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#f7fdf4

a pale, vivid green · neutral · closest name: Mint Cream

Token name suggestion: Whisper Moss

RGB
247, 253, 244
HSL
100°, 69%, 98%
CMYK
2, 0, 4, 1
Luminance
0.9656

#f7fdf4 is a pale vivid green, 100° on the wheel and 54/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.31:1). As text it scores 1.03:1 on white — use #3C8418 instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(100 69% 98%)rgb(247 253 244)Base step 50AAA inkNeutral

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7fdf4 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7fdf4
Hue
100°
green
Saturation
69%
vivid
Lightness
98%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
98%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9656
WCAG relative
Temperature
Neutral
54/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
20.31:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 2.3
Chroma
5.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.987
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 29.9
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue100° of 360°
Saturation69%
Lightness98%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7fdf4.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool54% 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%
Green73%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f7fdf4
HEX (8-digit)#f7fdf4ff
RGBrgb(247, 253, 244)
RGBArgba(247, 253, 244, 1)
HSLhsl(100, 69%, 98%)
HSV / HSBhsv(100, 4%, 99%)
HWBhwb(100 96% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 0%, 4%, 1%)
LABlab(98.7 -3.5 3.6)
LCHlch(98.7 5.1 134.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.987 0.013 134.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(89.81, 96.56, 99.48)
Decimal16252404
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.992 0.957)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7fdf4;
background-color: #f7fdf4;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7fdf4;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7fdf4] bg-[#f7fdf4]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7fdf4;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.992, blue: 0.957)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.992, blue: 0.957, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7FDF4</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7FDF4)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7FDF4)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(244, 253, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 253, 244)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 253, 244)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 253, 244)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.9922f, 0.9569f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,253,244}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7fdf4 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7fdf4 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#316C14, #DCEED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7fdf4 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: #f7fdf4;
  --brand-100: #EDF8E7;
  --brand-200: #D7F2CA;
  --brand-300: #BAEEA0;
  --brand-400: #97E571;
  --brand-500: #75DC41;
  --brand-600: #5ECF26;
  --brand-700: #4EAD1F;
  --brand-800: #3F8A19;
  --brand-900: #306416;
  --brand-950: #1E3F0E;
  --brand: #f7fdf4;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F6FAF4;
  --brand-border: #CFEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #E1F8D6;
  --brand-pressed: #CBF2B8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #192414;
    --brand-ink: #DCEED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f7fdf4',
        100: '#EDF8E7',
        200: '#D7F2CA',
        300: '#BAEEA0',
        400: '#97E571',
        500: '#75DC41',
        600: '#5ECF26',
        700: '#4EAD1F',
        800: '#3F8A19',
        900: '#306416',
        950: '#1E3F0E',
        DEFAULT: '#f7fdf4',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f7fdf4,
  '100': #EDF8E7,
  '200': #D7F2CA,
  '300': #BAEEA0,
  '400': #97E571,
  '500': #75DC41,
  '600': #5ECF26,
  '700': #4EAD1F,
  '800': #3F8A19,
  '900': #306416,
  '950': #1E3F0E,
);
$brand-base: #f7fdf4;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f7fdf4", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EDF8E7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D7F2CA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#BAEEA0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#97E571", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#75DC41", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#5ECF26", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#4EAD1F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#3F8A19", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#306416", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1E3F0E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7fdf4 · 20.31:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.03:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.31:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7fdf4 as text scores 1.03:1 on white and 20.31:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #316C14 at 6.18:1.

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
#3C8418 · 4.66:1
AA on white−67% L
#3C8418
The quick fox
#2E6512 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−74% L
#2E6512
The quick fox
#f7fdf4 · 20.31:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7fdf4
The quick fox
#f7fdf4 · 20.31:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7fdf4

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4CA61E 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
#f7fdf4 on white: 1.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7fdf4 on black: 20.31:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7fdf4 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7fdf4.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.03:1AaAa
Slate 501.01:1AaAa
Slate 1001.06:1AaAa
Slate 2001.19:1AaAa
Slate 3001.44:1AaAa
Slate 4002.48:1AaAa
Slate 5004.60:1AaAa
Slate 6007.33:1AaAa
Slate 70010.02:1AaAa
Slate 80014.15:1AaAa
Slate 90017.27:1AaAa
Black20.31:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FEFBF4
deuteranopia · #FDFBF4
tritanopia · #F7FCFA

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. #f7fdf4 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.

#f7fdf4
#EDF8E7
#D7F2CA
#BAEEA0
#97E571
#75DC41
#5ECF26
#4EAD1F
#3F8A19
#306416
#1E3F0E
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f7fdf4Darkest = 950 · #1E3F0EText 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 0.003 134.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.005 134.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.008 134.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.010 134.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.012 134.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.013 134.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.013 134.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.013 134.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.011 134.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.009 134.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.007 134.9);
}

Colors that work with #f7fdf4

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#F6FAF4
Tinted page background
Border#CFEDC0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#659B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#5E1FAD
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#316C14
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EFFBE9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#192414
Dark-mode background
Hover#E1F8D6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#CBF2B8
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#E5FBDA
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 #f7fdf4

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 #316C14
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4CA61E

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
  • Weight3/100
  • 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#FAF4FD
Analogous left#FCFDF4
Analogous right#F4FDF6
Split-complement 1#F6F4FD
Split-complement 2#FDF4FC
Triadic 1#F4F7FD
Triadic 2#FDF4F7
Tetradic#F4FCFD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°100°

#f7fdf4 sits at 100°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green99.2%
Blue95.7%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
244
0xf4

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow3.6%
Key (black)0.8%

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

Color previews

#f7fdf4 text on a black background

contrast 20.31:1

Card sample

#f7fdf4 text on a white background

contrast 1.03:1

Card sample

#f7fdf4 on grey

1.06:1

#f7fdf4 on its own surface

1.02:1

#f7fdf4 on its dark surface

15.58:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7fdf4;
Background color
Panel with #f7fdf4 background
background-color: #f7fdf4;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7fdf4;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 253, 244, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 253, 244, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7fdf4;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7fdf4, #F4FDF7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7fdf4, #F4FDF9);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7fdf4;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7fdf4;
caret-color: #f7fdf4;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7fdf4;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EFFBE9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7fdf4;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7fdf4 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7fdf4 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(247, 253, 244, 0.5)
rgb(247 253 244 / 50%)
#f7fdf480
hsl(100 69% 98% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7fdf4 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7fdf41a#FEFFFE
20%#f7fdf433#FDFFFD
40%#f7fdf466#FCFEFB
60%#f7fdf499#FAFEF8
80%#f7fdf4cc#F9FDF6

Gradients from #f7fdf4

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, #F2FCEE, #f7fdf4 45%, #316C14);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7fdf4, #DAF8E7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7fdf4, #FAF4FD);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F6FDF2 0%, #f7fdf4 45%, #316C14 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F6FAF4, #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%, #316C14 0%, transparent 65%), #f7fdf4;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7fdf4

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.

#f7fdf4 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 20.31:1.

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.

#f7fdf4, answered

What color is #f7fdf4?

#f7fdf4 is a pale vivid green, closest to Mint Cream (ΔE2000 2.3). It sits at 100° on the hue wheel with 69% saturation and 98% lightness, which reads as neutral.

What is the RGB value of #f7fdf4?

rgb(247, 253, 244) — 247 red, 253 green and 244 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 99.2% / 95.7% by channel.

What is #f7fdf4 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(100, 69%, 98%) and hsv(100, 4%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7fdf4 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9656 and perceived brightness is 98%, so black text on it reaches 20.31:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7fdf4?

Black. It scores 20.31:1 against #f7fdf4, versus 1.03:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7fdf4 accessible on a white background?

#f7fdf4 on white scores 1.03:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3C8418 to reach 4.5:1, or #2E6512 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7fdf4?

#FAF4FD sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F6F4FD and #FDF4FC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7fdf4?

For interface work: #F6FAF4 as the surface, #CFEDC0 for borders, #659B4B for secondary text, #5E1FAD as an accent and #316C14 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FCFDF4 and #F4FDF6 stays calm, while #FAF4FD is the loudest partner.

What is #f7fdf4 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 0%, 4%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f7fdf4 warm or cool?

Neutral — it scores 54 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F9FDF2; nudged cooler, #F2FDF2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7fdf4?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 29.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7fdf4 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7fdf4 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7fdf4] or text-[#f7fdf4], 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 #f7fdf4 with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 253, 244, 0.5), or #f7fdf480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBFEFA; over black, #7C7F7A.

Is #f7fdf4 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 5.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7fdf4 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 #f7fdf4?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F2FCEE, #f7fdf4 45%, #316C14). For more colour, a short hue run to #DAF8E7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7fdf4 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7fdf4 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.