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#bef7df

a pale, electric green · cool · closest name: Pale Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
190, 247, 223
HSL
155°, 78%, 86%
CMYK
23, 0, 10, 3
Luminance
0.8280

#bef7df is a pale electric green, 155° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.56:1). As text it scores 1.20:1 on white — use #118755 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(155 78% 86%)rgb(190 247 223)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #bef7df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#bef7df
Hue
155°
green
Saturation
78%
electric
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8280
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.56:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 9.1
Chroma
23.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.931
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.1
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue155° of 360°
Saturation78%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #bef7df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool77% 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
Red13%
Green80%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#bef7df
HEX (8-digit)#bef7dfff
RGBrgb(190, 247, 223)
RGBArgba(190, 247, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(155, 78%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(155, 23%, 97%)
HWBhwb(155 75% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(23%, 0%, 10%, 3%)
LABlab(92.9 -22.7 5.7)
LCHlch(92.9 23.4 165.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.931 0.066 167.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.81, 82.79, 82.21)
Decimal12515295
Display P3color(display-p3 0.745 0.969 0.875)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bef7df;
background-color: #bef7df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bef7df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bef7df] bg-[#bef7df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bef7df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.745, green: 0.969, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.745, green: 0.969, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BEF7DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBEF7DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBEF7DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 247, 190)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(190, 247, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(190, 247, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 190, 247, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7451f, 0.9686f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{190,247,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bef7df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bef7df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0E7248, #D3EEE3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bef7df 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: #E6F9F1;
  --brand-200: #bef7df;
  --brand-300: #9BF3CE;
  --brand-400: #69EDB5;
  --brand-500: #37E69D;
  --brand-600: #1BDA89;
  --brand-700: #16B672;
  --brand-800: #12915C;
  --brand-900: #116944;
  --brand-950: #0B422B;
  --brand: #bef7df;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDA;
  --brand-hover: #9EF3CF;
  --brand-pressed: #7EEFC0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF8',
        100: '#E6F9F1',
        200: '#bef7df',
        300: '#9BF3CE',
        400: '#69EDB5',
        500: '#37E69D',
        600: '#1BDA89',
        700: '#16B672',
        800: '#12915C',
        900: '#116944',
        950: '#0B422B',
        DEFAULT: '#bef7df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF8,
  '100': #E6F9F1,
  '200': #bef7df,
  '300': #9BF3CE,
  '400': #69EDB5,
  '500': #37E69D,
  '600': #1BDA89,
  '700': #16B672,
  '800': #12915C,
  '900': #116944,
  '950': #0B422B,
);
$brand-base: #bef7df;
$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": "#E6F9F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bef7df", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9BF3CE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#69EDB5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#37E69D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1BDA89", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#16B672", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#12915C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#116944", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0B422B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bef7df · 17.56:1
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 · 17.56:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bef7df as text scores 1.20:1 on white and 17.56:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0E7248 at 4.99:1.

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
#118755 · 4.54:1
AA on white−56% L
#118755
The quick fox
#0C633E · 7.32:1
AAA on white−64% L
#0C633E
The quick fox
#bef7df · 17.56:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bef7df
The quick fox
#bef7df · 17.56:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bef7df

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #14A769 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
#bef7df on white: 1.20:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bef7df on black: 17.56:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #bef7df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #bef7df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.20:1AaAa
Slate 501.14:1AaAa
Slate 1001.09:1AaAa
Slate 2001.03:1AaAa
Slate 3001.24:1AaAa
Slate 4002.14:1AaAa
Slate 5003.98:1AaAa
Slate 6006.34:1AaAa
Slate 7008.66:1AaAa
Slate 80012.23:1AaAa
Slate 90014.93:1AaAa
Black17.56:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F4EFDE
deuteranopia · #EAE8E0
tritanopia · #B2F7F0

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. #bef7df 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.

#F3FCF8
#E6F9F1
#bef7df
#9BF3CE
#69EDB5
#37E69D
#1BDA89
#16B672
#12915C
#116944
#0B422B
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF8Darkest = 950 · #0B422BText 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 0.017 167.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 167.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 167.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.052 167.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.061 167.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.066 167.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.066 167.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.062 167.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.056 167.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.046 167.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.036 167.2);
}

Colors that work with #bef7df

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#C0EDDA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B79
Captions on the surface
Accent#B81483
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0E7248
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FCF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#9EF3CF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7EEFC0
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CEFCE8
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #bef7df

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 #0E7248
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #14A769

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight14/100
  • 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#F7BED6
Analogous left#BEF7C3
Analogous right#BEF3F7
Split-complement 1#F7BEF3
Split-complement 2#F7C3BE
Triadic 1#DFBEF7
Triadic 2#F7DFBE
Tetradic#C3BEF7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°155°

#bef7df sits at 155°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.5%
Green96.9%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
190
0xbe
G · 0–255
247
0xf7
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan23.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.7%
Key (black)3.1%

Total ink coverage is 36%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bef7df text on a black background

contrast 17.56:1

Card sample

#bef7df text on a white background

contrast 1.20:1

Card sample

#bef7df on grey

1.09:1

#bef7df on its own surface

1.13:1

#bef7df on its dark surface

13.51:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #bef7df;
Background color
Panel with #bef7df background
background-color: #bef7df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #bef7df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(190, 247, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(190, 247, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bef7df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bef7df, #BEE9F7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bef7df, #BEDBF7);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bef7df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bef7df;
caret-color: #bef7df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bef7df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FCF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bef7df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bef7df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bef7df 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(190, 247, 223, 0.5)
rgb(190 247 223 / 50%)
#bef7df80
hsl(155 78% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bef7df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bef7df1a#F9FEFC
20%#bef7df33#F2FDF9
40%#bef7df66#E5FCF2
60%#bef7df99#D8FAEC
80%#bef7dfcc#CBF9E5

Gradients from #bef7df

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, #EDFDF6, #bef7df 45%, #0E7248);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bef7df, #A3D9F4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bef7df, #F7BED6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FDF8 0%, #bef7df 45%, #0E7248 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%, #ECFDEB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D9F5FA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0E7248 0%, transparent 65%), #bef7df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bef7df

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.

#bef7df 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 17.56:1.

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.

#bef7df, answered

What color is #bef7df?

#bef7df is a pale electric green, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 9.1). It sits at 155° on the hue wheel with 78% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bef7df?

rgb(190, 247, 223) — 190 red, 247 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 74.5% / 96.9% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #bef7df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(155, 78%, 86%) and hsv(155, 23%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bef7df a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8280 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 17.56:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bef7df?

Black. It scores 17.56:1 against #bef7df, versus 1.20:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bef7df accessible on a white background?

#bef7df on white scores 1.20:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #118755 to reach 4.5:1, or #0C633E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bef7df?

#F7BED6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F7BEF3 and #F7C3BE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #bef7df?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDA for borders, #4B9B79 for secondary text, #B81483 as an accent and #0E7248 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BEF7C3 and #BEF3F7 stays calm, while #F7BED6 is the loudest partner.

What is #bef7df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(23%, 0%, 10%, 3%). 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 #bef7df warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 77 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BEF7CA; nudged cooler, #BDF8F5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bef7df?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bef7df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bef7df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#bef7df] or text-[#bef7df], 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 #bef7df with 50% opacity?

rgba(190, 247, 223, 0.5), or #bef7df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DFFBEF; over black, #5F7C70.

Is #bef7df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bef7df 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 #bef7df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EDFDF6, #bef7df 45%, #0E7248). For more colour, a short hue run to #A3D9F4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bef7df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #bef7df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.