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#a4f2ce

a light, electric green · cool · closest name: Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Drift Jade

RGB
164, 242, 206
HSL
152°, 75%, 80%
CMYK
32, 0, 15, 5
Luminance
0.7585

#a4f2ce is a light electric green, 152° on the wheel and 76/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.17:1). As text it scores 1.30:1 on white — use #138450 instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(152 75% 80%)rgb(164 242 206)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #a4f2ce is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#a4f2ce
Hue
152°
green
Saturation
75%
electric
Lightness
80%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
85%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7585
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
76/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.17:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
32.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.901
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 17.8
Web-safe
#99FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue152° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness80%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #a4f2ce.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool76% 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
Red10%
Green84%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#a4f2ce
HEX (8-digit)#a4f2ceff
RGBrgb(164, 242, 206)
RGBArgba(164, 242, 206, 1)
HSLhsl(152, 75%, 80%)
HSV / HSBhsv(152, 32%, 95%)
HWBhwb(152 64% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(32%, 0%, 15%, 5%)
LABlab(89.8 -31.4 9.8)
LCHlch(89.8 32.9 162.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.901 0.092 164.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(58.20, 75.85, 69.95)
Decimal10810062
Display P3color(display-p3 0.643 0.949 0.808)
Web-safe#99FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #a4f2ce;
background-color: #a4f2ce;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #a4f2ce;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#a4f2ce] bg-[#a4f2ce]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #a4f2ce;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.643, green: 0.949, blue: 0.808)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.643, green: 0.949, blue: 0.808, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#A4F2CE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFA4F2CE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFA4F2CE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(206, 242, 164)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(164, 242, 206)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(164, 242, 206)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 164, 242, 206)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6431f, 0.9490f, 0.8078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{164,242,206}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #a4f2ce 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #a4f2ce 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#107043, #D3EEE1);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #a4f2ce 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: #F3FCF8;
  --brand-100: #E7F9F0;
  --brand-200: #C8F4E0;
  --brand-300: #a4f2ce;
  --brand-400: #6CEAB0;
  --brand-500: #3BE395;
  --brand-600: #1FD681;
  --brand-700: #19B36C;
  --brand-800: #148F56;
  --brand-900: #136740;
  --brand-950: #0C4128;
  --brand: #a4f2ce;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD8;
  --brand-hover: #85EEBD;
  --brand-pressed: #65E9AC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE1;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF8',
        100: '#E7F9F0',
        200: '#C8F4E0',
        300: '#a4f2ce',
        400: '#6CEAB0',
        500: '#3BE395',
        600: '#1FD681',
        700: '#19B36C',
        800: '#148F56',
        900: '#136740',
        950: '#0C4128',
        DEFAULT: '#a4f2ce',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF8,
  '100': #E7F9F0,
  '200': #C8F4E0,
  '300': #a4f2ce,
  '400': #6CEAB0,
  '500': #3BE395,
  '600': #1FD681,
  '700': #19B36C,
  '800': #148F56,
  '900': #136740,
  '950': #0C4128,
);
$brand-base: #a4f2ce;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F9F0", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C8F4E0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#a4f2ce", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6CEAB0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3BE395", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1FD681", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#19B36C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#148F56", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#136740", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C4128", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #a4f2ce · 16.17:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.30:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.17:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #a4f2ce as text scores 1.30:1 on white and 16.17:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #107043 at 4.73:1.

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
#138450 · 4.73:1
AA on white−50% L
#138450
The quick fox
#0E653D · 7.12:1
AAA on white−57% L
#0E653D
The quick fox
#a4f2ce · 16.17:1
AA on blackalready passes
#a4f2ce
The quick fox
#a4f2ce · 16.17:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#a4f2ce

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #18A865 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
#a4f2ce on white: 1.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#a4f2ce on black: 16.17:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #a4f2ce as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #a4f2ce.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.30:1AaAa
Slate 501.24:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.97:1AaAa
Slate 5003.66:1AaAa
Slate 6005.84:1AaAa
Slate 7007.97:1AaAa
Slate 80011.26:1AaAa
Slate 90013.75:1AaAa
Black16.17:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFE7CC
deuteranopia · #E2DED0
tritanopia · #92F2E8

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. #a4f2ce 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.

#F3FCF8
#E7F9F0
#C8F4E0
#a4f2ce
#6CEAB0
#3BE395
#1FD681
#19B36C
#148F56
#136740
#0C4128
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF8Darkest = 950 · #0C4128Text 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 0.023 164.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 164.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.055 164.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.072 164.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.084 164.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.092 164.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.092 164.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.086 164.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.077 164.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.064 164.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.050 164.0);
}

Colors that work with #a4f2ce

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDD8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B76
Captions on the surface
Accent#B61687
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#107043
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FCF3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#85EEBD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#65E9AC
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B2F9D8
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 #a4f2ce

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 #107043
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #18A865

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
  • Weight20/100
  • 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#F2A4C8
Analogous left#A4F2A7
Analogous right#A4EFF2
Split-complement 1#F2A4EF
Split-complement 2#F2A7A4
Triadic 1#CEA4F2
Triadic 2#F2CEA4
Tetradic#A7A4F2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°152°

#a4f2ce sits at 152°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red64.3%
Green94.9%
Blue80.8%
R · 0–255
164
0xa4
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
206
0xce

CMYK percentages

Cyan32.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow14.9%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 52%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#a4f2ce text on a black background

contrast 16.17:1

Card sample

#a4f2ce text on a white background

contrast 1.30:1

Card sample

#a4f2ce on grey

1.19:1

#a4f2ce on its own surface

1.23:1

#a4f2ce on its dark surface

12.44:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #a4f2ce;
Background color
Panel with #a4f2ce background
background-color: #a4f2ce;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #a4f2ce;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(164, 242, 206, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(164, 242, 206, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #a4f2ce;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #a4f2ce, #A4E2F2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a4f2ce, #A4CEF2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #a4f2ce;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #a4f2ce;
caret-color: #a4f2ce;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #a4f2ce;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FCF3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #a4f2ce;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#a4f2ce 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #a4f2ce 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(164, 242, 206, 0.5)
rgb(164 242 206 / 50%)
#a4f2ce80
hsl(152 75% 80% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #a4f2ce 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#a4f2ce1a#F6FEFA
20%#a4f2ce33#EDFCF5
40%#a4f2ce66#DBFAEB
60%#a4f2ce99#C8F7E2
80%#a4f2cecc#B6F5D8

Gradients from #a4f2ce

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, #DAFAEB, #a4f2ce 45%, #107043);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #a4f2ce, #89D1EE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #a4f2ce, #F2A4C8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FDF8 0%, #a4f2ce 45%, #107043 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #D2F8D1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #BFEFF6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #107043 0%, transparent 65%), #a4f2ce;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #a4f2ce

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.

#a4f2ce 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 16.17:1.

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.

#a4f2ce, answered

What color is #a4f2ce?

#a4f2ce is a light electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 152° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 80% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #a4f2ce?

rgb(164, 242, 206) — 164 red, 242 green and 206 blue out of 255, or 64.3% / 94.9% / 80.8% by channel.

What is #a4f2ce in HSL and HSV?

hsl(152, 75%, 80%) and hsv(152, 32%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #a4f2ce a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7585 and perceived brightness is 85%, so black text on it reaches 16.17:1.

Should I use black or white text on #a4f2ce?

Black. It scores 16.17:1 against #a4f2ce, versus 1.30:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #a4f2ce accessible on a white background?

#a4f2ce on white scores 1.30:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #138450 to reach 4.5:1, or #0E653D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #a4f2ce?

#F2A4C8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F2A4EF and #F2A7A4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #a4f2ce?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDD8 for borders, #4B9B76 for secondary text, #B61687 as an accent and #107043 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #A4F2A7 and #A4EFF2 stays calm, while #F2A4C8 is the loudest partner.

What is #a4f2ce in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(32%, 0%, 15%, 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 #a4f2ce warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 76 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #A4F2B1; nudged cooler, #A3F3EB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #a4f2ce?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 17.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #a4f2ce as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #a4f2ce in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#a4f2ce] or text-[#a4f2ce], 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 #a4f2ce with 50% opacity?

rgba(164, 242, 206, 0.5), or #a4f2ce80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D2F9E7; over black, #527967.

Is #a4f2ce a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFCC, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #a4f2ce 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 #a4f2ce?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #DAFAEB, #a4f2ce 45%, #107043). For more colour, a short hue run to #89D1EE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #a4f2ce in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #a4f2ce at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.