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#dcfd67

a light, electric green · warm · closest name: Green Yellow

Token name suggestion: Meadow Moss

RGB
220, 253, 103
HSL
73°, 97%, 70%
CMYK
13, 0, 59, 1
Luminance
0.8645

#dcfd67 is a light electric green, 73° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.29:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #627D02 instead. Nearest name is Green Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(73 97% 70%)rgb(220 253 103)Base step 400AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dcfd67 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dcfd67
Hue
73°
green
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
70%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8645
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.29:1
Closest name
Green Yellow
ΔE2000 7
Chroma
73.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.942
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 14.1
Web-safe
#CCFF66
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue73° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness70%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dcfd67.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% cool

Reads warm. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red18%
Green81%
Blue1%

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

Every format

HEX#dcfd67
HEX (8-digit)#dcfd67ff
RGBrgb(220, 253, 103)
RGBArgba(220, 253, 103, 1)
HSLhsl(73, 97%, 70%)
HSV / HSBhsv(73, 59%, 99%)
HWBhwb(73 40% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 59%, 1%)
LABlab(94.5 -31.1 66.5)
LCHlch(94.5 73.4 115.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.942 0.178 120.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.09, 86.45, 25.98)
Decimal14482791
Display P3color(display-p3 0.863 0.992 0.404)
Web-safe#CCFF66

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dcfd67;
background-color: #dcfd67;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dcfd67;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dcfd67] bg-[#dcfd67]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dcfd67;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.863, green: 0.992, blue: 0.404)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.863, green: 0.992, blue: 0.404, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DCFD67</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDCFD67)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDCFD67)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(103, 253, 220)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(220, 253, 103)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(220, 253, 103)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 220, 253, 103)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8627f, 0.9922f, 0.4039f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{220,253,103}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dcfd67 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dcfd67 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#637E02, #E8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dcfd67 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: #FBFDF1;
  --brand-100: #F7FCE4;
  --brand-200: #EEFBC1;
  --brand-300: #E5FE90;
  --brand-400: #dcfd67;
  --brand-500: #CCFC22;
  --brand-600: #BDF203;
  --brand-700: #9EC903;
  --brand-800: #7EA102;
  --brand-900: #5C7406;
  --brand-950: #394904;
  --brand: #dcfd67;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #D4FD44;
  --brand-pressed: #CCFC21;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBFDF1',
        100: '#F7FCE4',
        200: '#EEFBC1',
        300: '#E5FE90',
        400: '#dcfd67',
        500: '#CCFC22',
        600: '#BDF203',
        700: '#9EC903',
        800: '#7EA102',
        900: '#5C7406',
        950: '#394904',
        DEFAULT: '#dcfd67',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBFDF1,
  '100': #F7FCE4,
  '200': #EEFBC1,
  '300': #E5FE90,
  '400': #dcfd67,
  '500': #CCFC22,
  '600': #BDF203,
  '700': #9EC903,
  '800': #7EA102,
  '900': #5C7406,
  '950': #394904,
);
$brand-base: #dcfd67;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBFDF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7FCE4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#EEFBC1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E5FE90", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#dcfd67", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CCFC22", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#BDF203", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#9EC903", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#7EA102", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5C7406", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#394904", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dcfd67 · 18.29:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.29:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dcfd67 as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.29:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #637E02 at 4.05:1.

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
#627D02 · 4.72:1
AA on white−45% L
#627D02
The quick fox
#4A5F01 · 7.17:1
AAA on white−51% L
#4A5F01
The quick fox
#dcfd67 · 18.29:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dcfd67
The quick fox
#dcfd67 · 18.29:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dcfd67

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7DA002 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
#dcfd67 on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dcfd67 on black: 18.29:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dcfd67 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dcfd67.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.14:1AaAa
Slate 6006.60:1AaAa
Slate 7009.02:1AaAa
Slate 80012.74:1AaAa
Slate 90015.55:1AaAa
Black18.29:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF056
deuteranopia · #FFF071
tritanopia · #E7F1DD

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. #dcfd67 is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#FBFDF1
#F7FCE4
#EEFBC1
#E5FE90
#dcfd67
#CCFC22
#BDF203
#9EC903
#7EA102
#5C7406
#394904
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #FBFDF1Darkest = 950 · #394904Text 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 0.044 120.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.071 120.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.107 120.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.139 120.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.163 120.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.178 120.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.178 120.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.167 120.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.149 120.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.124 120.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.098 120.4);
}

Colors that work with #dcfd67

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#899B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#656AFF
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#637E02
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F9FFE6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#D4FD44
One step down in lightness
Pressed#CCFC21
Two steps down
Disabled#EDEFE5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E2FF79
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 #dcfd67

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 #637E02
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7DA002

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

Red/green pairs are the most common colour-blindness failure — never let the two carry meaning alone.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight30/100
  • TemperatureWarm
  • ApproachabilityHigh

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#8867FD
Analogous left#FDD367
Analogous right#91FD67
Split-complement 1#6791FD
Split-complement 2#D367FD
Triadic 1#67DCFD
Triadic 2#FD67DC
Tetradic#67FDD3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°73°

#dcfd67 sits at 73°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red86.3%
Green99.2%
Blue40.4%
R · 0–255
220
0xdc
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
103
0x67

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow59.3%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 73%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dcfd67 text on a black background

contrast 18.29:1

Card sample

#dcfd67 text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#dcfd67 on grey

1.05:1

#dcfd67 on its own surface

1.09:1

#dcfd67 on its dark surface

13.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dcfd67;
Background color
Panel with #dcfd67 background
background-color: #dcfd67;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dcfd67;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(220, 253, 103, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(220, 253, 103, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dcfd67;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dcfd67, #78FD67);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dcfd67, #67FD7B);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dcfd67;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dcfd67;
caret-color: #dcfd67;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dcfd67;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F9FFE6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dcfd67;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dcfd67 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dcfd67 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(220, 253, 103, 0.5)
rgb(220 253 103 / 50%)
#dcfd6780
hsl(73 97% 70% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dcfd67 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dcfd671a#FCFFF0
20%#dcfd6733#F8FFE1
40%#dcfd6766#F1FEC2
60%#dcfd6799#EAFEA4
80%#dcfd67cc#E3FD85

Gradients from #dcfd67

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, #EAFEA3, #dcfd67 45%, #637E02);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dcfd67, #4EFD49);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dcfd67, #8867FD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEC2 0%, #dcfd67 45%, #637E02 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FED999 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #9DFD85 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #637E02 0%, transparent 65%), #dcfd67;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dcfd67

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.

#dcfd67 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 18.29:1.

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.

#dcfd67, answered

What color is #dcfd67?

#dcfd67 is a light electric green, closest to Green Yellow (ΔE2000 7). It sits at 73° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 70% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #dcfd67?

rgb(220, 253, 103) — 220 red, 253 green and 103 blue out of 255, or 86.3% / 99.2% / 40.4% by channel.

What is #dcfd67 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(73, 97%, 70%) and hsv(73, 59%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dcfd67 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8645 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 18.29:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dcfd67?

Black. It scores 18.29:1 against #dcfd67, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dcfd67 accessible on a white background?

#dcfd67 on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #627D02 to reach 4.5:1, or #4A5F01 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dcfd67?

#8867FD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #6791FD and #D367FD, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dcfd67?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E3EDC0 for borders, #899B4B for secondary text, #656AFF as an accent and #637E02 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FDD367 and #91FD67 stays calm, while #8867FD is the loudest partner.

What is #dcfd67 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 59%, 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 #dcfd67 warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FDE767; nudged cooler, #A5FF65.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dcfd67?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 14.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dcfd67 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dcfd67 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dcfd67] or text-[#dcfd67], 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 #dcfd67 with 50% opacity?

rgba(220, 253, 103, 0.5), or #dcfd6780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EEFEB3; over black, #6E7F34.

Is #dcfd67 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFF66, ΔE2000 3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dcfd67 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 #dcfd67?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EAFEA3, #dcfd67 45%, #637E02). For more colour, a short hue run to #4EFD49 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dcfd67 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dcfd67 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.