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#f8feec

a pale, electric green · warm · closest name: Ivory

Token name suggestion: Whisper Jade

RGB
248, 254, 236
HSL
80°, 90%, 96%
CMYK
2, 0, 7, 0
Luminance
0.9690

#f8feec is a pale electric green, 80° on the wheel and 42/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.38:1). As text it scores 1.03:1 on white — use #577E07 instead. Nearest name is Ivory, nearest Tailwind family is lime.

hsl(80 90% 96%)rgb(248 254 236)Base step 50AAA inkWarm

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f8feec is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f8feec
Hue
80°
green
Saturation
90%
electric
Lightness
96%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
98%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9690
WCAG relative
Temperature
Warm
42/100 cool
Color family
Green
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
20.38:1
Closest name
Ivory
ΔE2000 3
Chroma
9.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.988
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
lime
500 · ΔE 28.8
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue80° of 360°
Saturation90%
Lightness96%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f8feec.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool42% 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
Red21%
Green73%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#f8feec
HEX (8-digit)#f8feecff
RGBrgb(248, 254, 236)
RGBArgba(248, 254, 236, 1)
HSLhsl(80, 90%, 96%)
HSV / HSBhsv(80, 7%, 100%)
HWBhwb(80 93% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 0%, 7%, 0%)
LABlab(98.8 -5.1 7.9)
LCHlch(98.8 9.4 122.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.988 0.024 121.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(89.29, 96.90, 93.34)
Decimal16318188
Display P3color(display-p3 0.973 0.996 0.925)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f8feec;
background-color: #f8feec;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f8feec;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f8feec] bg-[#f8feec]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f8feec;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.973, green: 0.996, blue: 0.925)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.973, green: 0.996, blue: 0.925, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F8FEEC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF8FEEC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF8FEEC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(236, 254, 248)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(248, 254, 236)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(248, 254, 236)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 248, 254, 236)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9725f, 0.9961f, 0.9255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{248,254,236}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f8feec 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f8feec 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#537906, #E5EED3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f8feec 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: #f8feec;
  --brand-100: #F3FBE5;
  --brand-200: #E7F8C3;
  --brand-300: #D8F994;
  --brand-400: #C4F75F;
  --brand-500: #B0F42A;
  --brand-600: #9FE90C;
  --brand-700: #85C20A;
  --brand-800: #6A9B08;
  --brand-900: #4E700B;
  --brand-950: #314607;
  --brand: #f8feec;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F8FAF4;
  --brand-border: #DEEDC0;
  --brand-hover: #ECFCCA;
  --brand-pressed: #DFFAA8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1F2414;
    --brand-ink: #E5EED3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f8feec',
        100: '#F3FBE5',
        200: '#E7F8C3',
        300: '#D8F994',
        400: '#C4F75F',
        500: '#B0F42A',
        600: '#9FE90C',
        700: '#85C20A',
        800: '#6A9B08',
        900: '#4E700B',
        950: '#314607',
        DEFAULT: '#f8feec',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f8feec,
  '100': #F3FBE5,
  '200': #E7F8C3,
  '300': #D8F994,
  '400': #C4F75F,
  '500': #B0F42A,
  '600': #9FE90C,
  '700': #85C20A,
  '800': #6A9B08,
  '900': #4E700B,
  '950': #314607,
);
$brand-base: #f8feec;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f8feec", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#F3FBE5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#E7F8C3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#D8F994", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#C4F75F", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#B0F42A", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#9FE90C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#85C20A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#6A9B08", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#4E700B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#314607", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f8feec · 20.38:1
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 · 20.38:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f8feec as text scores 1.03:1 on white and 20.38:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #537906 at 4.96:1.

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
#577E07 · 4.78:1
AA on white−70% L
#577E07
The quick fox
#436105 · 7.12:1
AAA on white−76% L
#436105
The quick fox
#f8feec · 20.38:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f8feec
The quick fox
#f8feec · 20.38:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f8feec

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #6EA008 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
#f8feec on white: 1.03:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f8feec on black: 20.38:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f8feec as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f8feec.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.03:1AaAa
Slate 501.02:1AaAa
Slate 1001.06:1AaAa
Slate 2001.20:1AaAa
Slate 3001.44:1AaAa
Slate 4002.49:1AaAa
Slate 5004.62:1AaAa
Slate 6007.35:1AaAa
Slate 70010.05:1AaAa
Slate 80014.20:1AaAa
Slate 90017.32:1AaAa
Black20.38:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FFFCEB
deuteranopia · #FFFCED
tritanopia · #FAFCF9

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. #f8feec 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.

#f8feec
#F3FBE5
#E7F8C3
#D8F994
#C4F75F
#B0F42A
#9FE90C
#85C20A
#6A9B08
#4E700B
#314607
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f8feecDarkest = 950 · #314607Text 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 0.006 121.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.010 121.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.015 121.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.019 121.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.022 121.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.024 121.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.024 121.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.023 121.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.020 121.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.017 121.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.013 121.9);
}

Colors that work with #f8feec

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#809B4B
Captions on the surface
Accent#140AC2
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#537906
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F6FEE7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1F2414
Dark-mode background
Hover#ECFCCA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#DFFAA8
Two steps down
Disabled#F6F7F3
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#F1FFD6
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 #f8feec

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 #537906
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #6EA008

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
  • 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#F2ECFE
Analogous left#FEFBEC
Analogous right#EFFEEC
Split-complement 1#ECEFFE
Split-complement 2#FBECFE
Triadic 1#ECF8FE
Triadic 2#FEECF8
Tetradic#ECFEFB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°80°

#f8feec sits at 80°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red97.3%
Green99.6%
Blue92.5%
R · 0–255
248
0xf8
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
236
0xec

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow7.1%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 10%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f8feec text on a black background

contrast 20.38:1

Card sample

#f8feec text on a white background

contrast 1.03:1

Card sample

#f8feec on grey

1.06:1

#f8feec on its own surface

1.02:1

#f8feec on its dark surface

15.43:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f8feec;
Background color
Panel with #f8feec background
background-color: #f8feec;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f8feec;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(248, 254, 236, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(248, 254, 236, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f8feec;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f8feec, #ECFEEC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f8feec, #ECFEF1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f8feec;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f8feec;
caret-color: #f8feec;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f8feec;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F6FEE7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f8feec;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f8feec 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f8feec 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(248, 254, 236, 0.5)
rgb(248 254 236 / 50%)
#f8feec80
hsl(80 90% 96% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f8feec 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f8feec1a#FEFFFD
20%#f8feec33#FEFFFB
40%#f8feec66#FCFFF7
60%#f8feec99#FBFEF4
80%#f8feeccc#F9FEF0

Gradients from #f8feec

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, #F8FEEC, #f8feec 45%, #537906);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f8feec, #CFFCD3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f8feec, #F2ECFE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #FAFEF0 0%, #f8feec 45%, #537906 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #537906 0%, transparent 65%), #f8feec;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f8feec

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.

#f8feec 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 20.38:1.

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.

#f8feec, answered

What color is #f8feec?

#f8feec is a pale electric green, closest to Ivory (ΔE2000 3). It sits at 80° on the hue wheel with 90% saturation and 96% lightness, which reads as warm.

What is the RGB value of #f8feec?

rgb(248, 254, 236) — 248 red, 254 green and 236 blue out of 255, or 97.3% / 99.6% / 92.5% by channel.

What is #f8feec in HSL and HSV?

hsl(80, 90%, 96%) and hsv(80, 7%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f8feec a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9690 and perceived brightness is 98%, so black text on it reaches 20.38:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f8feec?

Black. It scores 20.38:1 against #f8feec, versus 1.03:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f8feec accessible on a white background?

#f8feec on white scores 1.03:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #577E07 to reach 4.5:1, or #436105 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f8feec?

#F2ECFE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #ECEFFE and #FBECFE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f8feec?

For interface work: #F8FAF4 as the surface, #DEEDC0 for borders, #809B4B for secondary text, #140AC2 as an accent and #537906 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #FEFBEC and #EFFEEC stays calm, while #F2ECFE is the loudest partner.

What is #f8feec in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 0%, 7%, 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 #f8feec warm or cool?

Warm — it scores 42 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #FEFDEC; nudged cooler, #F1FEEC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f8feec?

The lime family — its 500 step is #84cc16, ΔE2000 28.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f8feec as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f8feec in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f8feec] or text-[#f8feec], 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 #f8feec with 50% opacity?

rgba(248, 254, 236, 0.5), or #f8feec80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FCFFF6; over black, #7C7F76.

Is #f8feec a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 8.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f8feec 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 #f8feec?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F8FEEC, #f8feec 45%, #537906). For more colour, a short hue run to #CFFCD3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f8feec in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f8feec at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.