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#f1fbf7

a pale, vivid green · cool · “Mint Cream”

Token name suggestion: Mist Basil

RGB
241, 251, 247
HSL
156°, 56%, 97%
CMYK
4, 0, 2, 2
Luminance
0.9441

#f1fbf7 is a pale vivid green, 156° on the wheel and 78/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (19.88:1). As text it scores 1.06:1 on white — use #26855F instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(156 56% 97%)rgb(241 251 247)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f1fbf7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f1fbf7
Hue
156°
green
Saturation
56%
vivid
Lightness
97%
pale
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9441
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
78/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
19.88:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 0.9
Chroma
4.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.980
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 28.3
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue156° of 360°
Saturation56%
Lightness97%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f1fbf7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool78% 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
Red20%
Green73%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f1fbf7
HEX (8-digit)#f1fbf7ff
RGBrgb(241, 251, 247)
RGBArgba(241, 251, 247, 1)
HSLhsl(156, 56%, 97%)
HSV / HSBhsv(156, 4%, 98%)
HWBhwb(156 95% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(4%, 0%, 2%, 2%)
LABlab(97.8 -4.0 0.8)
LCHlch(97.8 4.1 169.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.980 0.012 170.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(87.56, 94.41, 101.59)
Decimal15858679
Display P3color(display-p3 0.945 0.984 0.969)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f1fbf7;
background-color: #f1fbf7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f1fbf7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f1fbf7] bg-[#f1fbf7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f1fbf7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.945, green: 0.984, blue: 0.969)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.945, green: 0.984, blue: 0.969, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F1FBF7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF1FBF7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF1FBF7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(247, 251, 241)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(241, 251, 247)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(241, 251, 247)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 241, 251, 247)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9451f, 0.9843f, 0.9686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{241,251,247}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f1fbf7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f1fbf7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1C6347, #D3EEE3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f1fbf7 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: #f1fbf7;
  --brand-100: #E9F6F1;
  --brand-200: #CEEEE1;
  --brand-300: #A8E6CD;
  --brand-400: #7CDAB4;
  --brand-500: #50CD9B;
  --brand-600: #36BE88;
  --brand-700: #2D9F71;
  --brand-800: #247F5B;
  --brand-900: #1E5D43;
  --brand-950: #133A2A;
  --brand: #f1fbf7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDB;
  --brand-hover: #D5F3E7;
  --brand-pressed: #BAEBD7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241E;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f1fbf7',
        100: '#E9F6F1',
        200: '#CEEEE1',
        300: '#A8E6CD',
        400: '#7CDAB4',
        500: '#50CD9B',
        600: '#36BE88',
        700: '#2D9F71',
        800: '#247F5B',
        900: '#1E5D43',
        950: '#133A2A',
        DEFAULT: '#f1fbf7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f1fbf7,
  '100': #E9F6F1,
  '200': #CEEEE1,
  '300': #A8E6CD,
  '400': #7CDAB4,
  '500': #50CD9B,
  '600': #36BE88,
  '700': #2D9F71,
  '800': #247F5B,
  '900': #1E5D43,
  '950': #133A2A,
);
$brand-base: #f1fbf7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f1fbf7", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F6F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CEEEE1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A8E6CD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7CDAB4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#50CD9B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#36BE88", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2D9F71", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#247F5B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1E5D43", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#133A2A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f1fbf7 · 19.88:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.06:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 19.88:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f1fbf7 as text scores 1.06:1 on white and 19.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1C6347 at 6.80:1.

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
#26855F · 4.56:1
AA on white−63% L
#26855F
The quick fox
#1C6145 · 7.38:1
AAA on white−72% L
#1C6145
The quick fox
#f1fbf7 · 19.88:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f1fbf7
The quick fox
#f1fbf7 · 19.88:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f1fbf7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2FA576 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
#f1fbf7 on white: 1.06:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f1fbf7 on black: 19.88:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f1fbf7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f1fbf7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.06:1AaAa
Slate 501.01:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.17:1AaAa
Slate 3001.41:1AaAa
Slate 4002.43:1AaAa
Slate 5004.51:1AaAa
Slate 6007.17:1AaAa
Slate 7009.80:1AaAa
Slate 80013.85:1AaAa
Slate 90016.90:1AaAa
Black19.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FAF9F7
deuteranopia · #F8F8F7
tritanopia · #EFFBFA

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. #f1fbf7 is pinned to step 50; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#f1fbf7
#E9F6F1
#CEEEE1
#A8E6CD
#7CDAB4
#50CD9B
#36BE88
#2D9F71
#247F5B
#1E5D43
#133A2A
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f1fbf7Darkest = 950 · #133A2AText step on white = 800
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 0.003 170.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.005 170.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.007 170.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.009 170.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.011 170.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.012 170.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.012 170.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.011 170.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.010 170.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.008 170.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.006 170.3);
}

Colors that work with #f1fbf7

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B7B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9F2D7D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1C6347
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBF9F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241E
Dark-mode background
Hover#D5F3E7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BAEBD7
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DDF8ED
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 #f1fbf7

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 #1C6347
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2FA576

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
  • Weight4/100
  • 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#FBF1F5
Analogous left#F1FBF2
Analogous right#F1FAFB
Split-complement 1#FBF1FA
Split-complement 2#FBF2F1
Triadic 1#F7F1FB
Triadic 2#FBF7F1
Tetradic#F2F1FB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°156°

#f1fbf7 sits at 156°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.5%
Green98.4%
Blue96.9%
R · 0–255
241
0xf1
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
247
0xf7

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow1.6%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 7%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f1fbf7 text on a black background

contrast 19.88:1

Card sample

#f1fbf7 text on a white background

contrast 1.06:1

Card sample

#f1fbf7 on grey

1.04:1

#f1fbf7 on its own surface

1.00:1

#f1fbf7 on its dark surface

15.28:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f1fbf7;
Background color
Panel with #f1fbf7 background
background-color: #f1fbf7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f1fbf7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(241, 251, 247, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(241, 251, 247, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f1fbf7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f1fbf7, #F1F8FB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1fbf7, #F1F6FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f1fbf7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f1fbf7;
caret-color: #f1fbf7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f1fbf7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBF9F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f1fbf7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f1fbf7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f1fbf7 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(241, 251, 247, 0.5)
rgb(241 251 247 / 50%)
#f1fbf780
hsl(156 56% 97% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f1fbf7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f1fbf71a#FEFFFE
20%#f1fbf733#FCFEFD
40%#f1fbf766#F9FDFC
60%#f1fbf799#F7FDFA
80%#f1fbf7cc#F4FCF9

Gradients from #f1fbf7

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, #EFFAF6, #f1fbf7 45%, #1C6347);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f1fbf7, #D9EBF4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1fbf7, #FBF1F5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FCF8 0%, #f1fbf7 45%, #1C6347 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1C6347 0%, transparent 65%), #f1fbf7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f1fbf7

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.

#f1fbf7 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

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 19.88:1.

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.

#f1fbf7, answered

What color is #f1fbf7?

#f1fbf7 is a pale vivid green — the CSS keyword Mint Cream. It sits at 156° on the hue wheel with 56% saturation and 97% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f1fbf7?

rgb(241, 251, 247) — 241 red, 251 green and 247 blue out of 255, or 94.5% / 98.4% / 96.9% by channel.

What is #f1fbf7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(156, 56%, 97%) and hsv(156, 4%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f1fbf7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9441 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 19.88:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f1fbf7?

Black. It scores 19.88:1 against #f1fbf7, versus 1.06:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f1fbf7 accessible on a white background?

#f1fbf7 on white scores 1.06:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #26855F to reach 4.5:1, or #1C6145 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f1fbf7?

#FBF1F5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FBF1FA and #FBF2F1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f1fbf7?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDB for borders, #4B9B7B for secondary text, #9F2D7D as an accent and #1C6347 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F1FBF2 and #F1FAFB stays calm, while #FBF1F5 is the loudest partner.

What is #f1fbf7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(4%, 0%, 2%, 2%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f1fbf7 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 78 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F1FBF3; nudged cooler, #F1FBFB.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f1fbf7?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 28.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f1fbf7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f1fbf7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f1fbf7] or text-[#f1fbf7], 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 #f1fbf7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(241, 251, 247, 0.5), or #f1fbf780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F8FDFB; over black, #797E7C.

Is #f1fbf7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 5.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f1fbf7 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 #f1fbf7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFFAF6, #f1fbf7 45%, #1C6347). For more colour, a short hue run to #D9EBF4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f1fbf7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f1fbf7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.