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#dbfdbe

a pale, electric green · neutral · closest name: Light Goldenrod Yellow

Token name suggestion: Chalk Moss

RGB
219, 253, 190
HSL
92°, 94%, 87%
CMYK
13, 0, 25, 1
Luminance
0.8903

#dbfdbe is a pale electric green, 92° on the wheel and 51/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.81:1). As text it scores 1.12:1 on white — use #3F8504 instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(92 94% 87%)rgb(219 253 190)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

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

Hex
#dbfdbe
Hue
92°
green
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
93%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8903
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
51/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.81:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 9.7
Chroma
34.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.954
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 19.6
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue92° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool51% 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%
Green79%
Blue4%

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

Every format

HEX#dbfdbe
HEX (8-digit)#dbfdbeff
RGBrgb(219, 253, 190)
RGBArgba(219, 253, 190, 1)
HSLhsl(92, 94%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(92, 25%, 99%)
HWBhwb(92 75% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 25%, 1%)
LABlab(95.6 -21.8 26.6)
LCHlch(95.6 34.4 129.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.954 0.089 131.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(73.63, 89.03, 62.01)
Decimal14417342
Display P3color(display-p3 0.859 0.992 0.745)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dbfdbe;
background-color: #dbfdbe;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dbfdbe;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dbfdbe] bg-[#dbfdbe]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dbfdbe;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.859, green: 0.992, blue: 0.745)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.859, green: 0.992, blue: 0.745, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DBFDBE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDBFDBE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDBFDBE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(190, 253, 219)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(219, 253, 190)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(219, 253, 190)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 219, 253, 190)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8588f, 0.9922f, 0.7451f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{219,253,190}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dbfdbe 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dbfdbe 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3B7C04, #DFEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dbfdbe 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: #F7FDF2;
  --brand-100: #EFFBE4;
  --brand-200: #dbfdbe;
  --brand-300: #C3FC92;
  --brand-400: #A5FA5C;
  --brand-500: #86F825;
  --brand-600: #71ED07;
  --brand-700: #5EC606;
  --brand-800: #4B9E05;
  --brand-900: #397208;
  --brand-950: #244705;
  --brand: #dbfdbe;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D4EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #C8FC9C;
  --brand-pressed: #B5FB79;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DFEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FDF2',
        100: '#EFFBE4',
        200: '#dbfdbe',
        300: '#C3FC92',
        400: '#A5FA5C',
        500: '#86F825',
        600: '#71ED07',
        700: '#5EC606',
        800: '#4B9E05',
        900: '#397208',
        950: '#244705',
        DEFAULT: '#dbfdbe',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FDF2,
  '100': #EFFBE4,
  '200': #dbfdbe,
  '300': #C3FC92,
  '400': #A5FA5C,
  '500': #86F825,
  '600': #71ED07,
  '700': #5EC606,
  '800': #4B9E05,
  '900': #397208,
  '950': #244705,
);
$brand-base: #dbfdbe;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FDF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFFBE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#dbfdbe", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C3FC92", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A5FA5C", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#86F825", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#71ED07", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5EC606", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4B9E05", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#397208", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#244705", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dbfdbe · 18.81:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.12:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.81:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dbfdbe as text scores 1.12:1 on white and 18.81:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3B7C04 at 4.62:1.

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
#3F8504 · 4.60:1
AA on white−60% L
#3F8504
The quick fox
#2F6203 · 7.32:1
AAA on white−67% L
#2F6203
The quick fox
#dbfdbe · 18.81:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dbfdbe
The quick fox
#dbfdbe · 18.81:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dbfdbe

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #50A805 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
#dbfdbe on white: 1.12:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dbfdbe on black: 18.81:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.12:1AaAa
Slate 501.07:1AaAa
Slate 1001.02:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.33:1AaAa
Slate 4002.30:1AaAa
Slate 5004.26:1AaAa
Slate 6006.79:1AaAa
Slate 7009.27:1AaAa
Slate 80013.10:1AaAa
Slate 90015.99:1AaAa
Black18.81:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF4BA
deuteranopia · #FEF1C1
tritanopia · #DDF8EC

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. #dbfdbe 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.

#F7FDF2
#EFFBE4
#dbfdbe
#C3FC92
#A5FA5C
#86F825
#71ED07
#5EC606
#4B9E05
#397208
#244705
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7FDF2Darkest = 950 · #244705Text 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 0.022 131.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.036 131.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.054 131.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.070 131.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.082 131.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.089 131.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.089 131.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.084 131.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.075 131.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.063 131.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.049 131.0);
}

Colors that work with #dbfdbe

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#D4EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#709B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3D03C9
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3B7C04
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1FEE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#C8FC9C
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B5FB79
Two steps down
Disabled#F5F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E6FFD1
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 #dbfdbe

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 #3B7C04
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #50A805

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.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#E0BEFD
Analogous left#FAFDBE
Analogous right#BEFDC1
Split-complement 1#C1BEFD
Split-complement 2#FDBEFA
Triadic 1#BEDBFD
Triadic 2#FDBEDB
Tetradic#BEFAFD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°92°

#dbfdbe sits at 92°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.9%
Green99.2%
Blue74.5%
R · 0–255
219
0xdb
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
190
0xbe

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow24.9%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 39%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dbfdbe text on a black background

contrast 18.81:1

Card sample

#dbfdbe text on a white background

contrast 1.12:1

Card sample

#dbfdbe on grey

1.02:1

#dbfdbe on its own surface

1.06:1

#dbfdbe on its dark surface

14.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(219, 253, 190, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(219, 253, 190, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dbfdbe;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dbfdbe, #BEFDCB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

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

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dbfdbe;
caret-color: #dbfdbe;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dbfdbe;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1FEE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dbfdbe;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dbfdbe 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dbfdbe 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(219, 253, 190, 0.5)
rgb(219 253 190 / 50%)
#dbfdbe80
hsl(92 94% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dbfdbe 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dbfdbe1a#FBFFF9
20%#dbfdbe33#F8FFF2
40%#dbfdbe66#F1FEE5
60%#dbfdbe99#E9FED8
80%#dbfdbecc#E2FDCB

Gradients from #dbfdbe

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, #F4FEEB, #dbfdbe 45%, #3B7C04);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dbfdbe, #A1FCBB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dbfdbe, #E0BEFD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7FFF0 0%, #dbfdbe 45%, #3B7C04 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%, #FFFEF0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DCFEE0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3B7C04 0%, transparent 65%), #dbfdbe;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dbfdbe

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.

#dbfdbe 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

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 18.81:1.

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.

#dbfdbe, answered

What color is #dbfdbe?

#dbfdbe is a pale electric green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 9.7). It sits at 92° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #dbfdbe?

rgb(219, 253, 190) — 219 red, 253 green and 190 blue out of 255, or 85.9% / 99.2% / 74.5% by channel.

What is #dbfdbe in HSL and HSV?

hsl(92, 94%, 87%) and hsv(92, 25%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dbfdbe a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8903 and perceived brightness is 93%, so black text on it reaches 18.81:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dbfdbe?

Black. It scores 18.81:1 against #dbfdbe, versus 1.12:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dbfdbe accessible on a white background?

#dbfdbe on white scores 1.12:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3F8504 to reach 4.5:1, or #2F6203 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dbfdbe?

#E0BEFD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C1BEFD and #FDBEFA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dbfdbe?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D4EDC0 for borders, #709B4B for secondary text, #3D03C9 as an accent and #3B7C04 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FAFDBE and #BEFDC1 stays calm, while #E0BEFD is the loudest partner.

What is #dbfdbe in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 25%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #dbfdbe warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 51 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F2FDBE; nudged cooler, #C4FEBE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dbfdbe?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 19.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dbfdbe as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dbfdbe in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(219, 253, 190, 0.5), or #dbfdbe80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDFEDF; over black, #6E7F5F.

Is #dbfdbe a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dbfdbe 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 #dbfdbe?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4FEEB, #dbfdbe 45%, #3B7C04). For more colour, a short hue run to #A1FCBB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dbfdbe in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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