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#afffe2

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

Token name suggestion: Drift Basil

RGB
175, 255, 226
HSL
158°, 100%, 84%
CMYK
31, 0, 11, 0
Luminance
0.8612

#afffe2 is a light electric green, 158° on the wheel and 78/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.22:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #008655 instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(158 100% 84%)rgb(175 255 226)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #afffe2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#afffe2
Hue
158°
green
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
84%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8612
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
78/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.22:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 5.9
Chroma
31.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.940
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 19.7
Web-safe
#99FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue158° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness84%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #afffe2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool78% 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
Red11%
Green83%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#afffe2
HEX (8-digit)#afffe2ff
RGBrgb(175, 255, 226)
RGBArgba(175, 255, 226, 1)
HSLhsl(158, 100%, 84%)
HSV / HSBhsv(158, 31%, 100%)
HWBhwb(158 69% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(31%, 0%, 11%, 0%)
LABlab(94.4 -30.4 6.1)
LCHlch(94.4 31.0 168.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.940 0.088 169.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.16, 86.12, 85.02)
Decimal11534306
Display P3color(display-p3 0.686 1.000 0.886)
Web-safe#99FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #afffe2;
background-color: #afffe2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #afffe2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#afffe2] bg-[#afffe2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #afffe2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.686, green: 1.000, blue: 0.886)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 1.000, blue: 0.886, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#AFFFE2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFAFFFE2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFAFFFE2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(226, 255, 175)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(175, 255, 226)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(175, 255, 226)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 175, 255, 226)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.6863f, 1.0000f, 0.8863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{175,255,226}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #afffe2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #afffe2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#008051, #D3EEE4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #afffe2 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: #F1FEF9;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF3;
  --brand-200: #afffe2;
  --brand-300: #8FFFD6;
  --brand-400: #57FFC2;
  --brand-500: #1FFFAD;
  --brand-600: #00F59C;
  --brand-700: #00CC82;
  --brand-800: #00A368;
  --brand-900: #05764D;
  --brand-950: #034930;
  --brand: #afffe2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDC;
  --brand-hover: #8BFFD5;
  --brand-pressed: #68FFC8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241E;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FEF9',
        100: '#E3FCF3',
        200: '#afffe2',
        300: '#8FFFD6',
        400: '#57FFC2',
        500: '#1FFFAD',
        600: '#00F59C',
        700: '#00CC82',
        800: '#00A368',
        900: '#05764D',
        950: '#034930',
        DEFAULT: '#afffe2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FEF9,
  '100': #E3FCF3,
  '200': #afffe2,
  '300': #8FFFD6,
  '400': #57FFC2,
  '500': #1FFFAD,
  '600': #00F59C,
  '700': #00CC82,
  '800': #00A368,
  '900': #05764D,
  '950': #034930,
);
$brand-base: #afffe2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FEF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#afffe2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FFFD6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57FFC2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#1FFFAD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00F59C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#00CC82", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#00A368", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#05764D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#034930", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #afffe2 · 18.22:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.22:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #afffe2 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.22:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #008051 at 4.33:1.

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
#008655 · 4.62:1
AA on white−58% L
#008655
The quick fox
#00623F · 7.45:1
AAA on white−65% L
#00623F
The quick fox
#afffe2 · 18.22:1
AA on blackalready passes
#afffe2
The quick fox
#afffe2 · 18.22:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#afffe2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #00AA6C 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
#afffe2 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#afffe2 on black: 18.22:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #afffe2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #afffe2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.13:1AaAa
Slate 6006.58:1AaAa
Slate 7008.99:1AaAa
Slate 80012.70:1AaAa
Slate 90015.49:1AaAa
Black18.22:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBF5E1
deuteranopia · #EDEBE4
tritanopia · #9BFFF6

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. #afffe2 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.

#F1FEF9
#E3FCF3
#afffe2
#8FFFD6
#57FFC2
#1FFFAD
#00F59C
#00CC82
#00A368
#05764D
#034930
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F1FEF9Darkest = 950 · #034930Text 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 0.022 169.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 169.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.053 169.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.069 169.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.081 169.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.088 169.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.088 169.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.083 169.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.074 169.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.062 169.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.048 169.7);
}

Colors that work with #afffe2

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#C0EDDC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B7E
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC007D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#008051
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5FFF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241E
Dark-mode background
Hover#8BFFD5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#68FFC8
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#C3FFE9
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 #afffe2

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 #008051
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #00AA6C

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
  • Weight16/100
  • 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#FFAFCC
Analogous left#AFFFBA
Analogous right#AFF4FF
Split-complement 1#FFAFF4
Split-complement 2#FFBAAF
Triadic 1#E2AFFF
Triadic 2#FFE2AF
Tetradic#BAAFFF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°158°

#afffe2 sits at 158°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red68.6%
Green100.0%
Blue88.6%
R · 0–255
175
0xaf
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
226
0xe2

CMYK percentages

Cyan31.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow11.4%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 43%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#afffe2 text on a black background

contrast 18.22:1

Card sample

#afffe2 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#afffe2 on grey

1.05:1

#afffe2 on its own surface

1.09:1

#afffe2 on its dark surface

14.01:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #afffe2;
Background color
Panel with #afffe2 background
background-color: #afffe2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #afffe2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(175, 255, 226, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(175, 255, 226, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #afffe2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #afffe2, #AFE7FF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afffe2, #AFD3FF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #afffe2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #afffe2;
caret-color: #afffe2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #afffe2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5FFF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #afffe2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#afffe2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #afffe2 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(175, 255, 226, 0.5)
rgb(175 255 226 / 50%)
#afffe280
hsl(158 100% 84% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #afffe2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#afffe21a#F7FFFC
20%#afffe233#EFFFF9
40%#afffe266#DFFFF3
60%#afffe299#CFFFEE
80%#afffe2cc#BFFFE8

Gradients from #afffe2

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, #EBFFF8, #afffe2 45%, #008051);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #afffe2, #90D4FF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #afffe2, #FFAFCC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFF9 0%, #afffe2 45%, #008051 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%, #E2FFE3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #CEF4FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #008051 0%, transparent 65%), #afffe2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #afffe2

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.

#afffe2 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

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 18.22:1.

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.

#afffe2, answered

What color is #afffe2?

#afffe2 is a light electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 5.9). It sits at 158° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 84% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #afffe2?

rgb(175, 255, 226) — 175 red, 255 green and 226 blue out of 255, or 68.6% / 100% / 88.6% by channel.

What is #afffe2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(158, 100%, 84%) and hsv(158, 31%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #afffe2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8612 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 18.22:1.

Should I use black or white text on #afffe2?

Black. It scores 18.22:1 against #afffe2, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #afffe2 accessible on a white background?

#afffe2 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #008655 to reach 4.5:1, or #00623F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #afffe2?

#FFAFCC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FFAFF4 and #FFBAAF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #afffe2?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDC for borders, #4B9B7E for secondary text, #CC007D as an accent and #008051 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #AFFFBA and #AFF4FF stays calm, while #FFAFCC is the loudest partner.

What is #afffe2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(31%, 0%, 11%, 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 #afffe2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 78 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #AFFFC5; nudged cooler, #AFFFFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #afffe2?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 19.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #afffe2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #afffe2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#afffe2] or text-[#afffe2], 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 #afffe2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(175, 255, 226, 0.5), or #afffe280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #D7FFF1; over black, #588071.

Is #afffe2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFCC, ΔE2000 5.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #afffe2 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 #afffe2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFFF8, #afffe2 45%, #008051). For more colour, a short hue run to #90D4FF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #afffe2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #afffe2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.