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#fbffc2

a pale, electric yellow · warm · closest name: Lemon Chiffon

Token name suggestion: Chalk Brass

RGB
251, 255, 194
HSL
64°, 100%, 88%
CMYK
2, 0, 24, 0
Luminance
0.9592

#fbffc2 is a pale electric yellow, 64° on the wheel and 28/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.18:1). As text it scores 1.04:1 on white — use #727A00 instead. Nearest name is Lemon Chiffon, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(64 100% 88%)rgb(251 255 194)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #fbffc2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#fbffc2
Hue
64°
yellow
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9592
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
28/100 cool
Color family
Yellow
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
20.18:1
Closest name
Lemon Chiffon
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
30.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.982
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 22.2
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue64° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #fbffc2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool28% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red21%
Green75%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#fbffc2
HEX (8-digit)#fbffc2ff
RGBrgb(251, 255, 194)
RGBArgba(251, 255, 194, 1)
HSLhsl(64, 100%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(64, 24%, 100%)
HWBhwb(64 76% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 0%, 24%, 0%)
LABlab(98.4 -10.9 28.8)
LCHlch(98.4 30.8 110.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.982 0.078 110.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(85.28, 95.93, 65.05)
Decimal16515010
Display P3color(display-p3 0.984 1.000 0.761)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #fbffc2;
background-color: #fbffc2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #fbffc2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#fbffc2] bg-[#fbffc2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #fbffc2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.984, green: 1.000, blue: 0.761)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.984, green: 1.000, blue: 0.761, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#FBFFC2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFFBFFC2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFFBFFC2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(194, 255, 251)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(251, 255, 194)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(251, 255, 194)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 251, 255, 194)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9843f, 1.0000f, 0.7608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{251,255,194}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #fbffc2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #fbffc2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#778000, #ECEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #fbffc2 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: #FDFEF1;
  --brand-100: #FBFCE3;
  --brand-200: #fbffc2;
  --brand-300: #F8FF8F;
  --brand-400: #F4FF57;
  --brand-500: #F0FF1F;
  --brand-600: #E5F500;
  --brand-700: #BFCC00;
  --brand-800: #99A300;
  --brand-900: #6E7605;
  --brand-950: #454903;
  --brand: #fbffc2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #FAFAF4;
  --brand-border: #EAEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #F9FF9E;
  --brand-pressed: #F6FF7A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #232414;
    --brand-ink: #ECEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FDFEF1',
        100: '#FBFCE3',
        200: '#fbffc2',
        300: '#F8FF8F',
        400: '#F4FF57',
        500: '#F0FF1F',
        600: '#E5F500',
        700: '#BFCC00',
        800: '#99A300',
        900: '#6E7605',
        950: '#454903',
        DEFAULT: '#fbffc2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FDFEF1,
  '100': #FBFCE3,
  '200': #fbffc2,
  '300': #F8FF8F,
  '400': #F4FF57,
  '500': #F0FF1F,
  '600': #E5F500,
  '700': #BFCC00,
  '800': #99A300,
  '900': #6E7605,
  '950': #454903,
);
$brand-base: #fbffc2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FDFEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#FBFCE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#fbffc2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#F8FF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#F4FF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#F0FF1F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#E5F500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#BFCC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#99A300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#6E7605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#454903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #fbffc2 · 20.18:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.04:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.18:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #fbffc2 as text scores 1.04:1 on white and 20.18:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #778000 at 4.14:1.

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
#727A00 · 4.67:1
AA on white−64% L
#727A00
The quick fox
#565C00 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−70% L
#565C00
The quick fox
#fbffc2 · 20.18:1
AA on blackalready passes
#fbffc2
The quick fox
#fbffc2 · 20.18:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#fbffc2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #8F9900 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
#fbffc2 on white: 1.04:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#fbffc2 on black: 20.18:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #fbffc2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #fbffc2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.04:1AaAa
Slate 501.01:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.43:1AaAa
Slate 4002.46:1AaAa
Slate 5004.57:1AaAa
Slate 6007.28:1AaAa
Slate 7009.95:1AaAa
Slate 80014.06:1AaAa
Slate 90017.16:1AaAa
Black20.18:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF9BE
deuteranopia · #FFFBC4
tritanopia · #FFF8EF

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. #fbffc2 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.

#FDFEF1
#FBFCE3
#fbffc2
#F8FF8F
#F4FF57
#F0FF1F
#E5F500
#BFCC00
#99A300
#6E7605
#454903
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FDFEF1Darkest = 950 · #454903Text 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 0.019 110.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.031 110.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.047 110.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.061 110.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.072 110.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.078 110.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.078 110.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.073 110.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.066 110.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.055 110.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.043 110.9);
}

Colors that work with #fbffc2

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#FAFAF4
Tinted page background
Border#EAEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#969B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0025CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#778000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FDFFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#232414
Dark-mode background
Hover#F9FF9E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#F6FF7A
Two steps down
Disabled#F7F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#FCFFD6
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 #fbffc2

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
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • 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 #778000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #8F9900

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

optimisticalertcheap-and-cheerfulvisible

The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail.

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

Almost never passes contrast against white. Treat it as a surface or a marker, not as text.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight12/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • 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#C6C2FF
Analogous left#FFE4C2
Analogous right#DCFFC2
Split-complement 1#C2DCFF
Split-complement 2#E4C2FF
Triadic 1#C2FBFF
Triadic 2#FFC2FB
Tetradic#C2FFE4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°64°

#fbffc2 sits at 64°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red98.4%
Green100.0%
Blue76.1%
R · 0–255
251
0xfb
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
194
0xc2

CMYK percentages

Cyan1.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow23.9%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 26%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#fbffc2 text on a black background

contrast 20.18:1

Card sample

#fbffc2 text on a white background

contrast 1.04:1

Card sample

#fbffc2 on grey

1.05:1

#fbffc2 on its own surface

1.01:1

#fbffc2 on its dark surface

15.13:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #fbffc2;
Background color
Panel with #fbffc2 background
background-color: #fbffc2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #fbffc2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(251, 255, 194, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(251, 255, 194, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #fbffc2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #fbffc2, #D2FFC2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fbffc2, #C3FFC2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #fbffc2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #fbffc2;
caret-color: #fbffc2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #fbffc2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FDFFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #fbffc2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#fbffc2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #fbffc2 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(251, 255, 194, 0.5)
rgb(251 255 194 / 50%)
#fbffc280
hsl(64 100% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #fbffc2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#fbffc21a#FFFFF9
20%#fbffc233#FEFFF3
40%#fbffc266#FDFFE7
60%#fbffc299#FDFFDA
80%#fbffc2cc#FCFFCE

Gradients from #fbffc2

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, #FEFFEB, #fbffc2 45%, #778000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #fbffc2, #B4FFA3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #fbffc2, #C6C2FF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FEFFF0 0%, #fbffc2 45%, #778000 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #FAFAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFAF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EBFFE0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #778000 0%, transparent 65%), #fbffc2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #fbffc2

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.

#fbffc2 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
RetailLeisureEnergyWarning systems
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 20.18:1.

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.

#fbffc2, answered

What color is #fbffc2?

#fbffc2 is a pale electric yellow, closest to Lemon Chiffon (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 64° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #fbffc2?

rgb(251, 255, 194) — 251 red, 255 green and 194 blue out of 255, or 98.4% / 100% / 76.1% by channel.

What is #fbffc2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(64, 100%, 88%) and hsv(64, 24%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #fbffc2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9592 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 20.18:1.

Should I use black or white text on #fbffc2?

Black. It scores 20.18:1 against #fbffc2, versus 1.04:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #fbffc2 accessible on a white background?

#fbffc2 on white scores 1.04:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #727A00 to reach 4.5:1, or #565C00 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #fbffc2?

#C6C2FF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C2DCFF and #E4C2FF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #fbffc2?

For interface work: #FAFAF4 as the surface, #EAEDC0 for borders, #969B4B for secondary text, #0025CC as an accent and #778000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FFE4C2 and #DCFFC2 stays calm, while #C6C2FF is the loudest partner.

What is #fbffc2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 0%, 24%, 0%). 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 #fbffc2 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 28 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FFEDC2; nudged cooler, #E5FFC2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #fbffc2?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 22.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #fbffc2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #fbffc2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#fbffc2] or text-[#fbffc2], 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 #fbffc2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(251, 255, 194, 0.5), or #fbffc280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FDFFE1; over black, #7E8061.

Is #fbffc2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 2.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #fbffc2 mean?

As a yellow, it reads optimistic, alert, cheap-and-cheerful. The most visible hue at low light levels, which is why it owns warnings, hazard tape and value retail. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #fbffc2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FEFFEB, #fbffc2 45%, #778000). For more colour, a short hue run to #B4FFA3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #fbffc2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #fbffc2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.