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#f4ffcc

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Basil

RGB
244, 255, 204
HSL
73°, 100%, 90%
CMYK
4, 0, 20, 0
Luminance
0.9511

#f4ffcc is a pale electric green, 73° on the wheel and 36/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.02:1). As text it scores 1.05:1 on white — use #648000 instead. Nearest name is Light Goldenrod Yellow, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(73 100% 90%)rgb(244 255 204)Base step 200AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f4ffcc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f4ffcc
Hue
73°
green
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
90%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9511
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
36/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
20.02:1
Closest name
Light Goldenrod Yellow
ΔE2000 4.3
Chroma
26.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.979
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 22.8
Web-safe
#FFFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue73° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness90%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f4ffcc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool36% 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#f4ffcc
HEX (8-digit)#f4ffccff
RGBrgb(244, 255, 204)
RGBArgba(244, 255, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(73, 100%, 90%)
HSV / HSBhsv(73, 20%, 100%)
HWBhwb(73 80% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(4%, 0%, 20%, 0%)
LABlab(98.1 -12.0 23.2)
LCHlch(98.1 26.1 117.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.979 0.067 117.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(83.97, 95.11, 71.05)
Decimal16056268
Display P3color(display-p3 0.957 1.000 0.800)
Web-safe#FFFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f4ffcc;
background-color: #f4ffcc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f4ffcc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f4ffcc] bg-[#f4ffcc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f4ffcc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.957, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.957, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F4FFCC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF4FFCC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF4FFCC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 255, 244)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(244, 255, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(244, 255, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 244, 255, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9569f, 1.0000f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{244,255,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f4ffcc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f4ffcc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#648000, #E8EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f4ffcc 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: #FBFEF1;
  --brand-100: #F7FCE3;
  --brand-200: #f4ffcc;
  --brand-300: #E7FF8F;
  --brand-400: #DBFF57;
  --brand-500: #CFFF1F;
  --brand-600: #C0F500;
  --brand-700: #A0CC00;
  --brand-800: #80A300;
  --brand-900: #5D7605;
  --brand-950: #3A4903;
  --brand: #f4ffcc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F9FAF4;
  --brand-border: #E3EDC0;
  --brand-hover: #ECFFA8;
  --brand-pressed: #E5FF85;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #212414;
    --brand-ink: #E8EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#FBFEF1',
        100: '#F7FCE3',
        200: '#f4ffcc',
        300: '#E7FF8F',
        400: '#DBFF57',
        500: '#CFFF1F',
        600: '#C0F500',
        700: '#A0CC00',
        800: '#80A300',
        900: '#5D7605',
        950: '#3A4903',
        DEFAULT: '#f4ffcc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #FBFEF1,
  '100': #F7FCE3,
  '200': #f4ffcc,
  '300': #E7FF8F,
  '400': #DBFF57,
  '500': #CFFF1F,
  '600': #C0F500,
  '700': #A0CC00,
  '800': #80A300,
  '900': #5D7605,
  '950': #3A4903,
);
$brand-base: #f4ffcc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#FBFEF1", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F7FCE3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#f4ffcc", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#E7FF8F", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#DBFF57", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#CFFF1F", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#C0F500", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#A0CC00", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#80A300", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#5D7605", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#3A4903", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f4ffcc · 20.02:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.05:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.02:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f4ffcc as text scores 1.05:1 on white and 20.02:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #648000 at 4.32:1.

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
#648000 · 4.54:1
AA on white−65% L
#648000
The quick fox
#485C00 · 7.48:1
AAA on white−72% L
#485C00
The quick fox
#f4ffcc · 20.02:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f4ffcc
The quick fox
#f4ffcc · 20.02:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f4ffcc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7C9E00 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
#f4ffcc on white: 1.05:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f4ffcc on black: 20.02:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f4ffcc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f4ffcc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.05:1AaAa
Slate 501.00:1AaAa
Slate 1001.04:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.42:1AaAa
Slate 4002.44:1AaAa
Slate 5004.54:1AaAa
Slate 6007.22:1AaAa
Slate 7009.87:1AaAa
Slate 80013.95:1AaAa
Slate 90017.02:1AaAa
Black20.02:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFF9C9
deuteranopia · #FFFACE
tritanopia · #F9F9F1

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. #f4ffcc 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.

#FBFEF1
#F7FCE3
#f4ffcc
#E7FF8F
#DBFF57
#CFFF1F
#C0F500
#A0CC00
#80A300
#5D7605
#3A4903
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #FBFEF1Darkest = 950 · #3A4903Text 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 0.017 117.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 117.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 117.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.052 117.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.062 117.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.067 117.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.067 117.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.063 117.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.056 117.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.047 117.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.037 117.5);
}

Colors that work with #f4ffcc

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#F9FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#E3EDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#8A9B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#0008CC
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#648000
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#FAFFE5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#212414
Dark-mode background
Hover#ECFFA8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#E5FF85
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F6FFD6
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 #f4ffcc

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 #648000
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7C9E00

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
  • Weight10/100
  • 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#D7CCFF
Analogous left#FFF0CC
Analogous right#DBFFCC
Split-complement 1#CCDBFF
Split-complement 2#F0CCFF
Triadic 1#CCF4FF
Triadic 2#FFCCF4
Tetradic#CCFFF0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°73°

#f4ffcc sits at 73°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red95.7%
Green100.0%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
244
0xf4
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow20.0%
Key (black)0.0%

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

Color previews

#f4ffcc text on a black background

contrast 20.02:1

Card sample

#f4ffcc text on a white background

contrast 1.05:1

Card sample

#f4ffcc on grey

1.04:1

#f4ffcc on its own surface

1.00:1

#f4ffcc on its dark surface

15.09:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f4ffcc;
Background color
Panel with #f4ffcc background
background-color: #f4ffcc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f4ffcc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(244, 255, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(244, 255, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f4ffcc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f4ffcc, #D2FFCC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f4ffcc, #CCFFD3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f4ffcc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f4ffcc;
caret-color: #f4ffcc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f4ffcc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #FAFFE5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f4ffcc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f4ffcc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f4ffcc 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(244, 255, 204, 0.5)
rgb(244 255 204 / 50%)
#f4ffcc80
hsl(73 100% 90% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f4ffcc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f4ffcc1a#FEFFFA
20%#f4ffcc33#FDFFF5
40%#f4ffcc66#FBFFEB
60%#f4ffcc99#F8FFE0
80%#f4ffcccc#F6FFD6

Gradients from #f4ffcc

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, #FBFFEB, #f4ffcc 45%, #648000);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f4ffcc, #B0FFAD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f4ffcc, #D7CCFF);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FCFFF0 0%, #f4ffcc 45%, #648000 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F9FAF4, #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%, #EFFFEB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #648000 0%, transparent 65%), #f4ffcc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f4ffcc

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.

#f4ffcc 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 20.02:1.

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.

#f4ffcc, answered

What color is #f4ffcc?

#f4ffcc is a pale electric green, closest to Light Goldenrod Yellow (ΔE2000 4.3). It sits at 73° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 90% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f4ffcc?

rgb(244, 255, 204) — 244 red, 255 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 95.7% / 100% / 80% by channel.

What is #f4ffcc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(73, 100%, 90%) and hsv(73, 20%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f4ffcc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9511 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 20.02:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f4ffcc?

Black. It scores 20.02:1 against #f4ffcc, versus 1.05:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f4ffcc accessible on a white background?

#f4ffcc on white scores 1.05:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #648000 to reach 4.5:1, or #485C00 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f4ffcc?

#D7CCFF sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CCDBFF and #F0CCFF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f4ffcc?

For interface work: #F9FAF4 as the surface, #E3EDC0 for borders, #8A9B4B for secondary text, #0008CC as an accent and #648000 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FFF0CC and #DBFFCC stays calm, while #D7CCFF is the loudest partner.

What is #f4ffcc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(4%, 0%, 20%, 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 #f4ffcc warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 36 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FFF7CC; nudged cooler, #E1FFCC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f4ffcc?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 22.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f4ffcc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f4ffcc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f4ffcc] or text-[#f4ffcc], 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 #f4ffcc with 50% opacity?

rgba(244, 255, 204, 0.5), or #f4ffcc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FAFFE6; over black, #7A8066.

Is #f4ffcc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFCC, ΔE2000 3.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f4ffcc 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 #f4ffcc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #FBFFEB, #f4ffcc 45%, #648000). For more colour, a short hue run to #B0FFAD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f4ffcc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f4ffcc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.