HoneyDew color

Inspect HoneyDew (#F0FFF0) in HEX, RGB, HSL, LCH and OKLCH, check its contrast, and copy the value you need.

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HoneyDew

HoneyDew color values

HoneyDew

#F0FFF0

Black text reads best on this background, at 20.27:1.

HoneyDew is one of the 148 CSS named colors, and resolves to #F0FFF0 in every browser. In numbers that is rgb(240, 255, 240) and hsl(120, 100%, 97%). Perceptually it is a very light, near-neutral color: OKLCH puts its lightness at 98% and its chroma at 0.025. It carries almost no chroma, so it behaves as a neutral rather than as a hue, and belongs with the off-whites.

White text only reaches 1.04:1 here, so black text is the safer pairing at 20.27:1. Because it is this light, HoneyDew works best as a page or card background with dark text over it.

The closest CSS named colors to HoneyDew, measured with CIEDE2000, are MintCream (#F5FFFA), Ivory (#FFFFF0), Azure (#F0FFFF). If HoneyDew is not quite right, those are the nearest keywords to try before reaching for a custom value.

HEX

#F0FFF0

RGB

rgb(240, 255, 240)

HSL

hsl(120, 100%, 97%)

HWB

hwb(120 94% 0%)

CMYK

cmyk(6%, 0%, 6%, 0%)

LAB

lab(98.57 -7.08 5.41)

LCH

lch(98.57 8.91 142.58)

OKLCH

oklch(98.48% 0.0252 145.38)

Is HoneyDew accessible?

WCAG asks for 4.5:1 between body text and its background. On #F0FFF0 white text measures 1.04:1 and black text 20.27:1, so black clears it and white does not.

White text on HoneyDew

WCAG 2.2

1.04:1

APCA

Lc 0

Fails AA body text

Fails AAA body text

Fails AA large text

Black text on HoneyDew

WCAG 2.2

20.27:1

APCA

Lc 103

Passes AA body text

Passes AAA body text

Passes AA large text

Check HoneyDew against any other color in the contrast checker.

Tints and shades of HoneyDew

HoneyDew sits at 98% OKLCH lightness. Holding its hue and chroma and moving only that value carries it down to #020802, which keeps the family recognizable instead of letting it drift toward gray the way a plain HSL ramp does.

Shades, toward black

#B8C6B8

20% darker

#839083

40% darker

#515E51

60% darker

#243024

80% darker

#020802

100% darker

Build a full accessible scale from #F0FFF0 in the shade generator.

How HoneyDew looks with color blindness

The biggest shift is under achromatopsia, where #F0FFF0 reads as #FBFBFB, 9.8 CIEDE2000 units away. If HoneyDew is the only thing marking a state or a series, roughly one viewer in twelve will miss it.

Protanopia

#FFFCEF

Deuteranopia

#FDFAF1

Tritanopia

#EFFEFA

Achromatopsia

#FBFBFB

Colors similar to HoneyDew

The nearest CSS keywords to #F0FFF0, ranked by perceptual distance rather than by how close their hex digits happen to look.