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cyan · cool

#0ec2df

a balanced, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Sky Blue

Token name suggestion: Atlas Reef

RGB
14, 194, 223
HSL
188°, 88%, 47%
CMYK
94, 13, 0, 13
Luminance
0.4400

#0ec2df is a balanced electric cyan, 188° on the wheel and 91/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.80:1). As text it scores 2.14:1 on white — use #097F92 instead. Nearest name is Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(188 88% 47%)rgb(14 194 223)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0ec2df is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0ec2df
Hue
188°
cyan
Saturation
88%
electric
Lightness
47%
balanced
Brightness
87%
HSV value
Perceived
65%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4400
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
91/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
9.80:1
Closest name
Sky Blue
ΔE2000 8.8
Chroma
39.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.749
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 3.3
Web-safe
#00CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue188° of 360°
Saturation88%
Lightness47%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0ec2df.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool91% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red0%
Green88%
Blue12%

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

Every format

HEX#0ec2df
HEX (8-digit)#0ec2dfff
RGBrgb(14, 194, 223)
RGBArgba(14, 194, 223, 1)
HSLhsl(188, 88%, 47%)
HSV / HSBhsv(188, 94%, 87%)
HWBhwb(188 5% 13%)
CMYKcmyk(94%, 13%, 0%, 13%)
LABlab(72.2 -29.6 -25.7)
LCHlch(72.2 39.2 221.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.749 0.130 213.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(32.79, 44.00, 76.56)
Decimal967391
Display P3color(display-p3 0.055 0.761 0.875)
Web-safe#00CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0ec2df;
background-color: #0ec2df;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0ec2df;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0ec2df] bg-[#0ec2df]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0ec2df;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.055, green: 0.761, blue: 0.875)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.055, green: 0.761, blue: 0.875, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0EC2DF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0EC2DF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0EC2DF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(223, 194, 14)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(14, 194, 223)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(14, 194, 223)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 14, 194, 223)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0549f, 0.7608f, 0.8745f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{14,194,223}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0ec2df 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0ec2df 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#086878, #D3EAEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0ec2df 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: #F2FBFD;
  --brand-100: #E5F7FA;
  --brand-200: #C4F1F8;
  --brand-300: #95EBF8;
  --brand-400: #61E1F5;
  --brand-500: #2CD6F2;
  --brand-600: #0ec2df;
  --brand-700: #0CA7C0;
  --brand-800: #0A869A;
  --brand-900: #0C616F;
  --brand-950: #073D45;
  --brand: #0ec2df;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0E6ED;
  --brand-hover: #0CA5BE;
  --brand-pressed: #0A889C;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142224;
    --brand-ink: #D3EAEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FBFD',
        100: '#E5F7FA',
        200: '#C4F1F8',
        300: '#95EBF8',
        400: '#61E1F5',
        500: '#2CD6F2',
        600: '#0ec2df',
        700: '#0CA7C0',
        800: '#0A869A',
        900: '#0C616F',
        950: '#073D45',
        DEFAULT: '#0ec2df',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FBFD,
  '100': #E5F7FA,
  '200': #C4F1F8,
  '300': #95EBF8,
  '400': #61E1F5,
  '500': #2CD6F2,
  '600': #0ec2df,
  '700': #0CA7C0,
  '800': #0A869A,
  '900': #0C616F,
  '950': #073D45,
);
$brand-base: #0ec2df;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FBFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5F7FA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C4F1F8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#95EBF8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#61E1F5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2CD6F2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0ec2df", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0CA7C0", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0A869A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0C616F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#073D45", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #0ec2df · 9.80:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.14:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.80:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #0ec2df as text scores 2.14:1 on white and 9.80:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #086878 at 3.00:1.

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
#097F92 · 4.71:1
AA on white−16% L
#097F92
The quick fox
#076271 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−23% L
#076271
The quick fox
#0ec2df · 9.80:1
AA on blackalready passes
#0ec2df
The quick fox
#0ec2df · 9.80:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#0ec2df

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0CA1B9 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
#0ec2df on white: 2.14:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0ec2df on black: 9.80:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0ec2df as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0ec2df.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.14:1AaAa
Slate 502.05:1AaAa
Slate 1001.96:1AaAa
Slate 2001.74:1AaAa
Slate 3001.44:1AaAa
Slate 4001.20:1AaAa
Slate 5002.22:1AaAa
Slate 6003.54:1AaAa
Slate 7004.83:1AaAa
Slate 8006.83:1AaAa
Slate 9008.33:1AaAa
Black9.80:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #ADBBE1
deuteranopia · #94A9DF
tritanopia · #00CDCB

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. #0ec2df is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FBFD
#E5F7FA
#C4F1F8
#95EBF8
#61E1F5
#2CD6F2
#0ec2df
#0CA7C0
#0A869A
#0C616F
#073D45
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2FBFDDarkest = 950 · #073D45Text 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 0.032 213.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.052 213.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.078 213.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.101 213.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.120 213.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.130 213.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.130 213.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.122 213.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.109 213.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.091 213.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.071 213.6);
}

Colors that work with #0ec2df

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#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E6ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B909B
Captions on the surface
Accent#E40922
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#086878
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FAFD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142224
Dark-mode background
Hover#0CA5BE
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0A889C
Two steps down
Disabled#9DBBC0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#05DAFD
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #0ec2df

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • 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 #086878
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0CA1B9

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight54/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

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#DF2B0E
Analogous left#0EDF94
Analogous right#0E5ADF
Split-complement 1#DF0E5A
Split-complement 2#DF940E
Triadic 1#DF0EC2
Triadic 2#C2DF0E
Tetradic#940EDF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°188°

#0ec2df sits at 188°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red5.5%
Green76.1%
Blue87.5%
R · 0–255
14
0x0e
G · 0–255
194
0xc2
B · 0–255
223
0xdf

CMYK percentages

Cyan93.7%
Magenta13.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)12.5%

Total ink coverage is 119%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0ec2df text on a black background

contrast 9.80:1

Card sample

#0ec2df text on a white background

contrast 2.14:1

Card sample

#0ec2df on grey

1.96:1

#0ec2df on its own surface

2.03:1

#0ec2df on its dark surface

7.63:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0ec2df;
Background color
Panel with #0ec2df background
background-color: #0ec2df;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0ec2df;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(14, 194, 223, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(14, 194, 223, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0ec2df;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0ec2df, #0E37DF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0ec2df, #190EDF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0ec2df;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0ec2df;
caret-color: #0ec2df;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0ec2df;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FAFD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0ec2df;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0ec2df 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0ec2df 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(14, 194, 223, 0.5)
rgb(14 194 223 / 50%)
#0ec2df80
hsl(188 88% 47% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0ec2df 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0ec2df1a#E7F9FC
20%#0ec2df33#CFF3F9
40%#0ec2df66#9FE7F2
60%#0ec2df99#6EDAEC
80%#0ec2dfcc#3ECEE5

Gradients from #0ec2df

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, #38D9F3, #0ec2df 45%, #086878);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0ec2df, #0C21C2);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0ec2df, #DF2B0E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #55DEF4 0%, #0ec2df 45%, #086878 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAFA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #2EF29B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1B57F1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #086878 0%, transparent 65%), #0ec2df;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0ec2df

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.

#0ec2df in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 9.80:1.

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.

#0ec2df, answered

What color is #0ec2df?

#0ec2df is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Sky Blue (ΔE2000 8.8). It sits at 188° on the hue wheel with 88% saturation and 47% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0ec2df?

rgb(14, 194, 223) — 14 red, 194 green and 223 blue out of 255, or 5.5% / 76.1% / 87.5% by channel.

What is #0ec2df in HSL and HSV?

hsl(188, 88%, 47%) and hsv(188, 94%, 87%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0ec2df a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4400 and perceived brightness is 65%, so black text on it reaches 9.80:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0ec2df?

Black. It scores 9.80:1 against #0ec2df, versus 2.14:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #0ec2df accessible on a white background?

#0ec2df on white scores 2.14:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #097F92 to reach 4.5:1, or #076271 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #0ec2df?

#DF2B0E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #DF0E5A and #DF940E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0ec2df?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0E6ED for borders, #4B909B for secondary text, #E40922 as an accent and #086878 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0EDF94 and #0E5ADF stays calm, while #DF2B0E is the loudest partner.

What is #0ec2df in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(94%, 13%, 0%, 13%). 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 #0ec2df warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 91 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #0EDFAF; nudged cooler, #0C9CE2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0ec2df?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 3.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0ec2df as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0ec2df in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0ec2df] or text-[#0ec2df], 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 #0ec2df with 50% opacity?

rgba(14, 194, 223, 0.5), or #0ec2df80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #87E1EF; over black, #076170.

Is #0ec2df a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #00CCCC, ΔE2000 10.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0ec2df mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #0ec2df?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #38D9F3, #0ec2df 45%, #086878). For more colour, a short hue run to #0C21C2 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0ec2df in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0ec2df at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.