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#f1feee

a pale, electric green · neutral · “Honey Dew”

Token name suggestion: Chalk Jade

RGB
241, 254, 238
HSL
109°, 89%, 97%
CMYK
5, 0, 6, 0
Luminance
0.9576

#f1feee is a pale electric green, 109° on the wheel and 58/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.15:1). As text it scores 1.04:1 on white — use #208908 instead. Nearest name is Honey Dew, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(109 89% 97%)rgb(241 254 238)Base step 50AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f1feee is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f1feee
Hue
109°
green
Saturation
89%
electric
Lightness
97%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9576
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
58/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
20.15:1
Closest name
Honey Dew
ΔE2000 0.8
Chroma
9.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.983
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 28.2
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue109° of 360°
Saturation89%
Lightness97%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f1feee.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool58% 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
Red20%
Green74%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#f1feee
HEX (8-digit)#f1feeeff
RGBrgb(241, 254, 238)
RGBArgba(241, 254, 238, 1)
HSLhsl(109, 89%, 97%)
HSV / HSBhsv(109, 6%, 100%)
HWBhwb(109 93% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(5%, 0%, 6%, 0%)
LABlab(98.3 -7.1 6.2)
LCHlch(98.3 9.4 138.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.983 0.025 139.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(87.15, 95.76, 94.76)
Decimal15859438
Display P3color(display-p3 0.945 0.996 0.933)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f1feee;
background-color: #f1feee;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f1feee;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f1feee] bg-[#f1feee]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f1feee;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.945, green: 0.996, blue: 0.933)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.945, green: 0.996, blue: 0.933, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F1FEEE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF1FEEE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF1FEEE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(238, 254, 241)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(241, 254, 238)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(241, 254, 238)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 241, 254, 238)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9451f, 0.9961f, 0.9333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{241,254,238}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f1feee 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f1feee 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1C7807, #D8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f1feee 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: #f1feee;
  --brand-100: #E9FBE5;
  --brand-200: #CDF8C4;
  --brand-300: #A8F995;
  --brand-400: #7CF660;
  --brand-500: #50F32B;
  --brand-600: #36E70E;
  --brand-700: #2DC10B;
  --brand-800: #249A09;
  --brand-900: #1E6F0B;
  --brand-950: #134607;
  --brand: #f1feee;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF4;
  --brand-border: #C8EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #D5FCCC;
  --brand-pressed: #BAFAAB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #172414;
    --brand-ink: #D8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f1feee',
        100: '#E9FBE5',
        200: '#CDF8C4',
        300: '#A8F995',
        400: '#7CF660',
        500: '#50F32B',
        600: '#36E70E',
        700: '#2DC10B',
        800: '#249A09',
        900: '#1E6F0B',
        950: '#134607',
        DEFAULT: '#f1feee',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f1feee,
  '100': #E9FBE5,
  '200': #CDF8C4,
  '300': #A8F995,
  '400': #7CF660,
  '500': #50F32B,
  '600': #36E70E,
  '700': #2DC10B,
  '800': #249A09,
  '900': #1E6F0B,
  '950': #134607,
);
$brand-base: #f1feee;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f1feee", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9FBE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CDF8C4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A8F995", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7CF660", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#50F32B", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#36E70E", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2DC10B", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#249A09", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1E6F0B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#134607", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f1feee · 20.15:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.04:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.15:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f1feee as text scores 1.04:1 on white and 20.15:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1C7807 at 5.39:1.

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
#208908 · 4.52:1
AA on white−68% L
#208908
The quick fox
#176306 · 7.44:1
AAA on white−76% L
#176306
The quick fox
#f1feee · 20.15:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f1feee
The quick fox
#f1feee · 20.15:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f1feee

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #28AB0A 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
#f1feee on white: 1.04:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f1feee on black: 20.15:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f1feee as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f1feee.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.04:1AaAa
Slate 501.00:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.42:1AaAa
Slate 4002.46:1AaAa
Slate 5004.57:1AaAa
Slate 6007.27:1AaAa
Slate 7009.94:1AaAa
Slate 80014.04:1AaAa
Slate 90017.13:1AaAa
Black20.15:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFFBED
deuteranopia · #FDFAEF
tritanopia · #F0FDF9

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. #f1feee 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.

#f1feee
#E9FBE5
#CDF8C4
#A8F995
#7CF660
#50F32B
#36E70E
#2DC10B
#249A09
#1E6F0B
#134607
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f1feeeDarkest = 950 · #134607Text 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 0.006 139.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.010 139.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.015 139.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.020 139.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.023 139.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.025 139.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.025 139.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.024 139.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.021 139.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.018 139.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.014 139.8);
}

Colors that work with #f1feee

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#F5FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#C8EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#5A9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#710BC1
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1C7807
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#172414
Dark-mode background
Hover#D5FCCC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BAFAAB
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DEFFD6
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 #f1feee

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 #1C7807
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #28AB0A

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
  • Weight4/100
  • 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#FBEEFE
Analogous left#F9FEEE
Analogous right#EEFEF3
Split-complement 1#F3EEFE
Split-complement 2#FEEEF9
Triadic 1#EEF1FE
Triadic 2#FEEEF1
Tetradic#EEF9FE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°109°

#f1feee sits at 109°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.5%
Green99.6%
Blue93.3%
R · 0–255
241
0xf1
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
238
0xee

CMYK percentages

Cyan5.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow6.3%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 12%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f1feee text on a black background

contrast 20.15:1

Card sample

#f1feee text on a white background

contrast 1.04:1

Card sample

#f1feee on grey

1.05:1

#f1feee on its own surface

1.01:1

#f1feee on its dark surface

15.51:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f1feee;
Background color
Panel with #f1feee background
background-color: #f1feee;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f1feee;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(241, 254, 238, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(241, 254, 238, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f1feee;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f1feee, #EEFEF6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1feee, #EEFEFA);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f1feee;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f1feee;
caret-color: #f1feee;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f1feee;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f1feee;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f1feee 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f1feee 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, 254, 238, 0.5)
rgb(241 254 238 / 50%)
#f1feee80
hsl(109 89% 97% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f1feee 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f1feee1a#FEFFFD
20%#f1feee33#FCFFFC
40%#f1feee66#F9FFF8
60%#f1feee99#F7FEF5
80%#f1feeecc#F4FEF1

Gradients from #f1feee

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, #EFFEEC, #f1feee 45%, #1C7807);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f1feee, #D1FCEA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1feee, #FBEEFE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FEF1 0%, #f1feee 45%, #1C7807 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF4, #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%, #1C7807 0%, transparent 65%), #f1feee;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f1feee

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.

#f1feee 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 20.15:1.

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.

#f1feee, answered

What color is #f1feee?

#f1feee is a pale electric green — the CSS keyword Honey Dew. It sits at 109° on the hue wheel with 89% saturation and 97% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #f1feee?

rgb(241, 254, 238) — 241 red, 254 green and 238 blue out of 255, or 94.5% / 99.6% / 93.3% by channel.

What is #f1feee in HSL and HSV?

hsl(109, 89%, 97%) and hsv(109, 6%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f1feee a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9576 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 20.15:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f1feee?

Black. It scores 20.15:1 against #f1feee, versus 1.04:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f1feee accessible on a white background?

#f1feee on white scores 1.04:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #208908 to reach 4.5:1, or #176306 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f1feee?

#FBEEFE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F3EEFE and #FEEEF9, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f1feee?

For interface work: #F5FAF4 as the surface, #C8EDC0 for borders, #5A9B4B for secondary text, #710BC1 as an accent and #1C7807 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F9FEEE and #EEFEF3 stays calm, while #FBEEFE is the loudest partner.

What is #f1feee in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(5%, 0%, 6%, 0%). 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 #f1feee warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 58 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F7FEEE; nudged cooler, #EEFEF1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f1feee?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 28.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f1feee as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f1feee in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f1feee] or text-[#f1feee], 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 #f1feee with 50% opacity?

rgba(241, 254, 238, 0.5), or #f1feee80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F8FFF7; over black, #797F77.

Is #f1feee a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 9.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f1feee 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 #f1feee?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFFEEC, #f1feee 45%, #1C7807). For more colour, a short hue run to #D1FCEA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f1feee in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f1feee at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.