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#e6f2cd

a pale, vivid green · warm · closest name: Light Goldenrod Yellow

Token name suggestion: Frost Jade

RGB
230, 242, 205
HSL
80°, 59%, 88%
CMYK
5, 0, 15, 5
Luminance
0.8474

#e6f2cd is a pale vivid green, 80° on the wheel and 41/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.95:1). As text it scores 1.17:1 on white — use #618021 instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 59% 88%)rgb(230 242 205)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e6f2cd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e6f2cd
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
59%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8474
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
41/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
17.95:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 4.7
Chroma
19.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.943
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 23.3
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation59%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e6f2cd.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool41% 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
Red20%
Green75%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#e6f2cd
HEX (8-digit)#e6f2cdff
RGBrgb(230, 242, 205)
RGBArgba(230, 242, 205, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 59%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(79, 15%, 95%)
HWBhwb(80 80% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(5%, 0%, 15%, 5%)
LABlab(93.8 -10.3 16.5)
LCHlch(93.8 19.5 121.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.943 0.050 122.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(75.40, 84.74, 70.13)
Decimal15135437
Display P3color(display-p3 0.902 0.949 0.804)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e6f2cd;
background-color: #e6f2cd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e6f2cd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e6f2cd] bg-[#e6f2cd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e6f2cd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.902, green: 0.949, blue: 0.804)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.902, green: 0.949, blue: 0.804, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E6F2CD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE6F2CD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE6F2CD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(205, 242, 230)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(230, 242, 205)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(230, 242, 205)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 230, 242, 205)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9020f, 0.9490f, 0.8039f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{230,242,205}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e6f2cd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e6f2cd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#4D651A, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e6f2cd 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: #F9FBF4;
  --brand-100: #F2F7E9;
  --brand-200: #e6f2cd;
  --brand-300: #D2E8A6;
  --brand-400: #BCDC79;
  --brand-500: #A6D14D;
  --brand-600: #94C233;
  --brand-700: #7BA22A;
  --brand-800: #628122;
  --brand-900: #495E1C;
  --brand-950: #2D3B12;
  --brand: #e6f2cd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #D8EBB0;
  --brand-pressed: #CAE394;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F9FBF4',
        100: '#F2F7E9',
        200: '#e6f2cd',
        300: '#D2E8A6',
        400: '#BCDC79',
        500: '#A6D14D',
        600: '#94C233',
        700: '#7BA22A',
        800: '#628122',
        900: '#495E1C',
        950: '#2D3B12',
        DEFAULT: '#e6f2cd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F9FBF4,
  '100': #F2F7E9,
  '200': #e6f2cd,
  '300': #D2E8A6,
  '400': #BCDC79,
  '500': #A6D14D,
  '600': #94C233,
  '700': #7BA22A,
  '800': #628122,
  '900': #495E1C,
  '950': #2D3B12,
);
$brand-base: #e6f2cd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F9FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F2F7E9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#e6f2cd", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D2E8A6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#BCDC79", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#A6D14D", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#94C233", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#7BA22A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#628122", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#495E1C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#2D3B12", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e6f2cd · 17.95:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.17:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.95:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #e6f2cd as text scores 1.17:1 on white and 17.95:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #4D651A at 5.62:1.

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
#618021 · 4.55:1
AA on white−56% L
#618021
The quick fox
#496019 · 7.07:1
AAA on white−64% L
#496019
The quick fox
#e6f2cd · 17.95:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e6f2cd
The quick fox
#e6f2cd · 17.95:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#e6f2cd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7AA02A 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
#e6f2cd on white: 1.17:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e6f2cd on black: 17.95:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e6f2cd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e6f2cd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.17:1AaAa
Slate 501.12:1AaAa
Slate 1001.07:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.27:1AaAa
Slate 4002.19:1AaAa
Slate 5004.07:1AaAa
Slate 6006.48:1AaAa
Slate 7008.85:1AaAa
Slate 80012.50:1AaAa
Slate 90015.26:1AaAa
Black17.95:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F7EDCB
deuteranopia · #F5EDCE
tritanopia · #E9EEE8

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. #e6f2cd 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.

#F9FBF4
#F2F7E9
#e6f2cd
#D2E8A6
#BCDC79
#A6D14D
#94C233
#7BA22A
#628122
#495E1C
#2D3B12
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F9FBF4Darkest = 950 · #2D3B12Text 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 0.013 122.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.020 122.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.030 122.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.039 122.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.046 122.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.050 122.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.050 122.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.047 122.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.042 122.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.035 122.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.028 122.0);
}

Colors that work with #e6f2cd

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#F8FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#DEEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#819B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#3127A5
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#4D651A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F5FAEB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#D8EBB0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#CAE394
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#EFF8DB
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 #e6f2cd

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 #4D651A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7AA02A

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#D9CDF2
Analogous left#F2EBCD
Analogous right#D3F2CD
Split-complement 1#CDD3F2
Split-complement 2#EBCDF2
Triadic 1#CDE6F2
Triadic 2#F2CDE6
Tetradic#CDF2EB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#e6f2cd sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red90.2%
Green94.9%
Blue80.4%
R · 0–255
230
0xe6
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
205
0xcd

CMYK percentages

Cyan5.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow15.3%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 25%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e6f2cd text on a black background

contrast 17.95:1

Card sample

#e6f2cd text on a white background

contrast 1.17:1

Card sample

#e6f2cd on grey

1.07:1

#e6f2cd on its own surface

1.11:1

#e6f2cd on its dark surface

13.59:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e6f2cd;
Background color
Panel with #e6f2cd background
background-color: #e6f2cd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e6f2cd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(230, 242, 205, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(230, 242, 205, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e6f2cd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e6f2cd, #CDF2CD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e6f2cd, #CDF2D6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e6f2cd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e6f2cd;
caret-color: #e6f2cd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e6f2cd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F5FAEB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e6f2cd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e6f2cd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e6f2cd 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(230, 242, 205, 0.5)
rgb(230 242 205 / 50%)
#e6f2cd80
hsl(80 59% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e6f2cd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e6f2cd1a#FDFEFA
20%#e6f2cd33#FAFCF5
40%#e6f2cd66#F5FAEB
60%#e6f2cd99#F0F7E1
80%#e6f2cdcc#EBF5D7

Gradients from #e6f2cd

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, #F7FBEF, #e6f2cd 45%, #4D651A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e6f2cd, #B5ECB9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e6f2cd, #D9CDF2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F9FCF3 0%, #e6f2cd 45%, #4D651A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F8FAF4, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FCFBF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E7F8E5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #4D651A 0%, transparent 65%), #e6f2cd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e6f2cd

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.

#e6f2cd 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

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 17.95:1.

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.

#e6f2cd, answered

What color is #e6f2cd?

#e6f2cd is a pale vivid green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 4.7). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 59% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #e6f2cd?

rgb(230, 242, 205) — 230 red, 242 green and 205 blue out of 255, or 90.2% / 94.9% / 80.4% by channel.

What is #e6f2cd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 59%, 88%) and hsv(79, 15%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e6f2cd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8474 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 17.95:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e6f2cd?

Black. It scores 17.95:1 against #e6f2cd, versus 1.17:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #e6f2cd accessible on a white background?

#e6f2cd on white scores 1.17:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #618021 to reach 4.5:1, or #496019 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e6f2cd?

#D9CDF2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CDD3F2 and #EBCDF2, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e6f2cd?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #819B4B for secondary text, #3127A5 as an accent and #4D651A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F2EBCD and #D3F2CD stays calm, while #D9CDF2 is the loudest partner.

What is #e6f2cd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(5%, 0%, 15%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #e6f2cd warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 41 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F2F0CD; nudged cooler, #D8F3CC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e6f2cd?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 23.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e6f2cd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e6f2cd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e6f2cd] or text-[#e6f2cd], 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 #e6f2cd with 50% opacity?

rgba(230, 242, 205, 0.5), or #e6f2cd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F3F9E6; over black, #737967.

Is #e6f2cd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e6f2cd 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 #e6f2cd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F7FBEF, #e6f2cd 45%, #4D651A). For more colour, a short hue run to #B5ECB9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e6f2cd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e6f2cd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.