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