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#c6feb4

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Jade

RGB
198, 254, 180
HSL
105°, 97%, 85%
CMYK
22, 0, 29, 0
Luminance
0.8618

#c6feb4 is a pale electric green, 105° on the wheel and 56/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.24:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #238802 instead. Nearest name is Pale Green, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(105 97% 85%)rgb(198 254 180)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c6feb4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c6feb4
Hue
105°
green
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
85%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8618
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
56/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.24:1
Closest name
Pale Green
ΔE2000 6.5
Chroma
43.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.941
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 18
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue105° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness85%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c6feb4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool56% 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
Red14%
Green82%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#c6feb4
HEX (8-digit)#c6feb4ff
RGBrgb(198, 254, 180)
RGBArgba(198, 254, 180, 1)
HSLhsl(105, 97%, 85%)
HSV / HSBhsv(105, 29%, 100%)
HWBhwb(105 71% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(22%, 0%, 29%, 0%)
LABlab(94.4 -30.9 29.8)
LCHlch(94.4 43.0 136.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.941 0.113 138.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(66.97, 86.18, 56.28)
Decimal13041332
Display P3color(display-p3 0.776 0.996 0.706)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c6feb4;
background-color: #c6feb4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c6feb4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c6feb4] bg-[#c6feb4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c6feb4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.776, green: 0.996, blue: 0.706)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.776, green: 0.996, blue: 0.706, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C6FEB4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC6FEB4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC6FEB4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(180, 254, 198)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(198, 254, 180)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(198, 254, 180)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 198, 254, 180)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7765f, 0.9961f, 0.7059f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{198,254,180}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c6feb4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c6feb4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#207E02, #D9EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c6feb4 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: #F4FDF1;
  --brand-100: #E9FCE4;
  --brand-200: #c6feb4;
  --brand-300: #ABFE90;
  --brand-400: #81FD59;
  --brand-500: #57FC22;
  --brand-600: #3DF203;
  --brand-700: #33C903;
  --brand-800: #29A102;
  --brand-900: #217406;
  --brand-950: #154904;
  --brand: #c6feb4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CBEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #ABFE91;
  --brand-pressed: #90FD6E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #182414;
    --brand-ink: #D9EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FDF1',
        100: '#E9FCE4',
        200: '#c6feb4',
        300: '#ABFE90',
        400: '#81FD59',
        500: '#57FC22',
        600: '#3DF203',
        700: '#33C903',
        800: '#29A102',
        900: '#217406',
        950: '#154904',
        DEFAULT: '#c6feb4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FDF1,
  '100': #E9FCE4,
  '200': #c6feb4,
  '300': #ABFE90,
  '400': #81FD59,
  '500': #57FC22,
  '600': #3DF203,
  '700': #33C903,
  '800': #29A102,
  '900': #217406,
  '950': #154904,
);
$brand-base: #c6feb4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9FCE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c6feb4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ABFE90", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#81FD59", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#57FC22", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3DF203", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#33C903", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#29A102", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#217406", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#154904", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c6feb4 · 18.24:1
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 · 18.24:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c6feb4 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.24:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #207E02 at 4.51:1.

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
#238802 · 4.57:1
AA on white−58% L
#238802
The quick fox
#1A6501 · 7.23:1
AAA on white−65% L
#1A6501
The quick fox
#c6feb4 · 18.24:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c6feb4
The quick fox
#c6feb4 · 18.24:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c6feb4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2BAC02 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
#c6feb4 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c6feb4 on black: 18.24:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c6feb4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c6feb4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.13:1AaAa
Slate 6006.58:1AaAa
Slate 7008.99:1AaAa
Slate 80012.70:1AaAa
Slate 90015.50:1AaAa
Black18.24:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF2AF
deuteranopia · #FAEDB8
tritanopia · #C4F9EA

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. #c6feb4 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.

#F4FDF1
#E9FCE4
#c6feb4
#ABFE90
#81FD59
#57FC22
#3DF203
#33C903
#29A102
#217406
#154904
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FDF1Darkest = 950 · #154904Text 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 0.028 138.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.045 138.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.068 138.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.088 138.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.104 138.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.113 138.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.113 138.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.106 138.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.095 138.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.079 138.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.062 138.2);
}

Colors that work with #c6feb4

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#CBEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5E9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#6900CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#207E02
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECFFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#182414
Dark-mode background
Hover#ABFE91
One step down in lightness
Pressed#90FD6E
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D5FFC7
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #c6feb4

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 #207E02
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2BAC02

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
  • Weight15/100
  • 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#ECB4FE
Analogous left#EBFEB4
Analogous right#B4FEC7
Split-complement 1#C7B4FE
Split-complement 2#FEB4EB
Triadic 1#B4C6FE
Triadic 2#FEB4C6
Tetradic#B4EBFE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°105°

#c6feb4 sits at 105°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red77.6%
Green99.6%
Blue70.6%
R · 0–255
198
0xc6
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
180
0xb4

CMYK percentages

Cyan22.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.1%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 52%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c6feb4 text on a black background

contrast 18.24:1

Card sample

#c6feb4 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#c6feb4 on grey

1.05:1

#c6feb4 on its own surface

1.09:1

#c6feb4 on its dark surface

14.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c6feb4;
Background color
Panel with #c6feb4 background
background-color: #c6feb4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c6feb4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(198, 254, 180, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(198, 254, 180, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c6feb4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c6feb4, #B4FED3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c6feb4, #B4FEE6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c6feb4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c6feb4;
caret-color: #c6feb4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c6feb4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECFFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c6feb4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c6feb4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c6feb4 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(198, 254, 180, 0.5)
rgb(198 254 180 / 50%)
#c6feb480
hsl(105 97% 85% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c6feb4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c6feb41a#F9FFF8
20%#c6feb433#F4FFF0
40%#c6feb466#E8FFE1
60%#c6feb499#DDFED2
80%#c6feb4cc#D1FEC3

Gradients from #c6feb4

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, #F0FFEB, #c6feb4 45%, #207E02);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c6feb4, #96FECA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c6feb4, #ECB4FE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FFF0 0%, #c6feb4 45%, #207E02 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%, #FAFFE6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D2FEE1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #207E02 0%, transparent 65%), #c6feb4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c6feb4

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.

#c6feb4 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 18.24:1.

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.

#c6feb4, answered

What color is #c6feb4?

#c6feb4 is a pale electric green, closest to Pale Green (ΔE2000 6.5). It sits at 105° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 85% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #c6feb4?

rgb(198, 254, 180) — 198 red, 254 green and 180 blue out of 255, or 77.6% / 99.6% / 70.6% by channel.

What is #c6feb4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(105, 97%, 85%) and hsv(105, 29%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c6feb4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8618 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 18.24:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c6feb4?

Black. It scores 18.24:1 against #c6feb4, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c6feb4 accessible on a white background?

#c6feb4 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #238802 to reach 4.5:1, or #1A6501 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c6feb4?

#ECB4FE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C7B4FE and #FEB4EB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c6feb4?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CBEDC0 for borders, #5E9B4B for secondary text, #6900CC as an accent and #207E02 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EBFEB4 and #B4FEC7 stays calm, while #ECB4FE is the loudest partner.

What is #c6feb4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(22%, 0%, 29%, 0%). 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 #c6feb4 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 56 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E1FEB4; nudged cooler, #B3FFBD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c6feb4?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 18 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c6feb4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c6feb4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c6feb4] or text-[#c6feb4], 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 #c6feb4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(198, 254, 180, 0.5), or #c6feb480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E3FFDA; over black, #637F5A.

Is #c6feb4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c6feb4 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 #c6feb4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0FFEB, #c6feb4 45%, #207E02). For more colour, a short hue run to #96FECA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c6feb4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c6feb4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.