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#ceecba

a light, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Light Goldenrod Yellow

Token name suggestion: Drift Fern

RGB
206, 236, 186
HSL
96°, 57%, 83%
CMYK
13, 0, 21, 8
Luminance
0.7666

#ceecba is a light vivid green, 96° on the wheel and 53/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.33:1). As text it scores 1.29:1 on white — use #4A8324 instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(96 57% 83%)rgb(206 236 186)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

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

Hex
#ceecba
Hue
96°
green
Saturation
57%
vivid
Lightness
83%
light
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7666
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
53/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.33:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 9.6
Chroma
28.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.908
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 19.4
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue96° of 360°
Saturation57%
Lightness83%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool53% cool

Reads neutral. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red17%
Green78%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#ceecba
HEX (8-digit)#ceecbaff
RGBrgb(206, 236, 186)
RGBArgba(206, 236, 186, 1)
HSLhsl(96, 57%, 83%)
HSV / HSBhsv(96, 21%, 93%)
HWBhwb(96 73% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 21%, 8%)
LABlab(90.2 -18.6 21.1)
LCHlch(90.2 28.1 131.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.908 0.074 133.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(64.31, 76.66, 57.85)
Decimal13561018
Display P3color(display-p3 0.808 0.925 0.729)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ceecba;
background-color: #ceecba;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ceecba;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ceecba] bg-[#ceecba]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ceecba;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.808, green: 0.925, blue: 0.729)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.808, green: 0.925, blue: 0.729, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CEECBA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCEECBA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCEECBA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(186, 236, 206)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(206, 236, 186)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(206, 236, 186)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 206, 236, 186)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8078f, 0.9255f, 0.7294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{206,236,186}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ceecba 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ceecba 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#39641C, #DEEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ceecba 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: #F7FBF4;
  --brand-100: #EEF6E9;
  --brand-200: #ceecba;
  --brand-300: #C1E7A7;
  --brand-400: #A1DB7B;
  --brand-500: #82CF4F;
  --brand-600: #6CC035;
  --brand-700: #5AA02C;
  --brand-800: #488023;
  --brand-900: #375D1D;
  --brand-950: #223A12;
  --brand: #ceecba;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D2EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #BAE49E;
  --brand-pressed: #A6DD82;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A2414;
    --brand-ink: #DEEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FBF4',
        100: '#EEF6E9',
        200: '#ceecba',
        300: '#C1E7A7',
        400: '#A1DB7B',
        500: '#82CF4F',
        600: '#6CC035',
        700: '#5AA02C',
        800: '#488023',
        900: '#375D1D',
        950: '#223A12',
        DEFAULT: '#ceecba',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FBF4,
  '100': #EEF6E9,
  '200': #ceecba,
  '300': #C1E7A7,
  '400': #A1DB7B,
  '500': #82CF4F,
  '600': #6CC035,
  '700': #5AA02C,
  '800': #488023,
  '900': #375D1D,
  '950': #223A12,
);
$brand-base: #ceecba;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEF6E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ceecba", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C1E7A7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A1DB7B", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#82CF4F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6CC035", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5AA02C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#488023", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#375D1D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#223A12", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ceecba · 16.33:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.29:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.33:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ceecba as text scores 1.29:1 on white and 16.33:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #39641C at 5.42:1.

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
#4A8324 · 4.60:1
AA on white−50% L
#4A8324
The quick fox
#38631B · 7.07:1
AAA on white−58% L
#38631B
The quick fox
#ceecba · 16.33:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ceecba
The quick fox
#ceecba · 16.33:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ceecba

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #5CA32D 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
#ceecba on white: 1.29:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ceecba on black: 16.33:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.29:1AaAa
Slate 501.23:1AaAa
Slate 1001.17:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.15:1AaAa
Slate 4001.99:1AaAa
Slate 5003.70:1AaAa
Slate 6005.89:1AaAa
Slate 7008.05:1AaAa
Slate 80011.38:1AaAa
Slate 90013.88:1AaAa
Black16.33:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F1E4B7
deuteranopia · #ECE2BC
tritanopia · #CFE8DE

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. #ceecba 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.

#F7FBF4
#EEF6E9
#ceecba
#C1E7A7
#A1DB7B
#82CF4F
#6CC035
#5AA02C
#488023
#375D1D
#223A12
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7FBF4Darkest = 950 · #223A12Text step on white = 800
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 0.018 133.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.029 133.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.044 133.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.057 133.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.068 133.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.074 133.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.074 133.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.069 133.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.062 133.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.052 133.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.040 133.0);
}

Colors that work with #ceecba

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#F7FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#D2EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6B9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#5327A5
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#39641C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1F9EB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#BAE49E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A6DD82
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D9F4C6
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 #ceecba

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 #39641C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #5CA32D

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight17/100
  • TemperatureNeutral
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#D8BAEC
Analogous left#E7ECBA
Analogous right#BAECBF
Split-complement 1#BFBAEC
Split-complement 2#ECBAE7
Triadic 1#BACEEC
Triadic 2#ECBACE
Tetradic#BAE7EC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°96°

#ceecba sits at 96°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.8%
Green92.5%
Blue72.9%
R · 0–255
206
0xce
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
186
0xba

CMYK percentages

Cyan12.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow21.2%
Key (black)7.5%

Total ink coverage is 41%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ceecba text on a black background

contrast 16.33:1

Card sample

#ceecba text on a white background

contrast 1.29:1

Card sample

#ceecba on grey

1.17:1

#ceecba on its own surface

1.22:1

#ceecba on its dark surface

12.50:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(206, 236, 186, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(206, 236, 186, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ceecba;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ceecba, #BAECC7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceecba, #BAECD4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ceecba;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ceecba;
caret-color: #ceecba;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ceecba;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1F9EB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ceecba;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ceecba 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ceecba 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(206, 236, 186, 0.5)
rgb(206 236 186 / 50%)
#ceecba80
hsl(96 57% 83% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ceecba 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ceecba1a#FAFDF8
20%#ceecba33#F5FBF1
40%#ceecba66#EBF7E3
60%#ceecba99#E2F4D6
80%#ceecbacc#D8F0C8

Gradients from #ceecba

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, #F0F9EA, #ceecba 45%, #39641C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ceecba, #A2E5B9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceecba, #D8BAEC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F6FCF3 0%, #ceecba 45%, #39641C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F7F7E2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D2F3D8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #39641C 0%, transparent 65%), #ceecba;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ceecba

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.

#ceecba 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 16.33:1.

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.

#ceecba, answered

What color is #ceecba?

#ceecba is a light vivid green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 9.6). It sits at 96° on the hue wheel with 57% saturation and 83% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #ceecba?

rgb(206, 236, 186) — 206 red, 236 green and 186 blue out of 255, or 80.8% / 92.5% / 72.9% by channel.

What is #ceecba in HSL and HSV?

hsl(96, 57%, 83%) and hsv(96, 21%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ceecba a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7666 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 16.33:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ceecba?

Black. It scores 16.33:1 against #ceecba, versus 1.29:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ceecba accessible on a white background?

#ceecba on white scores 1.29:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #4A8324 to reach 4.5:1, or #38631B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ceecba?

#D8BAEC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BFBAEC and #ECBAE7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ceecba?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D2EDC0 for borders, #6B9B4B for secondary text, #5327A5 as an accent and #39641C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E7ECBA and #BAECBF stays calm, while #D8BAEC is the loudest partner.

What is #ceecba in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 21%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ceecba warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 53 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E0ECBA; nudged cooler, #BBEDB9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ceecba?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 19.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ceecba as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ceecba in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(206, 236, 186, 0.5), or #ceecba80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F6DD; over black, #67765D.

Is #ceecba a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 5.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ceecba 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 #ceecba?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0F9EA, #ceecba 45%, #39641C). For more colour, a short hue run to #A2E5B9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ceecba in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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