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#d2e3cf

a pale, soft green · neutral · closest name: Honey Dew

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
210, 227, 207
HSL
111°, 26%, 85%
CMYK
8, 0, 9, 11
Luminance
0.7314

#d2e3cf is a pale soft green, 111° on the wheel and 57/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.63:1). As text it scores 1.34:1 on white — use #53814B instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(111 26% 85%)rgb(210 227 207)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d2e3cf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d2e3cf
Hue
111°
green
Saturation
26%
soft
Lightness
85%
pale
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
86%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7314
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
57/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
15.63:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 6.5
Chroma
12.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.898
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 23.3
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue111° of 360°
Saturation26%
Lightness85%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d2e3cf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool57% 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
Red19%
Green75%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#d2e3cf
HEX (8-digit)#d2e3cfff
RGBrgb(210, 227, 207)
RGBArgba(210, 227, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(111, 26%, 85%)
HSV / HSBhsv(111, 9%, 89%)
HWBhwb(111 81% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(8%, 0%, 9%, 11%)
LABlab(88.5 -9.3 7.8)
LCHlch(88.5 12.2 139.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.898 0.033 141.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(65.31, 73.14, 69.70)
Decimal13820879
Display P3color(display-p3 0.824 0.890 0.812)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d2e3cf;
background-color: #d2e3cf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d2e3cf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d2e3cf] bg-[#d2e3cf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d2e3cf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.824, green: 0.890, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.824, green: 0.890, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D2E3CF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD2E3CF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD2E3CF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 227, 210)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(210, 227, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(210, 227, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 210, 227, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8235f, 0.8902f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{210,227,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d2e3cf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d2e3cf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#34512F, #DBE8D8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d2e3cf 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: #F6F9F6;
  --brand-100: #EEF3ED;
  --brand-200: #d2e3cf;
  --brand-300: #BDD6B8;
  --brand-400: #9BC195;
  --brand-500: #7AAC71;
  --brand-600: #649B5A;
  --brand-700: #53814B;
  --brand-800: #43673C;
  --brand-900: #334C2E;
  --brand-950: #20301D;
  --brand: #d2e3cf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F9F5;
  --brand-border: #CFE1CB;
  --brand-hover: #BDD6B8;
  --brand-pressed: #A8C9A2;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #172315;
    --brand-ink: #DBE8D8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F9F6',
        100: '#EEF3ED',
        200: '#d2e3cf',
        300: '#BDD6B8',
        400: '#9BC195',
        500: '#7AAC71',
        600: '#649B5A',
        700: '#53814B',
        800: '#43673C',
        900: '#334C2E',
        950: '#20301D',
        DEFAULT: '#d2e3cf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F9F6,
  '100': #EEF3ED,
  '200': #d2e3cf,
  '300': #BDD6B8,
  '400': #9BC195,
  '500': #7AAC71,
  '600': #649B5A,
  '700': #53814B,
  '800': #43673C,
  '900': #334C2E,
  '950': #20301D,
);
$brand-base: #d2e3cf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEF3ED", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#d2e3cf", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BDD6B8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9BC195", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7AAC71", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#649B5A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#53814B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#43673C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#334C2E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#20301D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d2e3cf · 15.63:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.34:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.63:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d2e3cf as text scores 1.34:1 on white and 15.63:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #34512F at 6.61:1.

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
#53814B · 4.56:1
AA on white−45% L
#53814B
The quick fox
#3F6139 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−55% L
#3F6139
The quick fox
#d2e3cf · 15.63:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d2e3cf
The quick fox
#d2e3cf · 15.63:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d2e3cf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #68A15E 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
#d2e3cf on white: 1.34:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d2e3cf on black: 15.63:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d2e3cf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d2e3cf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.34:1AaAa
Slate 501.28:1AaAa
Slate 1001.23:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.10:1AaAa
Slate 4001.91:1AaAa
Slate 5003.54:1AaAa
Slate 6005.64:1AaAa
Slate 7007.71:1AaAa
Slate 80010.89:1AaAa
Slate 90013.29:1AaAa
Black15.63:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E4DFCE
deuteranopia · #E1DDD0
tritanopia · #D1E1DD

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. #d2e3cf 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.

#F6F9F6
#EEF3ED
#d2e3cf
#BDD6B8
#9BC195
#7AAC71
#649B5A
#53814B
#43673C
#334C2E
#20301D
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F6F9F6Darkest = 950 · #20301DText step on white = 700
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 0.008 141.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.013 141.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.019 141.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.025 141.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.030 141.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.033 141.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.033 141.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.031 141.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.027 141.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.023 141.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.018 141.0);
}

Colors that work with #d2e3cf

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#F6F9F5
Tinted page background
Border#CFE1CB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5E9155
Captions on the surface
Accent#6B4686
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#34512F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0F6EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#172315
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDD6B8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A8C9A2
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCEDD9
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 #d2e3cf

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #34512F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #68A15E

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • 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#E0CFE3
Analogous left#DCE3CF
Analogous right#CFE3D6
Split-complement 1#D6CFE3
Split-complement 2#E3CFDC
Triadic 1#CFD2E3
Triadic 2#E3CFD2
Tetradic#CFDCE3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°111°

#d2e3cf sits at 111°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red82.4%
Green89.0%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
210
0xd2
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan7.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow8.8%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 27%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d2e3cf text on a black background

contrast 15.63:1

Card sample

#d2e3cf text on a white background

contrast 1.34:1

Card sample

#d2e3cf on grey

1.23:1

#d2e3cf on its own surface

1.27:1

#d2e3cf on its dark surface

12.14:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d2e3cf;
Background color
Panel with #d2e3cf background
background-color: #d2e3cf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d2e3cf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(210, 227, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(210, 227, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d2e3cf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d2e3cf, #CFE3D9);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d2e3cf, #CFE3DE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d2e3cf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d2e3cf;
caret-color: #d2e3cf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d2e3cf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0F6EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d2e3cf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d2e3cf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d2e3cf 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(210, 227, 207, 0.5)
rgb(210 227 207 / 50%)
#d2e3cf80
hsl(111 26% 85% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d2e3cf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d2e3cf1a#FBFCFA
20%#d2e3cf33#F6F9F5
40%#d2e3cf66#EDF4EC
60%#d2e3cf99#E4EEE2
80%#d2e3cfcc#DBE9D9

Gradients from #d2e3cf

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, #F3F7F2, #d2e3cf 45%, #34512F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d2e3cf, #BCD8CD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d2e3cf, #E0CFE3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F6F9F5 0%, #d2e3cf 45%, #34512F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F9F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F4F6EF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E2EEE8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #34512F 0%, transparent 65%), #d2e3cf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d2e3cf

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.

#d2e3cf 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 15.63:1.

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.

#d2e3cf, answered

What color is #d2e3cf?

#d2e3cf is a pale soft green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 6.5). It sits at 111° on the hue wheel with 26% saturation and 85% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #d2e3cf?

rgb(210, 227, 207) — 210 red, 227 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 82.4% / 89% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #d2e3cf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(111, 26%, 85%) and hsv(111, 9%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d2e3cf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7314 and perceived brightness is 86%, so black text on it reaches 15.63:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d2e3cf?

Black. It scores 15.63:1 against #d2e3cf, versus 1.34:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d2e3cf accessible on a white background?

#d2e3cf on white scores 1.34:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #53814B to reach 4.5:1, or #3F6139 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d2e3cf?

#E0CFE3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D6CFE3 and #E3CFDC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d2e3cf?

For interface work: #F6F9F5 as the surface, #CFE1CB for borders, #5E9155 for secondary text, #6B4686 as an accent and #34512F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DCE3CF and #CFE3D6 stays calm, while #E0CFE3 is the loudest partner.

What is #d2e3cf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(8%, 0%, 9%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d2e3cf warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 57 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D9E3CF; nudged cooler, #CEE4D3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d2e3cf?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 23.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d2e3cf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d2e3cf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d2e3cf] or text-[#d2e3cf], 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 #d2e3cf with 50% opacity?

rgba(210, 227, 207, 0.5), or #d2e3cf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E9F1E7; over black, #697268.

Is #d2e3cf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 12.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d2e3cf 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #d2e3cf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F3F7F2, #d2e3cf 45%, #34512F). For more colour, a short hue run to #BCD8CD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d2e3cf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d2e3cf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.