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#daf3ab

a light, electric green · neutral · closest name: Pale Goldenrod

Token name suggestion: Meadow Basil

RGB
218, 243, 171
HSL
81°, 75%, 81%
CMYK
10, 0, 30, 5
Luminance
0.8195

#daf3ab is a light electric green, 81° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.39:1). As text it scores 1.21:1 on white — use #5C8213 instead. Nearest name is Pale Goldenrod, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(81 75% 81%)rgb(218 243 171)Base step 300AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #daf3ab is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#daf3ab
Hue
81°
green
Saturation
75%
electric
Lightness
81%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8195
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.39:1
Closest name
Pale Goldenrod
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
37.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.929
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 17.3
Web-safe
#CCFF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue81° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness81%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #daf3ab.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool42% 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
Red18%
Green78%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#daf3ab
HEX (8-digit)#daf3abff
RGBrgb(218, 243, 171)
RGBArgba(218, 243, 171, 1)
HSLhsl(81, 75%, 81%)
HSV / HSBhsv(81, 30%, 95%)
HWBhwb(81 67% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(10%, 0%, 30%, 5%)
LABlab(92.5 -20.0 32.1)
LCHlch(92.5 37.8 121.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.929 0.097 123.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.31, 81.95, 50.74)
Decimal14349227
Display P3color(display-p3 0.855 0.953 0.671)
Web-safe#CCFF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #daf3ab;
background-color: #daf3ab;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #daf3ab;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#daf3ab] bg-[#daf3ab]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #daf3ab;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.855, green: 0.953, blue: 0.671)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.953, blue: 0.671, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DAF3AB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDAF3AB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDAF3AB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(171, 243, 218)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(218, 243, 171)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(218, 243, 171)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 218, 243, 171)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8549f, 0.9529f, 0.6706f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{218,243,171}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #daf3ab 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #daf3ab 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4E7010, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #daf3ab 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: #F9FCF3;
  --brand-100: #F2F9E7;
  --brand-200: #E5F4C8;
  --brand-300: #daf3ab;
  --brand-400: #BEEA6C;
  --brand-500: #A9E33B;
  --brand-600: #97D61F;
  --brand-700: #7DB319;
  --brand-800: #648F14;
  --brand-900: #4A6713;
  --brand-950: #2E410C;
  --brand: #daf3ab;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DDEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #CCEF8C;
  --brand-pressed: #BFEA6D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FCF3',
        100: '#F2F9E7',
        200: '#E5F4C8',
        300: '#daf3ab',
        400: '#BEEA6C',
        500: '#A9E33B',
        600: '#97D61F',
        700: '#7DB319',
        800: '#648F14',
        900: '#4A6713',
        950: '#2E410C',
        DEFAULT: '#daf3ab',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FCF3,
  '100': #F2F9E7,
  '200': #E5F4C8,
  '300': #daf3ab,
  '400': #BEEA6C,
  '500': #A9E33B,
  '600': #97D61F,
  '700': #7DB319,
  '800': #648F14,
  '900': #4A6713,
  '950': #2E410C,
);
$brand-base: #daf3ab;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F9E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E5F4C8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#daf3ab", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BEEA6C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A9E33B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#97D61F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7DB319", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#648F14", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4A6713", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2E410C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #daf3ab · 17.39:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.21:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.39:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #daf3ab as text scores 1.21:1 on white and 17.39:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4E7010 at 4.77:1.

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
#5C8213 · 4.51:1
AA on white−52% L
#5C8213
The quick fox
#425F0E · 7.30:1
AAA on white−60% L
#425F0E
The quick fox
#daf3ab · 17.39:1
AA on blackalready passes
#daf3ab
The quick fox
#daf3ab · 17.39:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#daf3ab

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #72A217 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
#daf3ab on white: 1.21:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#daf3ab on black: 17.39:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #daf3ab as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #daf3ab.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.21:1AaAa
Slate 501.15:1AaAa
Slate 1001.10:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.23:1AaAa
Slate 4002.12:1AaAa
Slate 5003.94:1AaAa
Slate 6006.27:1AaAa
Slate 7008.57:1AaAa
Slate 80012.11:1AaAa
Slate 90014.78:1AaAa
Black17.39:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBEAA6
deuteranopia · #F8E9AE
tritanopia · #DFECE0

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. #daf3ab is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F9FCF3
#F2F9E7
#E5F4C8
#daf3ab
#BEEA6C
#A9E33B
#97D61F
#7DB319
#648F14
#4A6713
#2E410C
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F9FCF3Darkest = 950 · #2E410CText 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 0.024 123.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.039 123.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.058 123.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.076 123.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.089 123.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.097 123.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.097 123.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.091 123.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.081 123.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.068 123.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.053 123.8);
}

Colors that work with #daf3ab

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DDEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#7F9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#2615B7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4E7010
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FCE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#CCEF8C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BFEA6D
Two steps down
Disabled#F5F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E3F9B9
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 #daf3ab

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 #4E7010
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #72A217

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight19/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityHigh

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#C4ABF3
Analogous left#F3E8AB
Analogous right#B6F3AB
Split-complement 1#ABB6F3
Split-complement 2#E8ABF3
Triadic 1#ABDAF3
Triadic 2#F3ABDA
Tetradic#ABF3E8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°81°

#daf3ab sits at 81°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.5%
Green95.3%
Blue67.1%
R · 0–255
218
0xda
G · 0–255
243
0xf3
B · 0–255
171
0xab

CMYK percentages

Cyan10.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow29.6%
Key (black)4.7%

Total ink coverage is 45%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#daf3ab text on a black background

contrast 17.39:1

Card sample

#daf3ab text on a white background

contrast 1.21:1

Card sample

#daf3ab on grey

1.10:1

#daf3ab on its own surface

1.15:1

#daf3ab on its dark surface

13.17:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #daf3ab;
Background color
Panel with #daf3ab background
background-color: #daf3ab;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #daf3ab;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(218, 243, 171, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(218, 243, 171, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #daf3ab;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #daf3ab, #ABF3AC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daf3ab, #ABF3BE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #daf3ab;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #daf3ab;
caret-color: #daf3ab;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #daf3ab;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FCE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #daf3ab;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#daf3ab 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #daf3ab 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(218, 243, 171, 0.5)
rgb(218 243 171 / 50%)
#daf3ab80
hsl(81 75% 81% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #daf3ab 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#daf3ab1a#FBFEF7
20%#daf3ab33#F8FDEE
40%#daf3ab66#F0FADD
60%#daf3ab99#E9F8CD
80%#daf3abcc#E1F5BC

Gradients from #daf3ab

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, #F2FBE1, #daf3ab 45%, #4E7010);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #daf3ab, #90EF99);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daf3ab, #C4ABF3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9FDF2 0%, #daf3ab 45%, #4E7010 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F9F1D8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C9F7C6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4E7010 0%, transparent 65%), #daf3ab;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #daf3ab

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.

#daf3ab 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

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 17.39:1.

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.

#daf3ab, answered

What color is #daf3ab?

#daf3ab is a light electric green, closest to Pale Goldenrod (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 81° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 81% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #daf3ab?

rgb(218, 243, 171) — 218 red, 243 green and 171 blue out of 255, or 85.5% / 95.3% / 67.1% by channel.

What is #daf3ab in HSL and HSV?

hsl(81, 75%, 81%) and hsv(81, 30%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #daf3ab a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8195 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 17.39:1.

Should I use black or white text on #daf3ab?

Black. It scores 17.39:1 against #daf3ab, versus 1.21:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #daf3ab accessible on a white background?

#daf3ab on white scores 1.21:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5C8213 to reach 4.5:1, or #425F0E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #daf3ab?

#C4ABF3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ABB6F3 and #E8ABF3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #daf3ab?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DDEDC0 for borders, #7F9B4B for secondary text, #2615B7 as an accent and #4E7010 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F3E8AB and #B6F3AB stays calm, while #C4ABF3 is the loudest partner.

What is #daf3ab in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(10%, 0%, 30%, 5%). 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 #daf3ab warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 42 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F3F2AB; nudged cooler, #BFF4AA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #daf3ab?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 17.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #daf3ab as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #daf3ab in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#daf3ab] or text-[#daf3ab], 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 #daf3ab with 50% opacity?

rgba(218, 243, 171, 0.5), or #daf3ab80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDF9D5; over black, #6D7A56.

Is #daf3ab a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFF99, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #daf3ab 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 #daf3ab?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F2FBE1, #daf3ab 45%, #4E7010). For more colour, a short hue run to #90EF99 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #daf3ab in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #daf3ab at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.