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#c7eace

a light, vivid green · cool · closest name: Honey Dew

Token name suggestion: Drift Jade

RGB
199, 234, 206
HSL
132°, 46%, 85%
CMYK
15, 0, 12, 8
Luminance
0.7544

#c7eace is a light vivid green, 132° on the wheel and 68/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.09:1). As text it scores 1.31:1 on white — use #328543 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(132 46% 85%)rgb(199 234 206)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c7eace is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c7eace
Hue
132°
green
Saturation
46%
vivid
Lightness
85%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7544
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
68/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.09:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 9.2
Chroma
19.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.904
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 21.2
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue132° of 360°
Saturation46%
Lightness85%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c7eace.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool68% 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
Red16%
Green78%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#c7eace
HEX (8-digit)#c7eaceff
RGBrgb(199, 234, 206)
RGBArgba(199, 234, 206, 1)
HSLhsl(132, 46%, 85%)
HSV / HSBhsv(132, 15%, 92%)
HWBhwb(132 78% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 0%, 12%, 8%)
LABlab(89.6 -16.7 9.8)
LCHlch(89.6 19.3 149.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.904 0.053 151.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(64.11, 75.44, 69.56)
Decimal13101774
Display P3color(display-p3 0.780 0.918 0.808)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c7eace;
background-color: #c7eace;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c7eace;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c7eace] bg-[#c7eace]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c7eace;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.780, green: 0.918, blue: 0.808)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.780, green: 0.918, blue: 0.808, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C7EACE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC7EACE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC7EACE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(206, 234, 199)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(199, 234, 206)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(199, 234, 206)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 199, 234, 206)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7804f, 0.9176f, 0.8078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{199,234,206}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c7eace 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c7eace 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#235D2E, #D3EED8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c7eace 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: #F5FAF6;
  --brand-100: #EAF5EC;
  --brand-200: #c7eace;
  --brand-300: #ADE0B8;
  --brand-400: #85D194;
  --brand-500: #5CC270;
  --brand-600: #43B259;
  --brand-700: #38944A;
  --brand-800: #2C773B;
  --brand-900: #24572E;
  --brand-950: #16361D;
  --brand: #c7eace;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C4E9CB;
  --brand-hover: #ADE0B7;
  --brand-pressed: #93D7A1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142417;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF6',
        100: '#EAF5EC',
        200: '#c7eace',
        300: '#ADE0B8',
        400: '#85D194',
        500: '#5CC270',
        600: '#43B259',
        700: '#38944A',
        800: '#2C773B',
        900: '#24572E',
        950: '#16361D',
        DEFAULT: '#c7eace',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF6,
  '100': #EAF5EC,
  '200': #c7eace,
  '300': #ADE0B8,
  '400': #85D194,
  '500': #5CC270,
  '600': #43B259,
  '700': #38944A,
  '800': #2C773B,
  '900': #24572E,
  '950': #16361D,
);
$brand-base: #c7eace;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c7eace", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ADE0B8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#85D194", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5CC270", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#43B259", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#38944A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2C773B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#24572E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#16361D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c7eace · 16.09:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.31:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.09:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c7eace as text scores 1.31:1 on white and 16.09:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #235D2E at 6.01:1.

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
#328543 · 4.59:1
AA on white−49% L
#328543
The quick fox
#256432 · 7.12:1
AAA on white−58% L
#256432
The quick fox
#c7eace · 16.09:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c7eace
The quick fox
#c7eace · 16.09:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c7eace

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3EA753 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
#c7eace on white: 1.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c7eace on black: 16.09:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c7eace as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c7eace.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.31:1AaAa
Slate 501.25:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.96:1AaAa
Slate 5003.65:1AaAa
Slate 6005.81:1AaAa
Slate 7007.93:1AaAa
Slate 80011.21:1AaAa
Slate 90013.68:1AaAa
Black16.09:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EAE4CD
deuteranopia · #E4E0CF
tritanopia · #C3E9E2

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. #c7eace 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.

#F5FAF6
#EAF5EC
#c7eace
#ADE0B8
#85D194
#5CC270
#43B259
#38944A
#2C773B
#24572E
#16361D
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF6Darkest = 950 · #16361DText step on white = 800
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 0.013 151.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.021 151.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.032 151.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.041 151.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.048 151.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.053 151.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.053 151.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.050 151.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.044 151.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.037 151.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.029 151.1);
}

Colors that work with #c7eace

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#C4E9CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5B
Captions on the surface
Accent#94329A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#235D2E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142417
Dark-mode background
Hover#ADE0B7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#93D7A1
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D3F2D9
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 #c7eace

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 #235D2E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3EA753

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight15/100
  • 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#EAC7E3
Analogous left#D1EAC7
Analogous right#C7EAE0
Split-complement 1#E0C7EA
Split-complement 2#EAC7D1
Triadic 1#CEC7EA
Triadic 2#EACEC7
Tetradic#C7D1EA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°132°

#c7eace sits at 132°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red78.0%
Green91.8%
Blue80.8%
R · 0–255
199
0xc7
G · 0–255
234
0xea
B · 0–255
206
0xce

CMYK percentages

Cyan15.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow12.0%
Key (black)8.2%

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

Color previews

#c7eace text on a black background

contrast 16.09:1

Card sample

#c7eace text on a white background

contrast 1.31:1

Card sample

#c7eace on grey

1.19:1

#c7eace on its own surface

1.23:1

#c7eace on its dark surface

12.43:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c7eace;
Background color
Panel with #c7eace background
background-color: #c7eace;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c7eace;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(199, 234, 206, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(199, 234, 206, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c7eace;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c7eace, #C7EAE5);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c7eace, #C7E6EA);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c7eace;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c7eace;
caret-color: #c7eace;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c7eace;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c7eace;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c7eace 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c7eace 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(199, 234, 206, 0.5)
rgb(199 234 206 / 50%)
#c7eace80
hsl(132 46% 85% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c7eace 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c7eace1a#F9FDFA
20%#c7eace33#F4FBF5
40%#c7eace66#E9F7EB
60%#c7eace99#DDF2E2
80%#c7eacecc#D2EED8

Gradients from #c7eace

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, #F0F9F2, #c7eace 45%, #235D2E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c7eace, #B1E2DF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c7eace, #EAC7E3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FBF5 0%, #c7eace 45%, #235D2E 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%, #F1F8EC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DDF2EE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #235D2E 0%, transparent 65%), #c7eace;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c7eace

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.

#c7eace 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 16.09:1.

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.

#c7eace, answered

What color is #c7eace?

#c7eace is a light vivid green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 9.2). It sits at 132° on the hue wheel with 46% saturation and 85% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c7eace?

rgb(199, 234, 206) — 199 red, 234 green and 206 blue out of 255, or 78% / 91.8% / 80.8% by channel.

What is #c7eace in HSL and HSV?

hsl(132, 46%, 85%) and hsv(132, 15%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c7eace a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7544 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 16.09:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c7eace?

Black. It scores 16.09:1 against #c7eace, versus 1.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c7eace accessible on a white background?

#c7eace on white scores 1.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #328543 to reach 4.5:1, or #256432 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c7eace?

#EAC7E3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E0C7EA and #EAC7D1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c7eace?

For interface work: #F4FAF6 as the surface, #C4E9CB for borders, #4B9B5B for secondary text, #94329A as an accent and #235D2E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D1EAC7 and #C7EAE0 stays calm, while #EAC7E3 is the loudest partner.

What is #c7eace in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 0%, 12%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #c7eace warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 68 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CDEAC7; nudged cooler, #C6EBDB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c7eace?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 21.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c7eace as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c7eace in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c7eace] or text-[#c7eace], 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 #c7eace with 50% opacity?

rgba(199, 234, 206, 0.5), or #c7eace80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E3F5E7; over black, #647567.

Is #c7eace a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 7.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c7eace 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 #c7eace?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0F9F2, #c7eace 45%, #235D2E). For more colour, a short hue run to #B1E2DF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c7eace in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c7eace at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.