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#dffacb

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Jade

RGB
223, 250, 203
HSL
95°, 83%, 89%
CMYK
11, 0, 19, 2
Luminance
0.8837

#dffacb is a pale electric green, 95° on the wheel and 52/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.67:1). As text it scores 1.12:1 on white — use #40860D instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(95 83% 89%)rgb(223 250 203)Base step 200AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

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

Hex
#dffacb
Hue
95°
green
Saturation
83%
electric
Lightness
89%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
93%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8837
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
52/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.67:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
26.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.954
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 21.8
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue95° of 360°
Saturation83%
Lightness89%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool52% 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
Red18%
Green77%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#dffacb
HEX (8-digit)#dffacbff
RGBrgb(223, 250, 203)
RGBArgba(223, 250, 203, 1)
HSLhsl(95, 83%, 89%)
HSV / HSBhsv(94, 19%, 98%)
HWBhwb(95 80% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 0%, 19%, 2%)
LABlab(95.3 -17.0 19.7)
LCHlch(95.3 26.0 130.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.954 0.068 132.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(75.39, 88.37, 69.57)
Decimal14678731
Display P3color(display-p3 0.875 0.980 0.796)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dffacb;
background-color: #dffacb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dffacb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dffacb] bg-[#dffacb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dffacb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.875, green: 0.980, blue: 0.796)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.875, green: 0.980, blue: 0.796, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DFFACB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDFFACB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDFFACB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(203, 250, 223)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(223, 250, 203)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(223, 250, 203)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 223, 250, 203)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8745f, 0.9804f, 0.7961f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{223,250,203}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dffacb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dffacb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#38740B, #DEEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dffacb 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: #F7FCF2;
  --brand-100: #EEFAE6;
  --brand-200: #dffacb;
  --brand-300: #C0F599;
  --brand-400: #A0F065;
  --brand-500: #81EB32;
  --brand-600: #6BDF15;
  --brand-700: #59BA12;
  --brand-800: #48950E;
  --brand-900: #366C0F;
  --brand-950: #224309;
  --brand: #dffacb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7FAF4;
  --brand-border: #D3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #CBF7AA;
  --brand-pressed: #B7F48A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1B2414;
    --brand-ink: #DEEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7FCF2',
        100: '#EEFAE6',
        200: '#dffacb',
        300: '#C0F599',
        400: '#A0F065',
        500: '#81EB32',
        600: '#6BDF15',
        700: '#59BA12',
        800: '#48950E',
        900: '#366C0F',
        950: '#224309',
        DEFAULT: '#dffacb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7FCF2,
  '100': #EEFAE6,
  '200': #dffacb,
  '300': #C0F599,
  '400': #A0F065,
  '500': #81EB32,
  '600': #6BDF15,
  '700': #59BA12,
  '800': #48950E,
  '900': #366C0F,
  '950': #224309,
);
$brand-base: #dffacb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7FCF2", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EEFAE6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#dffacb", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C0F599", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A0F065", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#81EB32", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#6BDF15", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#59BA12", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#48950E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#366C0F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#224309", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dffacb · 18.67:1
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 · 18.67:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dffacb as text scores 1.12:1 on white and 18.67:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #38740B at 5.09:1.

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
#40860D · 4.53:1
AA on white−60% L
#40860D
The quick fox
#31650A · 7.01:1
AAA on white−67% L
#31650A
The quick fox
#dffacb · 18.67:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dffacb
The quick fox
#dffacb · 18.67:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dffacb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #50A710 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
#dffacb on white: 1.12:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dffacb on black: 18.67:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.12:1AaAa
Slate 501.07:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.32:1AaAa
Slate 4002.28:1AaAa
Slate 5004.23:1AaAa
Slate 6006.74:1AaAa
Slate 7009.21:1AaAa
Slate 80013.01:1AaAa
Slate 90015.88:1AaAa
Black18.67:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF3C8
deuteranopia · #FAF1CD
tritanopia · #E0F6ED

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. #dffacb 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.

#F7FCF2
#EEFAE6
#dffacb
#C0F599
#A0F065
#81EB32
#6BDF15
#59BA12
#48950E
#366C0F
#224309
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7FCF2Darkest = 950 · #224309Text 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 0.017 132.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 132.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.041 132.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.053 132.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.062 132.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.068 132.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.068 132.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.064 132.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.057 132.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.048 132.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.037 132.0);
}

Colors that work with #dffacb

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#D3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6D9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#480EBE
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#38740B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1FDE8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1B2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#CBF7AA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B7F48A
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E8FDD8
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #dffacb

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 #38740B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #50A710

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
  • Weight11/100
  • 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#E6CBFA
Analogous left#F6FACB
Analogous right#CBFACE
Split-complement 1#CECBFA
Split-complement 2#FACBF6
Triadic 1#CBDFFA
Triadic 2#FACBDF
Tetradic#CBF6FA
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°95°

#dffacb sits at 95°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red87.5%
Green98.0%
Blue79.6%
R · 0–255
223
0xdf
G · 0–255
250
0xfa
B · 0–255
203
0xcb

CMYK percentages

Cyan10.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow18.8%
Key (black)2.0%

Total ink coverage is 32%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#dffacb text on a black background

contrast 18.67:1

Card sample

#dffacb text on a white background

contrast 1.12:1

Card sample

#dffacb on grey

1.03:1

#dffacb on its own surface

1.07:1

#dffacb on its dark surface

14.27:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(223, 250, 203, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(223, 250, 203, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dffacb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dffacb, #CBFAD6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dffacb, #CBFAE2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dffacb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dffacb;
caret-color: #dffacb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dffacb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1FDE8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dffacb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dffacb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dffacb 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(223, 250, 203, 0.5)
rgb(223 250 203 / 50%)
#dffacb80
hsl(95 83% 89% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dffacb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dffacb1a#FCFFFA
20%#dffacb33#F9FEF5
40%#dffacb66#F2FDEA
60%#dffacb99#ECFCE0
80%#dffacbcc#E5FBD5

Gradients from #dffacb

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, #F4FDEC, #dffacb 45%, #38740B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dffacb, #AFF7C6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dffacb, #E6CBFA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F6FEF1 0%, #dffacb 45%, #38740B 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%, #FEFEF9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E7FDEA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #38740B 0%, transparent 65%), #dffacb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dffacb

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.

#dffacb 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 18.67:1.

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.

#dffacb, answered

What color is #dffacb?

#dffacb is a pale electric green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 95° on the hue wheel with 83% saturation and 89% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #dffacb?

rgb(223, 250, 203) — 223 red, 250 green and 203 blue out of 255, or 87.5% / 98% / 79.6% by channel.

What is #dffacb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(95, 83%, 89%) and hsv(94, 19%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dffacb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8837 and perceived brightness is 93%, so black text on it reaches 18.67:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dffacb?

Black. It scores 18.67:1 against #dffacb, versus 1.12:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dffacb accessible on a white background?

#dffacb on white scores 1.12:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #40860D to reach 4.5:1, or #31650A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dffacb?

#E6CBFA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CECBFA and #FACBF6, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dffacb?

For interface work: #F7FAF4 as the surface, #D3EDC0 for borders, #6D9B4B for secondary text, #480EBE as an accent and #38740B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F6FACB and #CBFACE stays calm, while #E6CBFA is the loudest partner.

What is #dffacb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 0%, 19%, 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 #dffacb warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 52 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F0FACB; nudged cooler, #CDFBCA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dffacb?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 21.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dffacb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dffacb in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(223, 250, 203, 0.5), or #dffacb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EFFDE5; over black, #707D66.

Is #dffacb 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 #dffacb 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 #dffacb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F4FDEC, #dffacb 45%, #38740B). For more colour, a short hue run to #AFF7C6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dffacb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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