Distant Landscape

#e1efdd

Pale gray-green haze for softer, drier backgrounds

Save
Share

About Distant Landscape

Distant Landscape is the gray-green that actually feels gray first. It sits warmer and more saturated than or , which means it has enough presence to hold a layout without pretending to be white. You'll notice the color right away, it's not a trick of the light.

Reach for it in light mode interfaces where you need a soft, approachable background but can't afford to disappear: product pages, reading apps, onboarding flows, wellness dashboards. It pairs cleanly with warm neutrals and muted earth tones in ways the cooler pale greens won't. Type reads sharp. Photography doesn't fight it. And it won't flatten other elements the way the paler options do when you're layering UI states.

The thing: because it's warmer than and more present than , it works harder in layouts that need breathing room without feeling empty. Stack it with warm grays and soft golds instead of cool blues, and it'll feel intentional rather than accidental.

Gradient preview

See how this color looks in an animated mesh gradient.

Conversions

Click any value to copy.

Need this programmatically? Color API

Code snippets

Copy this color into your project.

Contrast checker

WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

Aa
1.19:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

Aa
1.09:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

Aa
14.84:1AAA

On Black #000000

Aa
17.59:1AAA

Variations

Shades

Darker variations, created by mixing toward black.

Tints

Lighter variations, created by mixing toward white.

Tones

Muted variations, created by reducing saturation.

Hues

Hue rotations around the color wheel.

Temperatures

Warm and cool shifts of this color.

Color harmonies

Complementary
Analogous
Triadic
Split Complementary
Tetradic

Suggested palettes

Palettes built around this color.

4 colors
3 colors
4 colors
4 colors

Community palettes

Published palettes that include this color.

Similar colors

Create a gradient with Distant Landscape

Open the generator with this color pre-loaded.

Start creating