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#c3f3df

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
195, 243, 223
HSL
155°, 67%, 86%
CMYK
20, 0, 8, 5
Luminance
0.8103

#c3f3df is a pale vivid green, 155° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.21:1). As text it scores 1.22:1 on white — use #1A8358 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(155 67% 86%)rgb(195 243 223)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c3f3df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c3f3df
Hue
155°
green
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8103
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
17.21:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 8.1
Chroma
19.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.925
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.3
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue155° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c3f3df.

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
Red14%
Green79%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#c3f3df
HEX (8-digit)#c3f3dfff
RGBrgb(195, 243, 223)
RGBArgba(195, 243, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(155, 67%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(155, 20%, 95%)
HWBhwb(155 76% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(20%, 0%, 8%, 5%)
LABlab(92.1 -19.2 4.6)
LCHlch(92.1 19.8 166.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.925 0.056 167.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.87, 81.03, 81.86)
Decimal12841951
Display P3color(display-p3 0.765 0.953 0.875)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c3f3df;
background-color: #c3f3df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c3f3df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c3f3df] bg-[#c3f3df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c3f3df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.765, green: 0.953, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.765, green: 0.953, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C3F3DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC3F3DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC3F3DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 243, 195)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(195, 243, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(195, 243, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 195, 243, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7647f, 0.9529f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{195,243,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c3f3df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c3f3df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#156A47, #D3EEE3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c3f3df 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: #F3FBF8;
  --brand-100: #E8F8F1;
  --brand-200: #c3f3df;
  --brand-300: #A1ECCD;
  --brand-400: #73E3B4;
  --brand-500: #44DA9B;
  --brand-600: #29CC88;
  --brand-700: #22AA71;
  --brand-800: #1B885B;
  --brand-900: #186343;
  --brand-950: #0F3E2A;
  --brand: #c3f3df;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDA;
  --brand-hover: #A5EDCF;
  --brand-pressed: #88E7BF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBF8',
        100: '#E8F8F1',
        200: '#c3f3df',
        300: '#A1ECCD',
        400: '#73E3B4',
        500: '#44DA9B',
        600: '#29CC88',
        700: '#22AA71',
        800: '#1B885B',
        900: '#186343',
        950: '#0F3E2A',
        DEFAULT: '#c3f3df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBF8,
  '100': #E8F8F1,
  '200': #c3f3df,
  '300': #A1ECCD,
  '400': #73E3B4,
  '500': #44DA9B,
  '600': #29CC88,
  '700': #22AA71,
  '800': #1B885B,
  '900': #186343,
  '950': #0F3E2A,
);
$brand-base: #c3f3df;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F8F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c3f3df", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A1ECCD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#73E3B4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#44DA9B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#29CC88", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#22AA71", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1B885B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#186343", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3E2A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c3f3df · 17.21:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.22:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.21:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c3f3df as text scores 1.22:1 on white and 17.21:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #156A47 at 5.40:1.

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
#1A8358 · 4.74:1
AA on white−55% L
#1A8358
The quick fox
#136141 · 7.46:1
AAA on white−63% L
#136141
The quick fox
#c3f3df · 17.21:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c3f3df
The quick fox
#c3f3df · 17.21:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c3f3df

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #21A56E 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
#c3f3df on white: 1.22:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c3f3df on black: 17.21:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c3f3df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c3f3df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.22:1AaAa
Slate 501.17:1AaAa
Slate 1001.11:1AaAa
Slate 2001.01:1AaAa
Slate 3001.22:1AaAa
Slate 4002.10:1AaAa
Slate 5003.90:1AaAa
Slate 6006.21:1AaAa
Slate 7008.48:1AaAa
Slate 80011.99:1AaAa
Slate 90014.63:1AaAa
Black17.21:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F0ECDE
deuteranopia · #E8E6E0
tritanopia · #B9F3ED

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. #c3f3df 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.

#F3FBF8
#E8F8F1
#c3f3df
#A1ECCD
#73E3B4
#44DA9B
#29CC88
#22AA71
#1B885B
#186343
#0F3E2A
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F3FBF8Darkest = 950 · #0F3E2AText 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 0.014 167.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.022 167.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.034 167.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.044 167.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.052 167.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.056 167.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.056 167.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.053 167.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.047 167.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.039 167.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.031 167.8);
}

Colors that work with #c3f3df

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#AD1F7F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#156A47
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFBF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#A5EDCF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#88E7BF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D1F9E9
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 #c3f3df

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 #156A47
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #21A56E

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • 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#F3C3D7
Analogous left#C3F3C7
Analogous right#C3EFF3
Split-complement 1#F3C3EF
Split-complement 2#F3C7C3
Triadic 1#DFC3F3
Triadic 2#F3DFC3
Tetradic#C7C3F3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°155°

#c3f3df sits at 155°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red76.5%
Green95.3%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
195
0xc3
G · 0–255
243
0xf3
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan19.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow8.2%
Key (black)4.7%

Total ink coverage is 33%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c3f3df text on a black background

contrast 17.21:1

Card sample

#c3f3df text on a white background

contrast 1.22:1

Card sample

#c3f3df on grey

1.11:1

#c3f3df on its own surface

1.16:1

#c3f3df on its dark surface

13.24:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c3f3df;
Background color
Panel with #c3f3df background
background-color: #c3f3df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c3f3df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(195, 243, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(195, 243, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c3f3df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c3f3df, #C3E7F3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c3f3df, #C3DBF3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c3f3df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c3f3df;
caret-color: #c3f3df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c3f3df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFBF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c3f3df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c3f3df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c3f3df 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(195, 243, 223, 0.5)
rgb(195 243 223 / 50%)
#c3f3df80
hsl(155 67% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c3f3df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c3f3df1a#F9FEFC
20%#c3f3df33#F3FDF9
40%#c3f3df66#E7FAF2
60%#c3f3df99#DBF8EC
80%#c3f3dfcc#CFF5E5

Gradients from #c3f3df

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, #EEFCF6, #c3f3df 45%, #156A47);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c3f3df, #AAD7EE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c3f3df, #F3C3D7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FCF8 0%, #c3f3df 45%, #156A47 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%, #EEFCEE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DDF4F8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #156A47 0%, transparent 65%), #c3f3df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c3f3df

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.

#c3f3df 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 17.21:1.

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.

#c3f3df, answered

What color is #c3f3df?

#c3f3df is a pale vivid green, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 8.1). It sits at 155° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c3f3df?

rgb(195, 243, 223) — 195 red, 243 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 76.5% / 95.3% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #c3f3df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(155, 67%, 86%) and hsv(155, 20%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c3f3df a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8103 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 17.21:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c3f3df?

Black. It scores 17.21:1 against #c3f3df, versus 1.22:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c3f3df accessible on a white background?

#c3f3df on white scores 1.22:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1A8358 to reach 4.5:1, or #136141 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c3f3df?

#F3C3D7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F3C3EF and #F3C7C3, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c3f3df?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDA for borders, #4B9B79 for secondary text, #AD1F7F as an accent and #156A47 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C3F3C7 and #C3EFF3 stays calm, while #F3C3D7 is the loudest partner.

What is #c3f3df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(20%, 0%, 8%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #c3f3df 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 #C3F3CD; nudged cooler, #C2F4F1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c3f3df?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c3f3df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c3f3df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c3f3df] or text-[#c3f3df], 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 #c3f3df with 50% opacity?

rgba(195, 243, 223, 0.5), or #c3f3df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E1F9EF; over black, #627A70.

Is #c3f3df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 8.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c3f3df 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 #c3f3df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEFCF6, #c3f3df 45%, #156A47). For more colour, a short hue run to #AAD7EE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c3f3df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c3f3df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.