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#cfe7cf

a pale, soft green · cool · closest name: Honey Dew

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
207, 231, 207
HSL
120°, 33%, 86%
CMYK
10, 0, 10, 9
Luminance
0.7492

#cfe7cf is a pale soft green, 120° on the wheel and 62/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.98:1). As text it scores 1.31:1 on white — use #428442 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(120 33% 86%)rgb(207 231 207)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #cfe7cf is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#cfe7cf
Hue
120°
green
Saturation
33%
soft
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
91%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7492
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
62/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
15.98:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 7.2
Chroma
15.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.904
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 22.5
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue120° of 360°
Saturation33%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #cfe7cf.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool62% 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
Red18%
Green76%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#cfe7cf
HEX (8-digit)#cfe7cfff
RGBrgb(207, 231, 207)
RGBArgba(207, 231, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(120, 33%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(120, 10%, 91%)
HWBhwb(120 81% 9%)
CMYKcmyk(10%, 0%, 10%, 9%)
LABlab(89.4 -12.3 9.0)
LCHlch(89.4 15.3 143.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.904 0.041 145.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(65.57, 74.92, 70.03)
Decimal13625295
Display P3color(display-p3 0.812 0.906 0.812)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #cfe7cf;
background-color: #cfe7cf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #cfe7cf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#cfe7cf] bg-[#cfe7cf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #cfe7cf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.812, green: 0.906, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.812, green: 0.906, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CFE7CF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCFE7CF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCFE7CF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 231, 207)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(207, 231, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(207, 231, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 207, 231, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8118f, 0.9059f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{207,231,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #cfe7cf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #cfe7cf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2B552B, #D6EBD6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #cfe7cf 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: #F5F9F5;
  --brand-100: #ECF4EC;
  --brand-200: #cfe7cf;
  --brand-300: #B4DAB4;
  --brand-400: #8FC78F;
  --brand-500: #69B469;
  --brand-600: #52A352;
  --brand-700: #448844;
  --brand-800: #366D36;
  --brand-900: #2A502A;
  --brand-950: #1B321B;
  --brand: #cfe7cf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C9E4C9;
  --brand-hover: #B7DBB7;
  --brand-pressed: #9FCF9F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142414;
    --brand-ink: #D6EBD6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5F9F5',
        100: '#ECF4EC',
        200: '#cfe7cf',
        300: '#B4DAB4',
        400: '#8FC78F',
        500: '#69B469',
        600: '#52A352',
        700: '#448844',
        800: '#366D36',
        900: '#2A502A',
        950: '#1B321B',
        DEFAULT: '#cfe7cf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5F9F5,
  '100': #ECF4EC,
  '200': #cfe7cf,
  '300': #B4DAB4,
  '400': #8FC78F,
  '500': #69B469,
  '600': #52A352,
  '700': #448844,
  '800': #366D36,
  '900': #2A502A,
  '950': #1B321B,
);
$brand-base: #cfe7cf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5F9F5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECF4EC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#cfe7cf", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B4DAB4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8FC78F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#69B469", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#52A352", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#448844", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#366D36", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2A502A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1B321B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #cfe7cf · 15.98:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.31:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.98:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #cfe7cf as text scores 1.31:1 on white and 15.98:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2B552B at 6.56:1.

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
#428442 · 4.55:1
AA on white−47% L
#428442
The quick fox
#316231 · 7.19:1
AAA on white−57% L
#316231
The quick fox
#cfe7cf · 15.98:1
AA on blackalready passes
#cfe7cf
The quick fox
#cfe7cf · 15.98:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#cfe7cf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #53A653 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
#cfe7cf on white: 1.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#cfe7cf on black: 15.98:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #cfe7cf as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #cfe7cf.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.31:1AaAa
Slate 501.26:1AaAa
Slate 1001.20:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.13:1AaAa
Slate 4001.95:1AaAa
Slate 5003.62:1AaAa
Slate 6005.77:1AaAa
Slate 7007.88:1AaAa
Slate 80011.13:1AaAa
Slate 90013.59:1AaAa
Black15.98:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E8E2CE
deuteranopia · #E4E0D0
tritanopia · #CDE5E0

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. #cfe7cf 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.

#F5F9F5
#ECF4EC
#cfe7cf
#B4DAB4
#8FC78F
#69B469
#52A352
#448844
#366D36
#2A502A
#1B321B
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F5F9F5Darkest = 950 · #1B321BText 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 0.010 145.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.016 145.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.025 145.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.032 145.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.038 145.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.041 145.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.041 145.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.039 145.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.035 145.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.029 145.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.023 145.2);
}

Colors that work with #cfe7cf

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#F5FAF5
Tinted page background
Border#C9E4C9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4D994D
Captions on the surface
Accent#7A418B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2B552B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF6EE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142414
Dark-mode background
Hover#B7DBB7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#9FCF9F
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DAF0DA
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 #cfe7cf

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #2B552B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #53A653

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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight14/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • 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#E7CFE7
Analogous left#DBE7CF
Analogous right#CFE7DB
Split-complement 1#DBCFE7
Split-complement 2#E7CFDB
Triadic 1#CFCFE7
Triadic 2#E7CFCF
Tetradic#CFDBE7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°120°

#cfe7cf sits at 120°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red81.2%
Green90.6%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
207
0xcf
G · 0–255
231
0xe7
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan10.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.4%
Key (black)9.4%

Total ink coverage is 30%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#cfe7cf text on a black background

contrast 15.98:1

Card sample

#cfe7cf text on a white background

contrast 1.31:1

Card sample

#cfe7cf on grey

1.20:1

#cfe7cf on its own surface

1.24:1

#cfe7cf on its dark surface

12.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #cfe7cf;
Background color
Panel with #cfe7cf background
background-color: #cfe7cf;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #cfe7cf;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(207, 231, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(207, 231, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #cfe7cf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cfe7cf, #CFE7DF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cfe7cf, #CFE7E5);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #cfe7cf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #cfe7cf;
caret-color: #cfe7cf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #cfe7cf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF6EE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #cfe7cf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#cfe7cf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #cfe7cf 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(207, 231, 207, 0.5)
rgb(207 231 207 / 50%)
#cfe7cf80
hsl(120 33% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #cfe7cf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#cfe7cf1a#FAFDFA
20%#cfe7cf33#F5FAF5
40%#cfe7cf66#ECF5EC
60%#cfe7cf99#E2F1E2
80%#cfe7cfcc#D9ECD9

Gradients from #cfe7cf

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, #F1F8F1, #cfe7cf 45%, #2B552B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #cfe7cf, #BBDDD4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cfe7cf, #E7CFE7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F5FAF5 0%, #cfe7cf 45%, #2B552B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF5, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F5F8F1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E3F1EB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2B552B 0%, transparent 65%), #cfe7cf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #cfe7cf

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.

#cfe7cf 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 15.98:1.

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.

#cfe7cf, answered

What color is #cfe7cf?

#cfe7cf is a pale soft green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 7.2). It sits at 120° on the hue wheel with 33% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #cfe7cf?

rgb(207, 231, 207) — 207 red, 231 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 81.2% / 90.6% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #cfe7cf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(120, 33%, 86%) and hsv(120, 10%, 91%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #cfe7cf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7492 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 15.98:1.

Should I use black or white text on #cfe7cf?

Black. It scores 15.98:1 against #cfe7cf, versus 1.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #cfe7cf accessible on a white background?

#cfe7cf on white scores 1.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #428442 to reach 4.5:1, or #316231 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #cfe7cf?

#E7CFE7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DBCFE7 and #E7CFDB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #cfe7cf?

For interface work: #F5FAF5 as the surface, #C9E4C9 for borders, #4D994D for secondary text, #7A418B as an accent and #2B552B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DBE7CF and #CFE7DB stays calm, while #E7CFE7 is the loudest partner.

What is #cfe7cf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(10%, 0%, 10%, 9%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #cfe7cf warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 62 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D8E7CF; nudged cooler, #CEE8D8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #cfe7cf?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 22.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #cfe7cf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #cfe7cf in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#cfe7cf] or text-[#cfe7cf], 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 #cfe7cf with 50% opacity?

rgba(207, 231, 207, 0.5), or #cfe7cf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F3E7; over black, #687468.

Is #cfe7cf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 9.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #cfe7cf 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 moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #cfe7cf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F1F8F1, #cfe7cf 45%, #2B552B). For more colour, a short hue run to #BBDDD4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #cfe7cf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #cfe7cf at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.