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#cdfbe7

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
205, 251, 231
HSL
154°, 85%, 89%
CMYK
18, 0, 8, 2
Luminance
0.8774

#cdfbe7 is a pale electric green, 154° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.55:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #0B8650 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(154 85% 89%)rgb(205 251 231)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #cdfbe7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#cdfbe7
Hue
154°
green
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
89%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8774
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.55:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 8.7
Chroma
19.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.951
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 22
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue154° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness89%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #cdfbe7.

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
Red15%
Green79%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#cdfbe7
HEX (8-digit)#cdfbe7ff
RGBrgb(205, 251, 231)
RGBArgba(205, 251, 231, 1)
HSLhsl(154, 85%, 89%)
HSV / HSBhsv(154, 18%, 98%)
HWBhwb(154 80% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 0%, 8%, 2%)
LABlab(95.0 -18.5 4.7)
LCHlch(95.0 19.1 165.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.951 0.054 166.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(74.09, 87.74, 88.62)
Decimal13499367
Display P3color(display-p3 0.804 0.984 0.906)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #cdfbe7;
background-color: #cdfbe7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #cdfbe7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#cdfbe7] bg-[#cdfbe7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #cdfbe7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.804, green: 0.984, blue: 0.906)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.804, green: 0.984, blue: 0.906, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CDFBE7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCDFBE7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCDFBE7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(231, 251, 205)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(205, 251, 231)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(205, 251, 231)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 205, 251, 231)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8039f, 0.9843f, 0.9059f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{205,251,231}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #cdfbe7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #cdfbe7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#097647, #D3EEE2);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #cdfbe7 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: #F2FCF8;
  --brand-100: #E5FAF1;
  --brand-200: #cdfbe7;
  --brand-300: #97F7CD;
  --brand-400: #63F3B4;
  --brand-500: #2FEE9B;
  --brand-600: #12E388;
  --brand-700: #0FBD71;
  --brand-800: #0C975B;
  --brand-900: #0D6D43;
  --brand-950: #08442A;
  --brand: #cdfbe7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDD9;
  --brand-hover: #ACF8D7;
  --brand-pressed: #8BF6C7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241D;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE2;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCF8',
        100: '#E5FAF1',
        200: '#cdfbe7',
        300: '#97F7CD',
        400: '#63F3B4',
        500: '#2FEE9B',
        600: '#12E388',
        700: '#0FBD71',
        800: '#0C975B',
        900: '#0D6D43',
        950: '#08442A',
        DEFAULT: '#cdfbe7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCF8,
  '100': #E5FAF1,
  '200': #cdfbe7,
  '300': #97F7CD,
  '400': #63F3B4,
  '500': #2FEE9B,
  '600': #12E388,
  '700': #0FBD71,
  '800': #0C975B,
  '900': #0D6D43,
  '950': #08442A,
);
$brand-base: #cdfbe7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FAF1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#cdfbe7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97F7CD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#63F3B4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2FEE9B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#12E388", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0FBD71", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0C975B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0D6D43", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#08442A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #cdfbe7 · 18.55:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.13:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.55:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #cdfbe7 as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.55:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #097647 at 5.02:1.

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
#0B8650 · 4.63:1
AA on white−61% L
#0B8650
The quick fox
#08653D · 7.14:1
AAA on white−68% L
#08653D
The quick fox
#cdfbe7 · 18.55:1
AA on blackalready passes
#cdfbe7
The quick fox
#cdfbe7 · 18.55:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#cdfbe7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0DA764 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
#cdfbe7 on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#cdfbe7 on black: 18.55:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #cdfbe7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #cdfbe7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4002.26:1AaAa
Slate 5004.20:1AaAa
Slate 6006.69:1AaAa
Slate 7009.15:1AaAa
Slate 80012.92:1AaAa
Slate 90015.77:1AaAa
Black18.55:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F9F4E6
deuteranopia · #F0EEE8
tritanopia · #C4FBF5

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. #cdfbe7 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.

#F2FCF8
#E5FAF1
#cdfbe7
#97F7CD
#63F3B4
#2FEE9B
#12E388
#0FBD71
#0C975B
#0D6D43
#08442A
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FCF8Darkest = 950 · #08442AText 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 0.014 166.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.022 166.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.033 166.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.042 166.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.050 166.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.054 166.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.054 166.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.051 166.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.046 166.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.038 166.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.030 166.9);
}

Colors that work with #cdfbe7

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#4B9B78
Captions on the surface
Accent#C10B88
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#097647
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FDF4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241D
Dark-mode background
Hover#ACF8D7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8BF6C7
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D7FEED
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 #cdfbe7

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 #097647
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0DA764

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
  • Weight11/100
  • 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#FBCDE1
Analogous left#CDFBD0
Analogous right#CDF8FB
Split-complement 1#FBCDF8
Split-complement 2#FBD0CD
Triadic 1#E7CDFB
Triadic 2#FBE7CD
Tetradic#D0CDFB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°154°

#cdfbe7 sits at 154°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.4%
Green98.4%
Blue90.6%
R · 0–255
205
0xcd
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
231
0xe7

CMYK percentages

Cyan18.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow8.0%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 28%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#cdfbe7 text on a black background

contrast 18.55:1

Card sample

#cdfbe7 text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#cdfbe7 on grey

1.03:1

#cdfbe7 on its own surface

1.07:1

#cdfbe7 on its dark surface

14.27:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #cdfbe7;
Background color
Panel with #cdfbe7 background
background-color: #cdfbe7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #cdfbe7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(205, 251, 231, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(205, 251, 231, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #cdfbe7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cdfbe7, #CDF0FB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cdfbe7, #CDE5FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #cdfbe7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #cdfbe7;
caret-color: #cdfbe7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #cdfbe7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FDF4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #cdfbe7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#cdfbe7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #cdfbe7 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(205, 251, 231, 0.5)
rgb(205 251 231 / 50%)
#cdfbe780
hsl(154 85% 89% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #cdfbe7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#cdfbe71a#FAFFFD
20%#cdfbe733#F5FEFA
40%#cdfbe766#EBFDF5
60%#cdfbe799#E1FDF1
80%#cdfbe7cc#D7FCEC

Gradients from #cdfbe7

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, #ECFDF6, #cdfbe7 45%, #097647);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #cdfbe7, #B1E2F9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cdfbe7, #FBCDE1);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEF8 0%, #cdfbe7 45%, #097647 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%, #FCFFFC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E9FAFD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #097647 0%, transparent 65%), #cdfbe7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #cdfbe7

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.

#cdfbe7 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 18.55:1.

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.

#cdfbe7, answered

What color is #cdfbe7?

#cdfbe7 is a pale electric green, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 8.7). It sits at 154° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 89% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #cdfbe7?

rgb(205, 251, 231) — 205 red, 251 green and 231 blue out of 255, or 80.4% / 98.4% / 90.6% by channel.

What is #cdfbe7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(154, 85%, 89%) and hsv(154, 18%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #cdfbe7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8774 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.55:1.

Should I use black or white text on #cdfbe7?

Black. It scores 18.55:1 against #cdfbe7, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #cdfbe7 accessible on a white background?

#cdfbe7 on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0B8650 to reach 4.5:1, or #08653D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #cdfbe7?

#FBCDE1 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FBCDF8 and #FBD0CD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #cdfbe7?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDD9 for borders, #4B9B78 for secondary text, #C10B88 as an accent and #097647 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CDFBD0 and #CDF8FB stays calm, while #FBCDE1 is the loudest partner.

What is #cdfbe7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 0%, 8%, 2%). 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 #cdfbe7 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 #CDFBD6; nudged cooler, #CCFCF8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #cdfbe7?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 22 away. That is a visible difference, so define #cdfbe7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #cdfbe7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#cdfbe7] or text-[#cdfbe7], 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 #cdfbe7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(205, 251, 231, 0.5), or #cdfbe780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E6FDF3; over black, #677E74.

Is #cdfbe7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #cdfbe7 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 #cdfbe7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECFDF6, #cdfbe7 45%, #097647). For more colour, a short hue run to #B1E2F9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #cdfbe7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #cdfbe7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.