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#adeacf

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

Token name suggestion: Meadow Jade

RGB
173, 234, 207
HSL
153°, 59%, 80%
CMYK
26, 0, 12, 8
Luminance
0.7223

#adeacf is a light vivid green, 153° on the wheel and 76/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.45:1). As text it scores 1.36:1 on white — use #228559 instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(153 59% 80%)rgb(173 234 207)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#adeacf
Hue
153°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
80%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
84%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7223
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
76/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.45:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 8.5
Chroma
25.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.888
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 17.4
Web-safe
#99FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue153° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness80%
Saturation × lightness field

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

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
Red12%
Green81%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#adeacf
HEX (8-digit)#adeacfff
RGBrgb(173, 234, 207)
RGBArgba(173, 234, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(153, 59%, 80%)
HSV / HSBhsv(153, 26%, 92%)
HWBhwb(153 68% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(26%, 0%, 12%, 8%)
LABlab(88.1 -24.7 6.9)
LCHlch(88.1 25.7 164.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.888 0.072 165.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(57.92, 72.23, 69.91)
Decimal11397839
Display P3color(display-p3 0.678 0.918 0.812)
Web-safe#99FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #adeacf;
background-color: #adeacf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #adeacf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#adeacf] bg-[#adeacf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #adeacf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.678, green: 0.918, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.678, green: 0.918, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#ADEACF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFADEACF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFADEACF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 234, 173)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(173, 234, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(173, 234, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 173, 234, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6784f, 0.9176f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{173,234,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #adeacf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #adeacf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1A6544, #D3EEE2);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #adeacf 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: #F4FBF8;
  --brand-100: #E9F7F1;
  --brand-200: #CDEFE0;
  --brand-300: #adeacf;
  --brand-400: #79DDB0;
  --brand-500: #4CD196;
  --brand-600: #32C383;
  --brand-700: #2AA26D;
  --brand-800: #218257;
  --brand-900: #1C5F41;
  --brand-950: #113B29;
  --brand: #adeacf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD9;
  --brand-hover: #91E3BE;
  --brand-pressed: #74DBAE;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE2;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF8',
        100: '#E9F7F1',
        200: '#CDEFE0',
        300: '#adeacf',
        400: '#79DDB0',
        500: '#4CD196',
        600: '#32C383',
        700: '#2AA26D',
        800: '#218257',
        900: '#1C5F41',
        950: '#113B29',
        DEFAULT: '#adeacf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF8,
  '100': #E9F7F1,
  '200': #CDEFE0,
  '300': #adeacf,
  '400': #79DDB0,
  '500': #4CD196,
  '600': #32C383,
  '700': #2AA26D,
  '800': #218257,
  '900': #1C5F41,
  '950': #113B29,
);
$brand-base: #adeacf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F7F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CDEFE0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#adeacf", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#79DDB0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4CD196", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#32C383", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2AA26D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#218257", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1C5F41", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#113B29", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #adeacf · 15.45:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.36:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.45:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #adeacf as text scores 1.36:1 on white and 15.45:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1A6544 at 5.17:1.

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
#228559 · 4.60:1
AA on white−47% L
#228559
The quick fox
#1A6543 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−55% L
#1A6543
The quick fox
#adeacf · 15.45:1
AA on blackalready passes
#adeacf
The quick fox
#adeacf · 15.45:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#adeacf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2AA66F 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
#adeacf on white: 1.36:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#adeacf on black: 15.45:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.36:1AaAa
Slate 501.30:1AaAa
Slate 1001.24:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.89:1AaAa
Slate 5003.50:1AaAa
Slate 6005.57:1AaAa
Slate 7007.62:1AaAa
Slate 80010.76:1AaAa
Slate 90013.13:1AaAa
Black15.45:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E7E1CE
deuteranopia · #DDDAD1
tritanopia · #A0EAE2

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. #adeacf 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.

#F4FBF8
#E9F7F1
#CDEFE0
#adeacf
#79DDB0
#4CD196
#32C383
#2AA26D
#218257
#1C5F41
#113B29
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF8Darkest = 950 · #113B29Text 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 0.018 165.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.029 165.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.043 165.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.056 165.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.067 165.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.072 165.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.072 165.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.068 165.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.061 165.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.051 165.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.040 165.7);
}

Colors that work with #adeacf

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#C0EDD9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B77
Captions on the surface
Accent#A6267F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1A6544
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#91E3BE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#74DBAE
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#B9F2D9
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 #adeacf

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 #1A6544
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2AA66F

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • 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#EAADC8
Analogous left#ADEAB0
Analogous right#ADE7EA
Split-complement 1#EAADE7
Split-complement 2#EAB0AD
Triadic 1#CFADEA
Triadic 2#EACFAD
Tetradic#B0ADEA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°153°

#adeacf sits at 153°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red67.8%
Green91.8%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
173
0xad
G · 0–255
234
0xea
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan26.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow11.5%
Key (black)8.2%

Total ink coverage is 46%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#adeacf text on a black background

contrast 15.45:1

Card sample

#adeacf text on a white background

contrast 1.36:1

Card sample

#adeacf on grey

1.24:1

#adeacf on its own surface

1.29:1

#adeacf on its dark surface

11.88:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(173, 234, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(173, 234, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #adeacf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #adeacf, #ADDCEA);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

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

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #adeacf;
caret-color: #adeacf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #adeacf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #adeacf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#adeacf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #adeacf 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(173, 234, 207, 0.5)
rgb(173 234 207 / 50%)
#adeacf80
hsl(153 59% 80% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #adeacf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#adeacf1a#F7FDFA
20%#adeacf33#EFFBF5
40%#adeacf66#DEF7EC
60%#adeacf99#CEF2E2
80%#adeacfcc#BDEED9

Gradients from #adeacf

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, #DEF6EB, #adeacf 45%, #1A6544);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #adeacf, #95CBE4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #adeacf, #EAADC8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FCF8 0%, #adeacf 45%, #1A6544 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%, #D6F4D6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #C5EAF0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1A6544 0%, transparent 65%), #adeacf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #adeacf

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.

#adeacf 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 15.45:1.

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.

#adeacf, answered

What color is #adeacf?

#adeacf is a light vivid green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 8.5). It sits at 153° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 80% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #adeacf?

rgb(173, 234, 207) — 173 red, 234 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 67.8% / 91.8% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #adeacf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(153, 59%, 80%) and hsv(153, 26%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #adeacf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7223 and perceived brightness is 84%, so black text on it reaches 15.45:1.

Should I use black or white text on #adeacf?

Black. It scores 15.45:1 against #adeacf, versus 1.36:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #adeacf accessible on a white background?

#adeacf on white scores 1.36:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #228559 to reach 4.5:1, or #1A6543 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #adeacf?

#EAADC8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EAADE7 and #EAB0AD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #adeacf?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDD9 for borders, #4B9B77 for secondary text, #A6267F as an accent and #1A6544 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #ADEAB0 and #ADE7EA stays calm, while #EAADC8 is the loudest partner.

What is #adeacf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(26%, 0%, 12%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #adeacf 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 #ADEAB9; nudged cooler, #ACEBE6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #adeacf?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 17.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #adeacf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #adeacf in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(173, 234, 207, 0.5), or #adeacf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D6F5E7; over black, #577568.

Is #adeacf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFCC, ΔE2000 7.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #adeacf 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 #adeacf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #DEF6EB, #adeacf 45%, #1A6544). For more colour, a short hue run to #95CBE4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #adeacf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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