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#dffbc7

a pale, electric green · neutral · closest name: Light Goldenrod Yellow

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
223, 251, 199
HSL
92°, 87%, 88%
CMYK
11, 0, 21, 2
Luminance
0.8881

#dffbc7 is a pale electric green, 92° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.76:1). As text it scores 1.12:1 on white — use #43860A instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(92 87% 88%)rgb(223 251 199)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dffbc7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dffbc7
Hue
92°
green
Saturation
87%
electric
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
93%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8881
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.76:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 8.2
Chroma
28.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.955
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 21.1
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue92° of 360°
Saturation87%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dffbc7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#dffbc7
HEX (8-digit)#dffbc7ff
RGBrgb(223, 251, 199)
RGBArgba(223, 251, 199, 1)
HSLhsl(92, 87%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(92, 21%, 98%)
HWBhwb(92 78% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 0%, 21%, 2%)
LABlab(95.5 -18.1 22.0)
LCHlch(95.5 28.4 129.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.955 0.074 130.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(75.24, 88.81, 67.20)
Decimal14678983
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.984 0.780)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dffbc7;
background-color: #dffbc7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dffbc7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dffbc7] bg-[#dffbc7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dffbc7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.984, blue: 0.780)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.984, blue: 0.780, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DFFBC7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDFFBC7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDFFBC7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(199, 251, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 251, 199)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 251, 199)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 251, 199)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.9843f, 0.7804f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,251,199}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dffbc7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dffbc7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3C7708, #DFEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dffbc7 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: #F7FDF2;
  --brand-100: #EFFAE5;
  --brand-200: #dffbc7;
  --brand-300: #C3F896;
  --brand-400: #A5F462;
  --brand-500: #87F02E;
  --brand-600: #72E510;
  --brand-700: #5FBE0E;
  --brand-800: #4C980B;
  --brand-900: #396E0C;
  --brand-950: #244508;
  --brand: #dffbc7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D4EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #CCF9A5;
  --brand-pressed: #B9F684;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DFEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FDF2',
        100: '#EFFAE5',
        200: '#dffbc7',
        300: '#C3F896',
        400: '#A5F462',
        500: '#87F02E',
        600: '#72E510',
        700: '#5FBE0E',
        800: '#4C980B',
        900: '#396E0C',
        950: '#244508',
        DEFAULT: '#dffbc7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FDF2,
  '100': #EFFAE5,
  '200': #dffbc7,
  '300': #C3F896,
  '400': #A5F462,
  '500': #87F02E,
  '600': #72E510,
  '700': #5FBE0E,
  '800': #4C980B,
  '900': #396E0C,
  '950': #244508,
);
$brand-base: #dffbc7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFFAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#dffbc7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C3F896", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A5F462", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#87F02E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#72E510", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5FBE0E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4C980B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#396E0C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#244508", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dffbc7 · 18.76:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.12:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.76:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dffbc7 as text scores 1.12:1 on white and 18.76:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3C7708 at 4.89:1.

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
#43860A · 4.51:1
AA on white−60% L
#43860A
The quick fox
#326507 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−67% L
#326507
The quick fox
#dffbc7 · 18.76:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dffbc7
The quick fox
#dffbc7 · 18.76:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dffbc7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #54A80C 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
#dffbc7 on white: 1.12:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dffbc7 on black: 18.76:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dffbc7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dffbc7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.12:1AaAa
Slate 501.07:1AaAa
Slate 1001.02:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.33:1AaAa
Slate 4002.29:1AaAa
Slate 5004.25:1AaAa
Slate 6006.77:1AaAa
Slate 7009.25:1AaAa
Slate 80013.07:1AaAa
Slate 90015.95:1AaAa
Black18.76:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF3C4
deuteranopia · #FCF1C9
tritanopia · #E1F6ED

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. #dffbc7 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.

#F7FDF2
#EFFAE5
#dffbc7
#C3F896
#A5F462
#87F02E
#72E510
#5FBE0E
#4C980B
#396E0C
#244508
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7FDF2Darkest = 950 · #244508Text 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 0.019 130.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.030 130.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.045 130.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.058 130.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.068 130.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.074 130.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.074 130.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.070 130.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.062 130.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.052 130.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.041 130.8);
}

Colors that work with #dffbc7

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D4EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#709B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3D0AC2
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3C7708
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1FDE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#CCF9A5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B9F684
Two steps down
Disabled#F5F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E9FED7
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 #dffbc7

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 #3C7708
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #54A80C

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#E3C7FB
Analogous left#F9FBC7
Analogous right#C7FBC9
Split-complement 1#C9C7FB
Split-complement 2#FBC7F9
Triadic 1#C7DFFB
Triadic 2#FBC7DF
Tetradic#C7F9FB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°92°

#dffbc7 sits at 92°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green98.4%
Blue78.0%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
199
0xc7

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow20.7%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 34%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dffbc7 text on a black background

contrast 18.76:1

Card sample

#dffbc7 text on a white background

contrast 1.12:1

Card sample

#dffbc7 on grey

1.02:1

#dffbc7 on its own surface

1.06:1

#dffbc7 on its dark surface

14.33:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dffbc7;
Background color
Panel with #dffbc7 background
background-color: #dffbc7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dffbc7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 251, 199, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 251, 199, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dffbc7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dffbc7, #C7FBD2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dffbc7, #C7FBDF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dffbc7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dffbc7;
caret-color: #dffbc7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dffbc7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1FDE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dffbc7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dffbc7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dffbc7 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(223, 251, 199, 0.5)
rgb(223 251 199 / 50%)
#dffbc780
hsl(92 87% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dffbc7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dffbc71a#FCFFF9
20%#dffbc733#F9FEF4
40%#dffbc766#F2FDE9
60%#dffbc799#ECFDDD
80%#dffbc7cc#E5FCD2

Gradients from #dffbc7

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, #F4FEEC, #dffbc7 45%, #3C7708);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dffbc7, #AAF9C1);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dffbc7, #E3C7FB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7FEF1 0%, #dffbc7 45%, #3C7708 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FEFEF6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E3FDE7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3C7708 0%, transparent 65%), #dffbc7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dffbc7

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.

#dffbc7 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 18.76:1.

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.

#dffbc7, answered

What color is #dffbc7?

#dffbc7 is a pale electric green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 8.2). It sits at 92° on the hue wheel with 87% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #dffbc7?

rgb(223, 251, 199) — 223 red, 251 green and 199 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 98.4% / 78% by channel.

What is #dffbc7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(92, 87%, 88%) and hsv(92, 21%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dffbc7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8881 and perceived brightness is 93%, so black text on it reaches 18.76:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dffbc7?

Black. It scores 18.76:1 against #dffbc7, versus 1.12:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dffbc7 accessible on a white background?

#dffbc7 on white scores 1.12:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #43860A to reach 4.5:1, or #326507 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dffbc7?

#E3C7FB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C9C7FB and #FBC7F9, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dffbc7?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D4EDC0 for borders, #709B4B for secondary text, #3D0AC2 as an accent and #3C7708 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F9FBC7 and #C7FBC9 stays calm, while #E3C7FB is the loudest partner.

What is #dffbc7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 0%, 21%, 2%). 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 #dffbc7 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F2FBC7; nudged cooler, #CBFCC6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dffbc7?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 21.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dffbc7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dffbc7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dffbc7] or text-[#dffbc7], 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 #dffbc7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(223, 251, 199, 0.5), or #dffbc780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EFFDE3; over black, #707E64.

Is #dffbc7 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 #dffbc7 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 #dffbc7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4FEEC, #dffbc7 45%, #3C7708). For more colour, a short hue run to #AAF9C1 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dffbc7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dffbc7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.