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#e6eee3

a pale, soft green · neutral · closest name: Mint Cream

Token name suggestion: Mist Jade

RGB
230, 238, 227
HSL
104°, 24%, 91%
CMYK
3, 0, 5, 7
Luminance
0.8352

#e6eee3 is a pale soft green, 104° on the wheel and 54/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.70:1). As text it scores 1.19:1 on white — use #5B804D instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(104 24% 91%)rgb(230 238 227)Base step 100AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e6eee3 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e6eee3
Hue
104°
green
Saturation
24%
soft
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8352
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
54/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
17.70:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 4.4
Chroma
6.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.940
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 27.2
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue104° of 360°
Saturation24%
Lightness91%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e6eee3.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool54% 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
Red20%
Green73%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#e6eee3
HEX (8-digit)#e6eee3ff
RGBrgb(230, 238, 227)
RGBArgba(230, 238, 227, 1)
HSLhsl(104, 24%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(104, 5%, 93%)
HWBhwb(104 89% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(3%, 0%, 5%, 7%)
LABlab(93.2 -4.6 4.4)
LCHlch(93.2 6.4 136.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.940 0.017 137.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.07, 83.52, 84.72)
Decimal15134435
Display P3color(display-p3 0.902 0.933 0.890)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e6eee3;
background-color: #e6eee3;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e6eee3;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e6eee3] bg-[#e6eee3]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e6eee3;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.902, green: 0.933, blue: 0.890)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.902, green: 0.933, blue: 0.890, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E6EEE3</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE6EEE3)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE6EEE3)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(227, 238, 230)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(230, 238, 227)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(230, 238, 227)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 230, 238, 227)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9020f, 0.9333f, 0.8902f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{230,238,227}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e6eee3 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e6eee3 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#394F30, #DDE8D9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e6eee3 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: #F7F9F6;
  --brand-100: #e6eee3;
  --brand-200: #DBE5D7;
  --brand-300: #C1D5B9;
  --brand-400: #A2BF96;
  --brand-500: #82AA73;
  --brand-600: #6D985D;
  --brand-700: #5B7F4D;
  --brand-800: #49663E;
  --brand-900: #374B2F;
  --brand-950: #222F1E;
  --brand: #e6eee3;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7F9F5;
  --brand-border: #D2E0CC;
  --brand-hover: #D2E1CD;
  --brand-pressed: #BED3B7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #192315;
    --brand-ink: #DDE8D9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F9F6',
        100: '#e6eee3',
        200: '#DBE5D7',
        300: '#C1D5B9',
        400: '#A2BF96',
        500: '#82AA73',
        600: '#6D985D',
        700: '#5B7F4D',
        800: '#49663E',
        900: '#374B2F',
        950: '#222F1E',
        DEFAULT: '#e6eee3',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F9F6,
  '100': #e6eee3,
  '200': #DBE5D7,
  '300': #C1D5B9,
  '400': #A2BF96,
  '500': #82AA73,
  '600': #6D985D,
  '700': #5B7F4D,
  '800': #49663E,
  '900': #374B2F,
  '950': #222F1E,
);
$brand-base: #e6eee3;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#e6eee3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DBE5D7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1D5B9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A2BF96", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#82AA73", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6D985D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5B7F4D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#49663E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#374B2F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#222F1E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e6eee3 · 17.70:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.19:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.70:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #e6eee3 as text scores 1.19:1 on white and 17.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #394F30 at 7.58:1.

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
#5B804D · 4.53:1
AA on white−51% L
#5B804D
The quick fox
#44603A · 7.05:1
AAA on white−61% L
#44603A
The quick fox
#e6eee3 · 17.70:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e6eee3
The quick fox
#e6eee3 · 17.70:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#e6eee3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #729F61 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
#e6eee3 on white: 1.19:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e6eee3 on black: 17.70:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e6eee3 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e6eee3.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.19:1AaAa
Slate 501.13:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4002.16:1AaAa
Slate 5004.01:1AaAa
Slate 6006.39:1AaAa
Slate 7008.73:1AaAa
Slate 80012.33:1AaAa
Slate 90015.05:1AaAa
Black17.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFECE2
deuteranopia · #EEEBE3
tritanopia · #E6EDEB

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. #e6eee3 is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F9F6
#e6eee3
#DBE5D7
#C1D5B9
#A2BF96
#82AA73
#6D985D
#5B7F4D
#49663E
#374B2F
#222F1E
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F7F9F6Darkest = 950 · #222F1EText 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 0.004 137.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 137.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 137.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.013 137.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.016 137.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.017 137.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.017 137.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.016 137.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.014 137.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.012 137.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.009 137.0);
}

Colors that work with #e6eee3

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#F7F9F5
Tinted page background
Border#D2E0CC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#668F57
Captions on the surface
Accent#644983
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#394F30
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1F5EF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#192315
Dark-mode background
Hover#D2E1CD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BED3B7
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E7F2E4
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 #e6eee3

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 #394F30
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #729F61

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
  • Weight9/100
  • 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#EBE3EE
Analogous left#ECEEE3
Analogous right#E3EEE6
Split-complement 1#E6E3EE
Split-complement 2#EEE3EC
Triadic 1#E3E6EE
Triadic 2#EEE3E6
Tetradic#E3ECEE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°104°

#e6eee3 sits at 104°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red90.2%
Green93.3%
Blue89.0%
R · 0–255
230
0xe6
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
227
0xe3

CMYK percentages

Cyan3.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow4.6%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 15%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e6eee3 text on a black background

contrast 17.70:1

Card sample

#e6eee3 text on a white background

contrast 1.19:1

Card sample

#e6eee3 on grey

1.08:1

#e6eee3 on its own surface

1.12:1

#e6eee3 on its dark surface

13.70:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e6eee3;
Background color
Panel with #e6eee3 background
background-color: #e6eee3;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e6eee3;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(230, 238, 227, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(230, 238, 227, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e6eee3;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e6eee3, #E3EEE7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e6eee3, #E3EEEA);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e6eee3;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e6eee3;
caret-color: #e6eee3;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e6eee3;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1F5EF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e6eee3;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e6eee3 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e6eee3 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(230, 238, 227, 0.5)
rgb(230 238 227 / 50%)
#e6eee380
hsl(104 24% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e6eee3 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e6eee31a#FDFDFC
20%#e6eee333#FAFCF9
40%#e6eee366#F5F8F4
60%#e6eee399#F0F5EE
80%#e6eee3cc#EBF1E9

Gradients from #e6eee3

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, #F4F7F2, #e6eee3 45%, #394F30);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e6eee3, #D0E2D9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e6eee3, #EBE3EE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7F9F5 0%, #e6eee3 45%, #394F30 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F9F5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F6FAF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #394F30 0%, transparent 65%), #e6eee3;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e6eee3

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.

#e6eee3 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 17.70:1.

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.

#e6eee3, answered

What color is #e6eee3?

#e6eee3 is a pale soft green, closest to Mint Cream (ΔE2000 4.4). It sits at 104° on the hue wheel with 24% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #e6eee3?

rgb(230, 238, 227) — 230 red, 238 green and 227 blue out of 255, or 90.2% / 93.3% / 89% by channel.

What is #e6eee3 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(104, 24%, 91%) and hsv(104, 5%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e6eee3 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8352 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 17.70:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e6eee3?

Black. It scores 17.70:1 against #e6eee3, versus 1.19:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #e6eee3 accessible on a white background?

#e6eee3 on white scores 1.19:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5B804D to reach 4.5:1, or #44603A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e6eee3?

#EBE3EE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E6E3EE and #EEE3EC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e6eee3?

For interface work: #F7F9F5 as the surface, #D2E0CC for borders, #668F57 for secondary text, #644983 as an accent and #394F30 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #ECEEE3 and #E3EEE6 stays calm, while #EBE3EE is the loudest partner.

What is #e6eee3 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(3%, 0%, 5%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #e6eee3 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 54 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EAEEE3; nudged cooler, #E3EEE4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e6eee3?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 27.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e6eee3 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e6eee3 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e6eee3] or text-[#e6eee3], 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 #e6eee3 with 50% opacity?

rgba(230, 238, 227, 0.5), or #e6eee380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F3F7F1; over black, #737772.

Is #e6eee3 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 12.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e6eee3 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 #e6eee3?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4F7F2, #e6eee3 45%, #394F30). For more colour, a short hue run to #D0E2D9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e6eee3 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e6eee3 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.