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#cfeed2

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Jade

RGB
207, 238, 210
HSL
126°, 48%, 87%
CMYK
13, 0, 12, 7
Luminance
0.7907

#cfeed2 is a pale vivid green, 126° on the wheel and 65/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.81:1). As text it scores 1.25:1 on white — use #2F8537 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(126 48% 87%)rgb(207 238 210)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #cfeed2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#cfeed2
Hue
126°
green
Saturation
48%
vivid
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7907
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
65/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.81:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
18.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.919
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 22.5
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue126° of 360°
Saturation48%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #cfeed2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool65% 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
Red17%
Green77%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#cfeed2
HEX (8-digit)#cfeed2ff
RGBrgb(207, 238, 210)
RGBArgba(207, 238, 210, 1)
HSLhsl(126, 48%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(126, 13%, 93%)
HWBhwb(126 81% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 12%, 7%)
LABlab(91.3 -15.3 10.2)
LCHlch(91.3 18.4 146.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.919 0.050 147.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.94, 79.07, 72.64)
Decimal13627090
Display P3color(display-p3 0.812 0.933 0.824)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #cfeed2;
background-color: #cfeed2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #cfeed2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#cfeed2] bg-[#cfeed2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #cfeed2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.812, green: 0.933, blue: 0.824)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.812, green: 0.933, blue: 0.824, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CFEED2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCFEED2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCFEED2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(210, 238, 207)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(207, 238, 210)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(207, 238, 210)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 207, 238, 210)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8118f, 0.9333f, 0.8235f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{207,238,210}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #cfeed2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #cfeed2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#215E27, #D3EED5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #cfeed2 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: #F5FAF5;
  --brand-100: #EAF5EB;
  --brand-200: #cfeed2;
  --brand-300: #ACE2B1;
  --brand-400: #83D38A;
  --brand-500: #59C464;
  --brand-600: #40B54B;
  --brand-700: #35973F;
  --brand-800: #2B7932;
  --brand-900: #225828;
  --brand-950: #153719;
  --brand: #cfeed2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C3EAC7;
  --brand-hover: #B5E5B9;
  --brand-pressed: #9ADBA1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142415;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF5',
        100: '#EAF5EB',
        200: '#cfeed2',
        300: '#ACE2B1',
        400: '#83D38A',
        500: '#59C464',
        600: '#40B54B',
        700: '#35973F',
        800: '#2B7932',
        900: '#225828',
        950: '#153719',
        DEFAULT: '#cfeed2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF5,
  '100': #EAF5EB,
  '200': #cfeed2,
  '300': #ACE2B1,
  '400': #83D38A,
  '500': #59C464,
  '600': #40B54B,
  '700': #35973F,
  '800': #2B7932,
  '900': #225828,
  '950': #153719,
);
$brand-base: #cfeed2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF5", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5EB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#cfeed2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ACE2B1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#83D38A", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#59C464", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#40B54B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#35973F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2B7932", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#225828", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#153719", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #cfeed2 · 16.81:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.25:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.81:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #cfeed2 as text scores 1.25:1 on white and 16.81:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #215E27 at 6.24:1.

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
#2F8537 · 4.63:1
AA on white−52% L
#2F8537
The quick fox
#236329 · 7.27:1
AAA on white−61% L
#236329
The quick fox
#cfeed2 · 16.81:1
AA on blackalready passes
#cfeed2
The quick fox
#cfeed2 · 16.81:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#cfeed2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3BA745 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
#cfeed2 on white: 1.25:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#cfeed2 on black: 16.81:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #cfeed2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #cfeed2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.25:1AaAa
Slate 501.19:1AaAa
Slate 1001.14:1AaAa
Slate 2001.01:1AaAa
Slate 3001.19:1AaAa
Slate 4002.05:1AaAa
Slate 5003.81:1AaAa
Slate 6006.07:1AaAa
Slate 7008.29:1AaAa
Slate 80011.71:1AaAa
Slate 90014.29:1AaAa
Black16.81:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFE8D1
deuteranopia · #E9E5D3
tritanopia · #CCECE6

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. #cfeed2 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.

#F5FAF5
#EAF5EB
#cfeed2
#ACE2B1
#83D38A
#59C464
#40B54B
#35973F
#2B7932
#225828
#153719
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF5Darkest = 950 · #153719Text 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 0.012 147.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.020 147.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.030 147.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.039 147.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.046 147.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.050 147.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.050 147.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.047 147.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.042 147.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.035 147.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.027 147.9);
}

Colors that work with #cfeed2

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#C3EAC7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B52
Captions on the surface
Accent#8A329A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#215E27
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8ED
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142415
Dark-mode background
Hover#B5E5B9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#9ADBA1
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCF6DE
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 #cfeed2

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 #215E27
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3BA745

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
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#EECFEB
Analogous left#DCEECF
Analogous right#CFEEE2
Split-complement 1#E2CFEE
Split-complement 2#EECFDC
Triadic 1#D2CFEE
Triadic 2#EED2CF
Tetradic#CFDCEE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°126°

#cfeed2 sits at 126°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red81.2%
Green93.3%
Blue82.4%
R · 0–255
207
0xcf
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
210
0xd2

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow11.8%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 32%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#cfeed2 text on a black background

contrast 16.81:1

Card sample

#cfeed2 text on a white background

contrast 1.25:1

Card sample

#cfeed2 on grey

1.14:1

#cfeed2 on its own surface

1.18:1

#cfeed2 on its dark surface

13.00:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #cfeed2;
Background color
Panel with #cfeed2 background
background-color: #cfeed2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #cfeed2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(207, 238, 210, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(207, 238, 210, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #cfeed2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cfeed2, #CFEEE7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cfeed2, #CFEEEE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #cfeed2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #cfeed2;
caret-color: #cfeed2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #cfeed2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8ED;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #cfeed2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#cfeed2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #cfeed2 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, 238, 210, 0.5)
rgb(207 238 210 / 50%)
#cfeed280
hsl(126 48% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #cfeed2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#cfeed21a#FAFDFB
20%#cfeed233#F5FCF6
40%#cfeed266#ECF8ED
60%#cfeed299#E2F5E4
80%#cfeed2cc#D9F1DB

Gradients from #cfeed2

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, #F0FAF1, #cfeed2 45%, #215E27);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #cfeed2, #B9E6DF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cfeed2, #EECFEB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FBF4 0%, #cfeed2 45%, #215E27 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%, #F8FBF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E6F6F1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #215E27 0%, transparent 65%), #cfeed2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #cfeed2

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.

#cfeed2 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 16.81:1.

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.

#cfeed2, answered

What color is #cfeed2?

#cfeed2 is a pale vivid green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 126° on the hue wheel with 48% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #cfeed2?

rgb(207, 238, 210) — 207 red, 238 green and 210 blue out of 255, or 81.2% / 93.3% / 82.4% by channel.

What is #cfeed2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(126, 48%, 87%) and hsv(126, 13%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #cfeed2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7907 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 16.81:1.

Should I use black or white text on #cfeed2?

Black. It scores 16.81:1 against #cfeed2, versus 1.25:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #cfeed2 accessible on a white background?

#cfeed2 on white scores 1.25:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2F8537 to reach 4.5:1, or #236329 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #cfeed2?

#EECFEB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E2CFEE and #EECFDC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #cfeed2?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C3EAC7 for borders, #4B9B52 for secondary text, #8A329A as an accent and #215E27 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DCEECF and #CFEEE2 stays calm, while #EECFEB is the loudest partner.

What is #cfeed2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 12%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #cfeed2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 65 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D8EECF; nudged cooler, #CFEFDD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #cfeed2?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 22.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #cfeed2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #cfeed2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#cfeed2] or text-[#cfeed2], 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 #cfeed2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(207, 238, 210, 0.5), or #cfeed280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F7E9; over black, #687769.

Is #cfeed2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 7.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #cfeed2 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 #cfeed2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0FAF1, #cfeed2 45%, #215E27). For more colour, a short hue run to #B9E6DF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #cfeed2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #cfeed2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.