8]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bdfdd8;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.741, green: 0.992, blue: 0.847)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.741, green: 0.992, blue: 0.847, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BDFDD8</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBDFDD8)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBDFDD8)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(216, 253, 189)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(189, 253, 216)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(189, 253, 216)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 189, 253, 216)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7412f, 0.9922f, 0.8471f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{189,253,216}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfdd8 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfdd8 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#047C36, #D3EEDE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bdfdd8 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: #F2FDF6;
  --brand-100: #E4FBEE;
  --brand-200: #bdfdd8;
  --brand-300: #92FCBF;
  --brand-400: #5CFA9E;
  --brand-500: #25F87E;
  --brand-600: #07EE68;
  --brand-700: #06C657;
  --brand-800: #059E46;
  --brand-900: #087235;
  --brand-950: #054721;
  --brand: #bdfdd8;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF7;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD3;
  --brand-hover: #9BFCC4;
  --brand-pressed: #78FBAF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241B;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEDE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDF6',
        100: '#E4FBEE',
        200: '#bdfdd8',
        300: '#92FCBF',
        400: '#5CFA9E',
        500: '#25F87E',
        600: '#07EE68',
        700: '#06C657',
        800: '#059E46',
        900: '#087235',
        950: '#054721',
        DEFAULT: '#bdfdd8',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDF6,
  '100': #E4FBEE,
  '200': #bdfdd8,
  '300': #92FCBF,
  '400': #5CFA9E,
  '500': #25F87E,
  '600': #07EE68,
  '700': #06C657,
  '800': #059E46,
  '900': #087235,
  '950': #054721,
);
$brand-base: #bdfdd8;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDF6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBEE", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bdfdd8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92FCBF", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CFA9E", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#25F87E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#07EE68", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#06C657", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#059E46", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#087235", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054721", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bdfdd8 · 18.21:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.21:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bdfdd8 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.21:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #047C36 at 4.62:1.

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
#04893C · 4.52:1
AA on white−59% L
#04893C
The quick fox
#03662D · 7.14:1
AAA on white−66% L
#03662D
The quick fox
#bdfdd8 · 18.21:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bdfdd8
The quick fox
#bdfdd8 · 18.21:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bdfdd8

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #05AC4B 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
#bdfdd8 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bdfdd8 on black: 18.21:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bdfdd8 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bdfdd8.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.22:1AaAa
Slate 5004.13:1AaAa
Slate 6006.57:1AaAa
Slate 7008.98:1AaAa
Slate 80012.68:1AaAa
Slate 90015.48:1AaAa
Black18.21:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FCF3D6
deuteranopia · #F1ECDA
tritanopia · #B1FCF2

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. #bdfdd8 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.

#F2FDF6
#E4FBEE
#bdfdd8
#92FCBF
#5CFA9E
#25F87E
#07EE68
#06C657
#059E46
#087235
#054721
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDF6Darkest = 950 · #054721Text 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 0.020 159.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.033 159.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.049 159.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.064 159.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.075 159.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.082 159.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.082 159.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.077 159.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.068 159.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.057 159.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.045 159.0);
}

Colors that work with #bdfdd8

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#C0EDD3
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B6C
Captions on the surface
Accent#C903A8
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#047C36
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEF0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241B
Dark-mode background
Hover#9BFCC4
One step down in lightness
Pressed#78FBAF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D0FFE4
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 #bdfdd8

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 #047C36
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #05AC4B

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
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#FDBDE2
Analogous left#C2FDBD
Analogous right#BDFDF8
Split-complement 1#F8BDFD
Split-complement 2#FDBDC2
Triadic 1#D8BDFD
Triadic 2#FDD8BD
Tetradic#BDC2FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°145°

#bdfdd8 sits at 145°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.1%
Green99.2%
Blue84.7%
R · 0–255
189
0xbd
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
216
0xd8

CMYK percentages

Cyan25.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow14.6%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 41%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bdfdd8 text on a black background

contrast 18.21:1

Card sample

#bdfdd8 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#bdfdd8 on grey

1.05:1

#bdfdd8 on its own surface

1.09:1

#bdfdd8 on its dark surface

14.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bdfdd8;
Background color
Panel with #bdfdd8 background
background-color: #bdfdd8;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bdfdd8;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(189, 253, 216, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(189, 253, 216, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bdfdd8;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bdfdd8, #BDF7FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfdd8, #BDE7FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bdfdd8;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bdfdd8;
caret-color: #bdfdd8;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bdfdd8;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEF0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bdfdd8;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bdfdd8 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bdfdd8 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, 253, 216, 0.5)
rgb(189 253 216 / 50%)
#bdfdd880
hsl(145 94% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bdfdd8 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bdfdd81a#F8FFFB
20%#bdfdd833#F2FFF7
40%#bdfdd866#E5FEEF
60%#bdfdd899#D7FEE8
80%#bdfdd8cc#CAFDE0

Gradients from #bdfdd8

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, #EBFEF3, #bdfdd8 45%, #047C36);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bdfdd8, #9FECFC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfdd8, #FDBDE2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFF6 0%, #bdfdd8 45%, #047C36 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%, #F1FFEF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DBFEFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #047C36 0%, transparent 65%), #bdfdd8;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bdfdd8

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.

#bdfdd8 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 18.21:1.

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.

#bdfdd8, answered

What color is #bdfdd8?

#bdfdd8 is a pale electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 7.6). It sits at 145° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bdfdd8?

rgb(189, 253, 216) — 189 red, 253 green and 216 blue out of 255, or 74.1% / 99.2% / 84.7% by channel.

What is #bdfdd8 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(145, 94%, 87%) and hsv(145, 25%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bdfdd8 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8603 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 18.21:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bdfdd8?

Black. It scores 18.21:1 against #bdfdd8, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bdfdd8 accessible on a white background?

#bdfdd8 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #04893C to reach 4.5:1, or #03662D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bdfdd8?

#FDBDE2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F8BDFD and #FDBDC2, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bdfdd8?

For interface work: #F4FAF7 as the surface, #C0EDD3 for borders, #4B9B6C for secondary text, #C903A8 as an accent and #047C36 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C2FDBD and #BDFDF8 stays calm, while #FDBDE2 is the loudest partner.

What is #bdfdd8 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 15%, 1%). 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 #bdfdd8 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 #BDFDC1; nudged cooler, #BCFEF0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bdfdd8?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 20.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bdfdd8 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bdfdd8 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bdfdd8] or text-[#bdfdd8], 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 #bdfdd8 with 50% opacity?

rgba(189, 253, 216, 0.5), or #bdfdd880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFEEC; over black, #5F7F6C.

Is #bdfdd8 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 4.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bdfdd8 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 #bdfdd8?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFEF3, #bdfdd8 45%, #047C36). For more colour, a short hue run to #9FECFC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bdfdd8 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bdfdd8 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.