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#ddfbe2

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Basil

RGB
221, 251, 226
HSL
130°, 79%, 93%
CMYK
12, 0, 10, 2
Luminance
0.8986

#ddfbe2 is a pale electric green, 130° on the wheel and 67/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.97:1). As text it scores 1.11:1 on white — use #108724 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(130 79% 93%)rgb(221 251 226)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ddfbe2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ddfbe2
Hue
130°
green
Saturation
79%
electric
Lightness
93%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8986
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
67/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.97:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 6
Chroma
16.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.960
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 24.6
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue130° of 360°
Saturation79%
Lightness93%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ddfbe2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool67% 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#ddfbe2
HEX (8-digit)#ddfbe2ff
RGBrgb(221, 251, 226)
RGBArgba(221, 251, 226, 1)
HSLhsl(130, 79%, 93%)
HSV / HSBhsv(130, 12%, 98%)
HWBhwb(130 87% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(12%, 0%, 10%, 2%)
LABlab(95.9 -14.3 8.7)
LCHlch(95.9 16.7 148.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.960 0.046 150.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(78.04, 89.86, 85.17)
Decimal14547938
Display P3color(display-p3 0.867 0.984 0.886)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ddfbe2;
background-color: #ddfbe2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ddfbe2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ddfbe2] bg-[#ddfbe2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ddfbe2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.867, green: 0.984, blue: 0.886)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.867, green: 0.984, blue: 0.886, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DDFBE2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDDFBE2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDDFBE2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(226, 251, 221)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(221, 251, 226)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(221, 251, 226)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 221, 251, 226)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8667f, 0.9843f, 0.8863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{221,251,226}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ddfbe2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ddfbe2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0D721E, #D3EED7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ddfbe2 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: #ddfbe2;
  --brand-200: #C7F5CF;
  --brand-300: #9BF3A9;
  --brand-400: #68ED7F;
  --brand-500: #36E754;
  --brand-600: #1ADB3A;
  --brand-700: #16B630;
  --brand-800: #119227;
  --brand-900: #116A20;
  --brand-950: #0A4214;
  --brand: #ddfbe2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF5;
  --brand-border: #C0EDC7;
  --brand-hover: #BDF7C7;
  --brand-pressed: #9DF3AB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142416;
    --brand-ink: #D3EED7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCF4',
        100: '#ddfbe2',
        200: '#C7F5CF',
        300: '#9BF3A9',
        400: '#68ED7F',
        500: '#36E754',
        600: '#1ADB3A',
        700: '#16B630',
        800: '#119227',
        900: '#116A20',
        950: '#0A4214',
        DEFAULT: '#ddfbe2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCF4,
  '100': #ddfbe2,
  '200': #C7F5CF,
  '300': #9BF3A9,
  '400': #68ED7F,
  '500': #36E754,
  '600': #1ADB3A,
  '700': #16B630,
  '800': #119227,
  '900': #116A20,
  '950': #0A4214,
);
$brand-base: #ddfbe2;
$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": "#ddfbe2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C7F5CF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9BF3A9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#68ED7F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#36E754", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1ADB3A", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#16B630", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#119227", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#116A20", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0A4214", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ddfbe2 · 18.97:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.11:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.97:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ddfbe2 as text scores 1.11:1 on white and 18.97:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0D721E at 5.51:1.

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
#108724 · 4.65:1
AA on white−63% L
#108724
The quick fox
#0C671B · 7.07:1
AAA on white−70% L
#0C671B
The quick fox
#ddfbe2 · 18.97:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ddfbe2
The quick fox
#ddfbe2 · 18.97:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ddfbe2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #14AB2D 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
#ddfbe2 on white: 1.11:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ddfbe2 on black: 18.97:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ddfbe2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ddfbe2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.11:1AaAa
Slate 501.06:1AaAa
Slate 1001.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.11:1AaAa
Slate 3001.34:1AaAa
Slate 4002.32:1AaAa
Slate 5004.30:1AaAa
Slate 6006.85:1AaAa
Slate 7009.35:1AaAa
Slate 80013.22:1AaAa
Slate 90016.13:1AaAa
Black18.97:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FCF5E1
deuteranopia · #F6F2E3
tritanopia · #DAFAF4

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. #ddfbe2 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
#ddfbe2
#C7F5CF
#9BF3A9
#68ED7F
#36E754
#1ADB3A
#16B630
#119227
#116A20
#0A4214
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F3FCF4Darkest = 950 · #0A4214Text 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 0.011 150.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.018 150.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.027 150.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.036 150.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.042 150.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.046 150.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.046 150.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.043 150.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.038 150.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.032 150.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.025 150.2);
}

Colors that work with #ddfbe2

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#C0EDC7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B58
Captions on the surface
Accent#AC10BC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0D721E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FCEC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142416
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDF7C7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#9DF3AB
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D8FDDF
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #ddfbe2

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 #0D721E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #14AB2D

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
  • Weight8/100
  • 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#FBDDF6
Analogous left#E7FBDD
Analogous right#DDFBF1
Split-complement 1#F1DDFB
Split-complement 2#FBDDE7
Triadic 1#E2DDFB
Triadic 2#FBE2DD
Tetradic#DDE7FB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°130°

#ddfbe2 sits at 130°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red86.7%
Green98.4%
Blue88.6%
R · 0–255
221
0xdd
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
226
0xe2

CMYK percentages

Cyan12.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.0%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 24%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ddfbe2 text on a black background

contrast 18.97:1

Card sample

#ddfbe2 text on a white background

contrast 1.11:1

Card sample

#ddfbe2 on grey

1.01:1

#ddfbe2 on its own surface

1.05:1

#ddfbe2 on its dark surface

14.66:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ddfbe2;
Background color
Panel with #ddfbe2 background
background-color: #ddfbe2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ddfbe2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(221, 251, 226, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(221, 251, 226, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ddfbe2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ddfbe2, #DDFBF6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ddfbe2, #DDF8FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ddfbe2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ddfbe2;
caret-color: #ddfbe2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ddfbe2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FCEC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ddfbe2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ddfbe2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ddfbe2 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(221, 251, 226, 0.5)
rgb(221 251 226 / 50%)
#ddfbe280
hsl(130 79% 93% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ddfbe2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ddfbe21a#FCFFFC
20%#ddfbe233#F8FEF9
40%#ddfbe266#F1FDF3
60%#ddfbe299#EBFDEE
80%#ddfbe2cc#E4FCE8

Gradients from #ddfbe2

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, #EDFDEF, #ddfbe2 45%, #0D721E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ddfbe2, #C1F8F3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ddfbe2, #FBDDF6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FDF3 0%, #ddfbe2 45%, #0D721E 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%, #F8FEFD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0D721E 0%, transparent 65%), #ddfbe2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ddfbe2

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.

#ddfbe2 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 18.97:1.

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.

#ddfbe2, answered

What color is #ddfbe2?

#ddfbe2 is a pale electric green, closest to Honey Dew (ΔE2000 6). It sits at 130° on the hue wheel with 79% saturation and 93% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ddfbe2?

rgb(221, 251, 226) — 221 red, 251 green and 226 blue out of 255, or 86.7% / 98.4% / 88.6% by channel.

What is #ddfbe2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(130, 79%, 93%) and hsv(130, 12%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ddfbe2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8986 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 18.97:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ddfbe2?

Black. It scores 18.97:1 against #ddfbe2, versus 1.11:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ddfbe2 accessible on a white background?

#ddfbe2 on white scores 1.11:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #108724 to reach 4.5:1, or #0C671B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ddfbe2?

#FBDDF6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F1DDFB and #FBDDE7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ddfbe2?

For interface work: #F4FAF5 as the surface, #C0EDC7 for borders, #4B9B58 for secondary text, #AC10BC as an accent and #0D721E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E7FBDD and #DDFBF1 stays calm, while #FBDDF6 is the loudest partner.

What is #ddfbe2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(12%, 0%, 10%, 2%). 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 #ddfbe2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 67 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E3FBDD; nudged cooler, #DCFBED.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ddfbe2?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 24.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ddfbe2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ddfbe2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ddfbe2] or text-[#ddfbe2], 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 #ddfbe2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(221, 251, 226, 0.5), or #ddfbe280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EEFDF1; over black, #6F7E71.

Is #ddfbe2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 7.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ddfbe2 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 #ddfbe2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EDFDEF, #ddfbe2 45%, #0D721E). For more colour, a short hue run to #C1F8F3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ddfbe2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ddfbe2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.