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#e8f4eb

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Fern

RGB
232, 244, 235
HSL
135°, 35%, 93%
CMYK
5, 0, 4, 4
Luminance
0.8786

#e8f4eb is a pale soft green, 135° on the wheel and 69/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.57:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #3F8450 instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(135 35% 93%)rgb(232 244 235)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e8f4eb is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e8f4eb
Hue
135°
green
Saturation
35%
soft
Lightness
93%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8786
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
69/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
18.57:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 3.2
Chroma
6.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.956
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 27.1
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue135° of 360°
Saturation35%
Lightness93%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e8f4eb.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool69% 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
Red20%
Green74%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#e8f4eb
HEX (8-digit)#e8f4ebff
RGBrgb(232, 244, 235)
RGBArgba(232, 244, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(135, 35%, 93%)
HSV / HSBhsv(135, 5%, 96%)
HWBhwb(135 91% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(5%, 0%, 4%, 4%)
LABlab(95.1 -5.6 3.0)
LCHlch(95.1 6.3 152.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.956 0.017 153.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(80.62, 87.85, 91.29)
Decimal15267051
Display P3color(display-p3 0.910 0.957 0.922)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e8f4eb;
background-color: #e8f4eb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e8f4eb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e8f4eb] bg-[#e8f4eb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e8f4eb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.910, green: 0.957, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.910, green: 0.957, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E8F4EB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE8F4EB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE8F4EB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 244, 232)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(232, 244, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(232, 244, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 232, 244, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9098f, 0.9569f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{232,244,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e8f4eb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e8f4eb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#295634, #D6EBDB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e8f4eb 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: #F5F9F6;
  --brand-100: #e8f4eb;
  --brand-200: #D4E8D9;
  --brand-300: #B3DBBD;
  --brand-400: #8DC99C;
  --brand-500: #67B67B;
  --brand-600: #4FA665;
  --brand-700: #428A54;
  --brand-800: #356E43;
  --brand-900: #295133;
  --brand-950: #1A3320;
  --brand: #e8f4eb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF6;
  --brand-border: #C8E5CF;
  --brand-hover: #D0E8D6;
  --brand-pressed: #B8DDC1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142418;
    --brand-ink: #D6EBDB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F9F6',
        100: '#e8f4eb',
        200: '#D4E8D9',
        300: '#B3DBBD',
        400: '#8DC99C',
        500: '#67B67B',
        600: '#4FA665',
        700: '#428A54',
        800: '#356E43',
        900: '#295133',
        950: '#1A3320',
        DEFAULT: '#e8f4eb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F9F6,
  '100': #e8f4eb,
  '200': #D4E8D9,
  '300': #B3DBBD,
  '400': #8DC99C,
  '500': #67B67B,
  '600': #4FA665,
  '700': #428A54,
  '800': #356E43,
  '900': #295133,
  '950': #1A3320,
);
$brand-base: #e8f4eb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F9F6", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#e8f4eb", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D4E8D9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B3DBBD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8DC99C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#67B67B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4FA665", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#428A54", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#356E43", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#295133", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1A3320", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e8f4eb · 18.57:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.13:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.57:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #e8f4eb as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.57:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #295634 at 7.50:1.

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
#3F8450 · 4.54:1
AA on white−55% L
#3F8450
The quick fox
#2F623B · 7.16:1
AAA on white−65% L
#2F623B
The quick fox
#e8f4eb · 18.57:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e8f4eb
The quick fox
#e8f4eb · 18.57:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#e8f4eb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4EA363 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
#e8f4eb on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e8f4eb on black: 18.57:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e8f4eb as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e8f4eb.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4002.27:1AaAa
Slate 5004.21:1AaAa
Slate 6006.70:1AaAa
Slate 7009.16:1AaAa
Slate 80012.94:1AaAa
Slate 90015.79:1AaAa
Black18.57:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F4F2EB
deuteranopia · #F2F0EB
tritanopia · #E7F4F1

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. #e8f4eb 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.

#F5F9F6
#e8f4eb
#D4E8D9
#B3DBBD
#8DC99C
#67B67B
#4FA665
#428A54
#356E43
#295133
#1A3320
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F5F9F6Darkest = 950 · #1A3320Text 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 0.004 153.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 153.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 153.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.014 153.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.016 153.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.017 153.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.017 153.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.016 153.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.015 153.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.012 153.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.010 153.6);
}

Colors that work with #e8f4eb

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#F5FAF6
Tinted page background
Border#C8E5CF
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5F
Captions on the surface
Accent#903C90
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#295634
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF7F0
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142418
Dark-mode background
Hover#D0E8D6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B8DDC1
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E1F4E6
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 #e8f4eb

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 #295634
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4EA363

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
  • Weight7/100
  • 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#F4E8F1
Analogous left#EBF4E8
Analogous right#E8F4F1
Split-complement 1#F1E8F4
Split-complement 2#F4E8EB
Triadic 1#EBE8F4
Triadic 2#F4EBE8
Tetradic#E8EBF4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°135°

#e8f4eb sits at 135°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red91.0%
Green95.7%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
232
0xe8
G · 0–255
244
0xf4
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow3.7%
Key (black)4.3%

Total ink coverage is 13%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e8f4eb text on a black background

contrast 18.57:1

Card sample

#e8f4eb text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#e8f4eb on grey

1.03:1

#e8f4eb on its own surface

1.07:1

#e8f4eb on its dark surface

14.34:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e8f4eb;
Background color
Panel with #e8f4eb background
background-color: #e8f4eb;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e8f4eb;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(232, 244, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(232, 244, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e8f4eb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e8f4eb, #E8F4F3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e8f4eb, #E8F2F4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e8f4eb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e8f4eb;
caret-color: #e8f4eb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e8f4eb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF7F0;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e8f4eb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e8f4eb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e8f4eb 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(232, 244, 235, 0.5)
rgb(232 244 235 / 50%)
#e8f4eb80
hsl(135 35% 93% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e8f4eb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e8f4eb1a#FDFEFD
20%#e8f4eb33#FAFDFB
40%#e8f4eb66#F6FBF7
60%#e8f4eb99#F1F8F3
80%#e8f4ebcc#EDF6EF

Gradients from #e8f4eb

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, #F1F8F3, #e8f4eb 45%, #295634);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e8f4eb, #D3EAEA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e8f4eb, #F4E8F1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F5FAF6 0%, #e8f4eb 45%, #295634 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF6, #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%, #FDFEFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #295634 0%, transparent 65%), #e8f4eb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e8f4eb

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.

#e8f4eb 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

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 18.57:1.

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.

#e8f4eb, answered

What color is #e8f4eb?

#e8f4eb is a pale soft green, closest to Mint Cream (ΔE2000 3.2). It sits at 135° on the hue wheel with 35% saturation and 93% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #e8f4eb?

rgb(232, 244, 235) — 232 red, 244 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 91% / 95.7% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #e8f4eb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(135, 35%, 93%) and hsv(135, 5%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e8f4eb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8786 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.57:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e8f4eb?

Black. It scores 18.57:1 against #e8f4eb, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #e8f4eb accessible on a white background?

#e8f4eb on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3F8450 to reach 4.5:1, or #2F623B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e8f4eb?

#F4E8F1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F1E8F4 and #F4E8EB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e8f4eb?

For interface work: #F5FAF6 as the surface, #C8E5CF for borders, #4B9B5F for secondary text, #903C90 as an accent and #295634 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EBF4E8 and #E8F4F1 stays calm, while #F4E8F1 is the loudest partner.

What is #e8f4eb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(5%, 0%, 4%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #e8f4eb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 69 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E9F4E8; nudged cooler, #E8F4EF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e8f4eb?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 27.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e8f4eb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e8f4eb in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e8f4eb] or text-[#e8f4eb], 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 #e8f4eb with 50% opacity?

rgba(232, 244, 235, 0.5), or #e8f4eb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F4FAF5; over black, #747A76.

Is #e8f4eb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 7.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e8f4eb 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 #e8f4eb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F1F8F3, #e8f4eb 45%, #295634). For more colour, a short hue run to #D3EAEA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e8f4eb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e8f4eb at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.