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#c0ffcc

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Basil

RGB
192, 255, 204
HSL
131°, 100%, 88%
CMYK
25, 0, 20, 0
Luminance
0.8709

#c0ffcc is a pale electric green, 131° on the wheel and 67/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.42:1). As text it scores 1.14:1 on white — use #00881A instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(131 100% 88%)rgb(192 255 204)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c0ffcc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c0ffcc
Hue
131°
green
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8709
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
67/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.42:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 8.9
Chroma
34.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.944
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 20.1
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue131° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c0ffcc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool67% 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%
Green82%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#c0ffcc
HEX (8-digit)#c0ffccff
RGBrgb(192, 255, 204)
RGBArgba(192, 255, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(131, 100%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(131, 25%, 100%)
HWBhwb(131 75% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 20%, 0%)
LABlab(94.8 -29.4 18.1)
LCHlch(94.8 34.5 148.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.944 0.093 150.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(68.39, 87.08, 70.32)
Decimal12648396
Display P3color(display-p3 0.753 1.000 0.800)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c0ffcc;
background-color: #c0ffcc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c0ffcc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c0ffcc] bg-[#c0ffcc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c0ffcc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.753, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.753, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C0FFCC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC0FFCC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC0FFCC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 255, 192)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(192, 255, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(192, 255, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 192, 255, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7529f, 1.0000f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{192,255,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c0ffcc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c0ffcc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#008018, #D3EED8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c0ffcc 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: #F1FEF3;
  --brand-100: #E3FCE8;
  --brand-200: #c0ffcc;
  --brand-300: #8FFFA4;
  --brand-400: #57FF77;
  --brand-500: #1FFF49;
  --brand-600: #00F52F;
  --brand-700: #00CC27;
  --brand-800: #00A31F;
  --brand-900: #05761A;
  --brand-950: #034910;
  --brand: #c0ffcc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC8;
  --brand-hover: #9CFFAF;
  --brand-pressed: #78FF92;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142417;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FEF3',
        100: '#E3FCE8',
        200: '#c0ffcc',
        300: '#8FFFA4',
        400: '#57FF77',
        500: '#1FFF49',
        600: '#00F52F',
        700: '#00CC27',
        800: '#00A31F',
        900: '#05761A',
        950: '#034910',
        DEFAULT: '#c0ffcc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FEF3,
  '100': #E3FCE8,
  '200': #c0ffcc,
  '300': #8FFFA4,
  '400': #57FF77,
  '500': #1FFF49,
  '600': #00F52F,
  '700': #00CC27,
  '800': #00A31F,
  '900': #05761A,
  '950': #034910,
);
$brand-base: #c0ffcc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FEF3", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCE8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c0ffcc", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FFFA4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#57FF77", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#1FFF49", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00F52F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#00CC27", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#00A31F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#05761A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#034910", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c0ffcc · 18.42:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.14:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.42:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c0ffcc as text scores 1.14:1 on white and 18.42:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #008018 at 4.49:1.

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
#00881A · 4.63:1
AA on white−61% L
#00881A
The quick fox
#006413 · 7.41:1
AAA on white−68% L
#006413
The quick fox
#c0ffcc · 18.42:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c0ffcc
The quick fox
#c0ffcc · 18.42:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c0ffcc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #00AB21 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
#c0ffcc on white: 1.14:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c0ffcc on black: 18.42:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c0ffcc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c0ffcc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.14:1AaAa
Slate 501.09:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.08:1AaAa
Slate 3001.30:1AaAa
Slate 4002.25:1AaAa
Slate 5004.17:1AaAa
Slate 6006.65:1AaAa
Slate 7009.08:1AaAa
Slate 80012.83:1AaAa
Slate 90015.66:1AaAa
Black18.42:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF4C9
deuteranopia · #F5EDCF
tritanopia · #B8FDF1

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. #c0ffcc 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.

#F1FEF3
#E3FCE8
#c0ffcc
#8FFFA4
#57FF77
#1FFF49
#00F52F
#00CC27
#00A31F
#05761A
#034910
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F1FEF3Darkest = 950 · #034910Text 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 0.023 150.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 150.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 150.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.073 150.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.086 150.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.093 150.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.093 150.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.088 150.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.078 150.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.065 150.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.051 150.1);
}

Colors that work with #c0ffcc

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#C0EDC8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B5A
Captions on the surface
Accent#BF00CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#008018
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5FFEA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142417
Dark-mode background
Hover#9CFFAF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#78FF92
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D4FFDC
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 #c0ffcc

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 #008018
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #00AB21

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#FFC0F3
Analogous left#D3FFC0
Analogous right#C0FFEB
Split-complement 1#EBC0FF
Split-complement 2#FFC0D3
Triadic 1#CCC0FF
Triadic 2#FFCCC0
Tetradic#C0D3FF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°131°

#c0ffcc sits at 131°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red75.3%
Green100.0%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
192
0xc0
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow20.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 45%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c0ffcc text on a black background

contrast 18.42:1

Card sample

#c0ffcc text on a white background

contrast 1.14:1

Card sample

#c0ffcc on grey

1.04:1

#c0ffcc on its own surface

1.08:1

#c0ffcc on its dark surface

14.23:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c0ffcc;
Background color
Panel with #c0ffcc background
background-color: #c0ffcc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c0ffcc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(192, 255, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(192, 255, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c0ffcc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c0ffcc, #C0FFF6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c0ffcc, #C0F8FF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c0ffcc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c0ffcc;
caret-color: #c0ffcc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c0ffcc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5FFEA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c0ffcc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c0ffcc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c0ffcc 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(192, 255, 204, 0.5)
rgb(192 255 204 / 50%)
#c0ffcc80
hsl(131 100% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c0ffcc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c0ffcc1a#F9FFFA
20%#c0ffcc33#F2FFF5
40%#c0ffcc66#E6FFEB
60%#c0ffcc99#D9FFE0
80%#c0ffcccc#CDFFD6

Gradients from #c0ffcc

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, #EBFFEE, #c0ffcc 45%, #008018);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c0ffcc, #A1FFF9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c0ffcc, #FFC0F3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFF3 0%, #c0ffcc 45%, #008018 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%, #F8FFF3 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DEFFF8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #008018 0%, transparent 65%), #c0ffcc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c0ffcc

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.

#c0ffcc 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 18.42:1.

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.

#c0ffcc, answered

What color is #c0ffcc?

#c0ffcc is a pale electric green, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 8.9). It sits at 131° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c0ffcc?

rgb(192, 255, 204) — 192 red, 255 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 75.3% / 100% / 80% by channel.

What is #c0ffcc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(131, 100%, 88%) and hsv(131, 25%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c0ffcc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8709 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 18.42:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c0ffcc?

Black. It scores 18.42:1 against #c0ffcc, versus 1.14:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c0ffcc accessible on a white background?

#c0ffcc on white scores 1.14:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #00881A to reach 4.5:1, or #006413 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c0ffcc?

#FFC0F3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EBC0FF and #FFC0D3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c0ffcc?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC8 for borders, #4B9B5A for secondary text, #BF00CC as an accent and #008018 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D3FFC0 and #C0FFEB stays calm, while #FFC0F3 is the loudest partner.

What is #c0ffcc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 20%, 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 #c0ffcc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 67 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CBFFC0; nudged cooler, #C0FFE3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c0ffcc?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 20.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c0ffcc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c0ffcc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c0ffcc] or text-[#c0ffcc], 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 #c0ffcc with 50% opacity?

rgba(192, 255, 204, 0.5), or #c0ffcc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E0FFE6; over black, #608066.

Is #c0ffcc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 2.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c0ffcc 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 #c0ffcc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFFEE, #c0ffcc 45%, #008018). For more colour, a short hue run to #A1FFF9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c0ffcc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c0ffcc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.