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#d8f8dc

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Fern

RGB
216, 248, 220
HSL
128°, 70%, 91%
CMYK
13, 0, 11, 3
Luminance
0.8690

#d8f8dc is a pale vivid green, 128° on the wheel and 66/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.38:1). As text it scores 1.14:1 on white — use #188626 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(128 70% 91%)rgb(216 248 220)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d8f8dc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d8f8dc
Hue
128°
green
Saturation
70%
vivid
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8690
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
66/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.38:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
18.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.949
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 24
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue128° of 360°
Saturation70%
Lightness91%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d8f8dc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool66% 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#d8f8dc
HEX (8-digit)#d8f8dcff
RGBrgb(216, 248, 220)
RGBArgba(216, 248, 220, 1)
HSLhsl(128, 70%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(128, 13%, 97%)
HWBhwb(128 85% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 11%, 3%)
LABlab(94.7 -15.5 10.0)
LCHlch(94.7 18.4 147.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.949 0.050 148.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(74.80, 86.90, 80.53)
Decimal14219484
Display P3color(display-p3 0.847 0.973 0.863)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d8f8dc;
background-color: #d8f8dc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d8f8dc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d8f8dc] bg-[#d8f8dc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d8f8dc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.847, green: 0.973, blue: 0.863)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.973, blue: 0.863, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D8F8DC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD8F8DC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD8F8DC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(220, 248, 216)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(216, 248, 220)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(216, 248, 220)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 216, 248, 220)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8471f, 0.9725f, 0.8627f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{216,248,220}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f8dc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f8dc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#136C1E, #D3EED6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d8f8dc 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: #F3FCF4;
  --brand-100: #d8f8dc;
  --brand-200: #CAF2CF;
  --brand-300: #A0EEAA;
  --brand-400: #70E57F;
  --brand-500: #41DD54;
  --brand-600: #25D03B;
  --brand-700: #1FAD31;
  --brand-800: #198A27;
  --brand-900: #166420;
  --brand-950: #0E3F14;
  --brand: #d8f8dc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC5;
  --brand-hover: #BAF3C1;
  --brand-pressed: #9CEDA6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142416;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF4',
        100: '#d8f8dc',
        200: '#CAF2CF',
        300: '#A0EEAA',
        400: '#70E57F',
        500: '#41DD54',
        600: '#25D03B',
        700: '#1FAD31',
        800: '#198A27',
        900: '#166420',
        950: '#0E3F14',
        DEFAULT: '#d8f8dc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF4,
  '100': #d8f8dc,
  '200': #CAF2CF,
  '300': #A0EEAA,
  '400': #70E57F,
  '500': #41DD54,
  '600': #25D03B,
  '700': #1FAD31,
  '800': #198A27,
  '900': #166420,
  '950': #0E3F14,
);
$brand-base: #d8f8dc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#d8f8dc", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CAF2CF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A0EEAA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#70E57F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#41DD54", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#25D03B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1FAD31", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#198A27", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#166420", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0E3F14", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d8f8dc · 18.38:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.14:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.38:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d8f8dc as text scores 1.14:1 on white and 18.38:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #136C1E at 5.76:1.

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
#188626 · 4.69:1
AA on white−60% L
#188626
The quick fox
#12631C · 7.43:1
AAA on white−68% L
#12631C
The quick fox
#d8f8dc · 18.38:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d8f8dc
The quick fox
#d8f8dc · 18.38:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d8f8dc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1EA930 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
#d8f8dc on white: 1.14:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d8f8dc on black: 18.38:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d8f8dc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d8f8dc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.14:1AaAa
Slate 501.09:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.08:1AaAa
Slate 3001.30:1AaAa
Slate 4002.24:1AaAa
Slate 5004.17:1AaAa
Slate 6006.63:1AaAa
Slate 7009.06:1AaAa
Slate 80012.80:1AaAa
Slate 90015.63:1AaAa
Black18.38:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F9F2DB
deuteranopia · #F3EEDD
tritanopia · #D5F6F0

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. #d8f8dc is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FCF4
#d8f8dc
#CAF2CF
#A0EEAA
#70E57F
#41DD54
#25D03B
#1FAD31
#198A27
#166420
#0E3F14
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF4Darkest = 950 · #0E3F14Text 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 0.013 148.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.020 148.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.030 148.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.039 148.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.046 148.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.050 148.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.050 148.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.047 148.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.042 148.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.035 148.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.028 148.8);
}

Colors that work with #d8f8dc

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#C0EDC5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B55
Captions on the surface
Accent#A01BB1
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#136C1E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FBEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142416
Dark-mode background
Hover#BAF3C1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#9CEDA6
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DAFBDE
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 #d8f8dc

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 #136C1E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #1EA930

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
  • Weight9/100
  • 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#F8D8F4
Analogous left#E4F8D8
Analogous right#D8F8EC
Split-complement 1#ECD8F8
Split-complement 2#F8D8E4
Triadic 1#DCD8F8
Triadic 2#F8DCD8
Tetradic#D8E4F8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°128°

#d8f8dc sits at 128°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.7%
Green97.3%
Blue86.3%
R · 0–255
216
0xd8
G · 0–255
248
0xf8
B · 0–255
220
0xdc

CMYK percentages

Cyan12.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow11.3%
Key (black)2.7%

Total ink coverage is 27%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d8f8dc text on a black background

contrast 18.38:1

Card sample

#d8f8dc text on a white background

contrast 1.14:1

Card sample

#d8f8dc on grey

1.04:1

#d8f8dc on its own surface

1.08:1

#d8f8dc on its dark surface

14.21:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d8f8dc;
Background color
Panel with #d8f8dc background
background-color: #d8f8dc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d8f8dc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(216, 248, 220, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(216, 248, 220, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d8f8dc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d8f8dc, #D8F8F1);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f8dc, #D8F7F8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d8f8dc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d8f8dc;
caret-color: #d8f8dc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d8f8dc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FBEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d8f8dc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d8f8dc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d8f8dc 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, 248, 220, 0.5)
rgb(216 248 220 / 50%)
#d8f8dc80
hsl(128 70% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d8f8dc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d8f8dc1a#FBFEFC
20%#d8f8dc33#F7FEF8
40%#d8f8dc66#EFFCF1
60%#d8f8dc99#E8FBEA
80%#d8f8dccc#E0F9E3

Gradients from #d8f8dc

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, #EEFCEF, #d8f8dc 45%, #136C1E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d8f8dc, #BEF3ED);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f8dc, #F8D8F4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FDF3 0%, #d8f8dc 45%, #136C1E 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F2FDFA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #136C1E 0%, transparent 65%), #d8f8dc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d8f8dc

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.

#d8f8dc 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

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 18.38:1.

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.

#d8f8dc, answered

What color is #d8f8dc?

#d8f8dc is a pale vivid green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 128° on the hue wheel with 70% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d8f8dc?

rgb(216, 248, 220) — 216 red, 248 green and 220 blue out of 255, or 84.7% / 97.3% / 86.3% by channel.

What is #d8f8dc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(128, 70%, 91%) and hsv(128, 13%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d8f8dc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8690 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.38:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d8f8dc?

Black. It scores 18.38:1 against #d8f8dc, versus 1.14:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d8f8dc accessible on a white background?

#d8f8dc on white scores 1.14:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #188626 to reach 4.5:1, or #12631C for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d8f8dc?

#F8D8F4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ECD8F8 and #F8D8E4, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d8f8dc?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC5 for borders, #4B9B55 for secondary text, #A01BB1 as an accent and #136C1E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E4F8D8 and #D8F8EC stays calm, while #F8D8F4 is the loudest partner.

What is #d8f8dc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 11%, 3%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d8f8dc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 66 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E0F8D8; nudged cooler, #D8F8E8.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d8f8dc?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 24 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d8f8dc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d8f8dc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d8f8dc] or text-[#d8f8dc], 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 #d8f8dc with 50% opacity?

rgba(216, 248, 220, 0.5), or #d8f8dc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ECFCEE; over black, #6C7C6E.

Is #d8f8dc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 6.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d8f8dc 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 #d8f8dc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEFCEF, #d8f8dc 45%, #136C1E). For more colour, a short hue run to #BEF3ED keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d8f8dc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d8f8dc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.