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#abfeaf

a light, electric green · cool · closest name: Pale Green

Token name suggestion: Meadow Jade

RGB
171, 254, 175
HSL
123°, 98%, 83%
CMYK
33, 0, 31, 0
Luminance
0.8264

#abfeaf is a light electric green, 123° on the wheel and 64/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.53:1). As text it scores 1.20:1 on white — use #028A08 instead. Nearest name is Pale Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(123 98% 83%)rgb(171 254 175)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#abfeaf
Hue
123°
green
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
83%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8264
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
64/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.53:1
Closest name
Pale Green
ΔE2000 3.6
Chroma
50.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.924
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 16.7
Web-safe
#99FF99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue123° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness83%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool64% 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%
Green86%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#abfeaf
HEX (8-digit)#abfeafff
RGBrgb(171, 254, 175)
RGBArgba(171, 254, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(123, 98%, 83%)
HSV / HSBhsv(123, 33%, 100%)
HWBhwb(123 67% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(33%, 0%, 31%, 0%)
LABlab(92.8 -40.4 30.0)
LCHlch(92.8 50.3 143.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.924 0.134 145.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(59.97, 82.63, 53.34)
Decimal11271855
Display P3color(display-p3 0.671 0.996 0.686)
Web-safe#99FF99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #abfeaf;
background-color: #abfeaf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #abfeaf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#abfeaf] bg-[#abfeaf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #abfeaf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.671, green: 0.996, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.671, green: 0.996, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ABFEAF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFABFEAF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFABFEAF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 254, 171)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(171, 254, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(171, 254, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 171, 254, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6706f, 0.9961f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{171,254,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #abfeaf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #abfeaf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#027E08, #D3EED4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #abfeaf 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: #F1FDF2;
  --brand-100: #E4FCE5;
  --brand-200: #abfeaf;
  --brand-300: #90FE95;
  --brand-400: #59FD61;
  --brand-500: #21FC2C;
  --brand-600: #03F20E;
  --brand-700: #02CA0C;
  --brand-800: #02A10A;
  --brand-900: #06740C;
  --brand-950: #044907;
  --brand: #abfeaf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC2;
  --brand-hover: #88FE8D;
  --brand-pressed: #64FD6C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142414;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDF2',
        100: '#E4FCE5',
        200: '#abfeaf',
        300: '#90FE95',
        400: '#59FD61',
        500: '#21FC2C',
        600: '#03F20E',
        700: '#02CA0C',
        800: '#02A10A',
        900: '#06740C',
        950: '#044907',
        DEFAULT: '#abfeaf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDF2,
  '100': #E4FCE5,
  '200': #abfeaf,
  '300': #90FE95,
  '400': #59FD61,
  '500': #21FC2C,
  '600': #03F20E,
  '700': #02CA0C,
  '800': #02A10A,
  '900': #06740C,
  '950': #044907,
);
$brand-base: #abfeaf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FCE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#abfeaf", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#90FE95", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#59FD61", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#21FC2C", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#03F20E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#02CA0C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#02A10A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#06740C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#044907", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #abfeaf · 17.53:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.20:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.53:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #abfeaf as text scores 1.20:1 on white and 17.53:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #027E08 at 4.39:1.

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
#028A08 · 4.52:1
AA on white−56% L
#028A08
The quick fox
#016606 · 7.23:1
AAA on white−63% L
#016606
The quick fox
#abfeaf · 17.53:1
AA on blackalready passes
#abfeaf
The quick fox
#abfeaf · 17.53:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#abfeaf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02AD0A 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
#abfeaf on white: 1.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#abfeaf on black: 17.53:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.20:1AaAa
Slate 501.15:1AaAa
Slate 1001.09:1AaAa
Slate 2001.03:1AaAa
Slate 3001.24:1AaAa
Slate 4002.14:1AaAa
Slate 5003.97:1AaAa
Slate 6006.32:1AaAa
Slate 7008.64:1AaAa
Slate 80012.21:1AaAa
Slate 90014.90:1AaAa
Black17.53:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF0AA
deuteranopia · #F4E7B3
tritanopia · #A1FAE9

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. #abfeaf 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.

#F1FDF2
#E4FCE5
#abfeaf
#90FE95
#59FD61
#21FC2C
#03F20E
#02CA0C
#02A10A
#06740C
#044907
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F1FDF2Darkest = 950 · #044907Text 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 0.033 145.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.053 145.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.080 145.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.104 145.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.123 145.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.134 145.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.134 145.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.125 145.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.112 145.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.093 145.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.073 145.5);
}

Colors that work with #abfeaf

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#F4FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDC2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B4E
Captions on the surface
Accent#A300CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#027E08
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142414
Dark-mode background
Hover#88FE8D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#64FD6C
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#BEFFC1
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 #abfeaf

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 #027E08
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #02AD0A

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
  • Weight17/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#FEABFA
Analogous left#D0FEAB
Analogous right#ABFED8
Split-complement 1#D8ABFE
Split-complement 2#FEABD0
Triadic 1#AFABFE
Triadic 2#FEAFAB
Tetradic#ABD0FE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°123°

#abfeaf sits at 123°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.1%
Green99.6%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
171
0xab
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan32.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow31.1%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 64%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#abfeaf text on a black background

contrast 17.53:1

Card sample

#abfeaf text on a white background

contrast 1.20:1

Card sample

#abfeaf on grey

1.09:1

#abfeaf on its own surface

1.13:1

#abfeaf on its dark surface

13.56:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(171, 254, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(171, 254, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #abfeaf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #abfeaf, #ABFEE6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

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

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #abfeaf;
caret-color: #abfeaf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #abfeaf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #abfeaf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#abfeaf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #abfeaf 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(171, 254, 175, 0.5)
rgb(171 254 175 / 50%)
#abfeaf80
hsl(123 98% 83% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #abfeaf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#abfeaf1a#F7FFF7
20%#abfeaf33#EEFFEF
40%#abfeaf66#DDFFDF
60%#abfeaf99#CDFECF
80%#abfeafcc#BCFEBF

Gradients from #abfeaf

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, #E7FFE8, #abfeaf 45%, #027E08);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #abfeaf, #8DFEE7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #abfeaf, #FEABFA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFF1 0%, #abfeaf 45%, #027E08 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #EFFFDD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C9FEEB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #027E08 0%, transparent 65%), #abfeaf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #abfeaf

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.

#abfeaf 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 17.53:1.

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.

#abfeaf, answered

What color is #abfeaf?

#abfeaf is a light electric green, closest to Pale Green (ΔE2000 3.6). It sits at 123° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 83% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #abfeaf?

rgb(171, 254, 175) — 171 red, 254 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 67.1% / 99.6% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #abfeaf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(123, 98%, 83%) and hsv(123, 33%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #abfeaf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8264 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 17.53:1.

Should I use black or white text on #abfeaf?

Black. It scores 17.53:1 against #abfeaf, versus 1.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #abfeaf accessible on a white background?

#abfeaf on white scores 1.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #028A08 to reach 4.5:1, or #016606 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #abfeaf?

#FEABFA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D8ABFE and #FEABD0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #abfeaf?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC2 for borders, #4B9B4E for secondary text, #A300CC as an accent and #027E08 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D0FEAB and #ABFED8 stays calm, while #FEABFA is the loudest partner.

What is #abfeaf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(33%, 0%, 31%, 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 #abfeaf warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 64 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C5FEAB; nudged cooler, #AAFFCD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #abfeaf?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 16.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #abfeaf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #abfeaf in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(171, 254, 175, 0.5), or #abfeaf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D5FFD7; over black, #567F58.

Is #abfeaf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FF99, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #abfeaf 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 #abfeaf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #E7FFE8, #abfeaf 45%, #027E08). For more colour, a short hue run to #8DFEE7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #abfeaf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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