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#d8e4df

a pale, soft green · cool · closest name: Mint Cream

Token name suggestion: Mist Fern

RGB
216, 228, 223
HSL
155°, 18%, 87%
CMYK
5, 0, 2, 11
Luminance
0.7541

#d8e4df is a pale soft green, 155° on the wheel and 64/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.08:1). As text it scores 1.31:1 on white — use #567C6C instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(155 18% 87%)rgb(216 228 223)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d8e4df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d8e4df
Hue
155°
green
Saturation
18%
soft
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7541
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
64/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
16.08:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 5.8
Chroma
5.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.908
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 24.9
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue155° of 360°
Saturation18%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d8e4df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool64% 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
Red19%
Green74%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#d8e4df
HEX (8-digit)#d8e4dfff
RGBrgb(216, 228, 223)
RGBArgba(216, 228, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(155, 18%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(155, 5%, 89%)
HWBhwb(155 85% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(5%, 0%, 2%, 11%)
LABlab(89.6 -4.9 1.1)
LCHlch(89.6 5.0 168.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.908 0.015 169.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(69.38, 75.41, 80.70)
Decimal14214367
Display P3color(display-p3 0.847 0.894 0.875)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d8e4df;
background-color: #d8e4df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d8e4df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d8e4df] bg-[#d8e4df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d8e4df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.847, green: 0.894, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.894, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D8E4DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD8E4DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD8E4DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 228, 216)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(216, 228, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(216, 228, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 216, 228, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8471f, 0.8941f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{216,228,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d8e4df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d8e4df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#344B42, #DBE6E1);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d8e4df 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: #F6F8F8;
  --brand-100: #EEF2F0;
  --brand-200: #d8e4df;
  --brand-300: #BDD1C9;
  --brand-400: #9CBAAD;
  --brand-500: #7AA392;
  --brand-600: #64917E;
  --brand-700: #537969;
  --brand-800: #436054;
  --brand-900: #33473F;
  --brand-950: #202D27;
  --brand: #d8e4df;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6F9F8;
  --brand-border: #CFDED7;
  --brand-hover: #C3D5CE;
  --brand-pressed: #AEC7BC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #17211D;
    --brand-ink: #DBE6E1;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F8F8',
        100: '#EEF2F0',
        200: '#d8e4df',
        300: '#BDD1C9',
        400: '#9CBAAD',
        500: '#7AA392',
        600: '#64917E',
        700: '#537969',
        800: '#436054',
        900: '#33473F',
        950: '#202D27',
        DEFAULT: '#d8e4df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F8F8,
  '100': #EEF2F0,
  '200': #d8e4df,
  '300': #BDD1C9,
  '400': #9CBAAD,
  '500': #7AA392,
  '600': #64917E,
  '700': #537969,
  '800': #436054,
  '900': #33473F,
  '950': #202D27,
);
$brand-base: #d8e4df;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F8F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEF2F0", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#d8e4df", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BDD1C9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#9CBAAD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#7AA392", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#64917E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#537969", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#436054", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#33473F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#202D27", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d8e4df · 16.08:1
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 · 16.08:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d8e4df as text scores 1.31:1 on white and 16.08:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #344B42 at 7.21:1.

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
#567C6C · 4.67:1
AA on white−46% L
#567C6C
The quick fox
#415E52 · 7.12:1
AAA on white−56% L
#415E52
The quick fox
#d8e4df · 16.08:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d8e4df
The quick fox
#d8e4df · 16.08:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d8e4df

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #729D8B 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
#d8e4df on white: 1.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d8e4df on black: 16.08:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d8e4df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d8e4df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.31:1AaAa
Slate 501.25:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.96:1AaAa
Slate 5003.64:1AaAa
Slate 6005.80:1AaAa
Slate 7007.93:1AaAa
Slate 80011.20:1AaAa
Slate 90013.67:1AaAa
Black16.08:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E3E2DF
deuteranopia · #E1E0DF
tritanopia · #D6E4E2

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. #d8e4df 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.

#F6F8F8
#EEF2F0
#d8e4df
#BDD1C9
#9CBAAD
#7AA392
#64917E
#537969
#436054
#33473F
#202D27
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F6F8F8Darkest = 950 · #202D27Text step on white = 700
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 0.004 169.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.006 169.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.009 169.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.011 169.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.013 169.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.015 169.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.015 169.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.014 169.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.012 169.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.010 169.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.008 169.2);
}

Colors that work with #d8e4df

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#F6F9F8
Tinted page background
Border#CFDED7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5E8876
Captions on the surface
Accent#7C506F
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#344B42
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F0F5F3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#17211D
Dark-mode background
Hover#C3D5CE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#AEC7BC
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E2EFE9
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 #d8e4df

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 #344B42
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #729D8B

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
  • 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#E4D8DD
Analogous left#D8E4D9
Analogous right#D8E3E4
Split-complement 1#E4D8E3
Split-complement 2#E4D9D8
Triadic 1#DFD8E4
Triadic 2#E4DFD8
Tetradic#D9D8E4
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°155°

#d8e4df sits at 155°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.7%
Green89.4%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
216
0xd8
G · 0–255
228
0xe4
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan5.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow2.2%
Key (black)10.6%

Total ink coverage is 18%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d8e4df text on a black background

contrast 16.08:1

Card sample

#d8e4df text on a white background

contrast 1.31:1

Card sample

#d8e4df on grey

1.19:1

#d8e4df on its own surface

1.23:1

#d8e4df on its dark surface

12.65:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d8e4df;
Background color
Panel with #d8e4df background
background-color: #d8e4df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d8e4df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(216, 228, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(216, 228, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d8e4df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d8e4df, #D8E1E4);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8e4df, #D8DEE4);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d8e4df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d8e4df;
caret-color: #d8e4df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d8e4df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F0F5F3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d8e4df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d8e4df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d8e4df 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(216, 228, 223, 0.5)
rgb(216 228 223 / 50%)
#d8e4df80
hsl(155 18% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d8e4df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d8e4df1a#FBFCFC
20%#d8e4df33#F7FAF9
40%#d8e4df66#EFF4F2
60%#d8e4df99#E8EFEC
80%#d8e4dfcc#E0E9E5

Gradients from #d8e4df

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, #F3F7F5, #d8e4df 45%, #344B42);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d8e4df, #C6D2D8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8e4df, #E4D8DD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F6F9F8 0%, #d8e4df 45%, #344B42 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6F9F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F6F9F6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EAF0F1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #344B42 0%, transparent 65%), #d8e4df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d8e4df

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.

#d8e4df 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 16.08:1.

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.

#d8e4df, answered

What color is #d8e4df?

#d8e4df is a pale soft green, closest to Mint Cream (ΔE2000 5.8). It sits at 155° on the hue wheel with 18% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d8e4df?

rgb(216, 228, 223) — 216 red, 228 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 84.7% / 89.4% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #d8e4df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(155, 18%, 87%) and hsv(155, 5%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d8e4df a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7541 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 16.08:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d8e4df?

Black. It scores 16.08:1 against #d8e4df, versus 1.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d8e4df accessible on a white background?

#d8e4df on white scores 1.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #567C6C to reach 4.5:1, or #415E52 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d8e4df?

#E4D8DD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E4D8E3 and #E4D9D8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d8e4df?

For interface work: #F6F9F8 as the surface, #CFDED7 for borders, #5E8876 for secondary text, #7C506F as an accent and #344B42 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D8E4D9 and #D8E3E4 stays calm, while #E4D8DD is the loudest partner.

What is #d8e4df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(5%, 0%, 2%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d8e4df warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 64 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D8E4DB; nudged cooler, #D7E5E4.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d8e4df?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 24.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d8e4df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d8e4df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d8e4df] or text-[#d8e4df], 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 #d8e4df with 50% opacity?

rgba(216, 228, 223, 0.5), or #d8e4df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ECF2EF; over black, #6C7270.

Is #d8e4df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 8.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d8e4df 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 #d8e4df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F3F7F5, #d8e4df 45%, #344B42). For more colour, a short hue run to #C6D2D8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d8e4df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d8e4df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.