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Fine Aloe

#f0ffe4
Notes

Fine Aloe (#F0FFE4) is a soft lime with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (93°, 100%, 95%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#f0ffe4
RGB
rgb(240, 255, 228)
HSL
hsl(93, 100%, 95%)
HWB
hwb(93 89% 0%)
OKLCH
oklch(98.2% 0.039 131.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9520 0.9981 0.9032)
HSV
hsv(93, 11%, 100%)
LAB
lab(98.29% -9.60 11.23)
LCH
lch(98.29% 14.78 130.53)
CMYK
cmyk(6%, 0%, 11%, 0%)

Etymology

Fine
adjective

Old French fin, fine / refined — sharing root with Latin fīnis (end). As a color modifier, fine implies a pale-and-precisely-detailed-and-refined quality where the hue carries the visual register of Sèvres-and-Meissen fine-bone-china porcelain finely-detailed surface. Sits at the pale-and-delicate end of the grid, parallel to delicate and filigree in usage.

Aloe
noun

Aloe vera, the succulent whose translucent inner leaf gel has been used as a cosmetic and medicinal salve since classical antiquity. The color refers to a fresh aloe leaf in cross-section: a soft, slightly cool yellow-green with the satin finish of succulent leaf-tissue.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#f0ffe4
Original
#fffbe3
Protanopia
#fffae5
Deuteranopia
#f1fcf7
Tritanopia
#fafafa
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
1.04:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
20.13:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##F0FFE4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9520 0.9981 0.9032)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.039

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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