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cyan · cool

#2fd1f8

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

Token name suggestion: True Glacier

RGB
47, 209, 248
HSL
192°, 94%, 58%
CMYK
81, 16, 0, 3
Luminance
0.5298

#2fd1f8 is a balanced electric cyan, 192° on the wheel and 92/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.60:1). As text it scores 1.81:1 on white — use #05809D instead. Nearest name is Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(192 94% 58%)rgb(47 209 248)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #2fd1f8 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#2fd1f8
Hue
192°
cyan
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
58%
balanced
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
72%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5298
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
92/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.60:1
Closest name
Sky Blue
ΔE2000 6.5
Chroma
40.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.798
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 7.5
Web-safe
#33CCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue192° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness58%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #2fd1f8.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool92% 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
Red1%
Green86%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#2fd1f8
HEX (8-digit)#2fd1f8ff
RGBrgb(47, 209, 248)
RGBArgba(47, 209, 248, 1)
HSLhsl(192, 94%, 58%)
HSV / HSBhsv(192, 81%, 97%)
HWBhwb(192 18% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(81%, 16%, 0%, 3%)
LABlab(77.9 -27.1 -30.5)
LCHlch(77.9 40.8 228.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.798 0.136 219.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(40.91, 52.98, 96.86)
Decimal3133944
Display P3color(display-p3 0.184 0.820 0.973)
Web-safe#33CCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #2fd1f8;
background-color: #2fd1f8;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #2fd1f8;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#2fd1f8] bg-[#2fd1f8]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #2fd1f8;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.184, green: 0.820, blue: 0.973)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.184, green: 0.820, blue: 0.973, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#2FD1F8</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF2FD1F8)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF2FD1F8)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(248, 209, 47)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(47, 209, 248)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(47, 209, 248)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 47, 209, 248)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1843f, 0.8196f, 0.9725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{47,209,248}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #2fd1f8 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #2fd1f8 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#04647B, #D3E9EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #2fd1f8 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: #E4F7FB;
  --brand-200: #C2EFFA;
  --brand-300: #92E7FB;
  --brand-400: #5CDBFA;
  --brand-500: #2fd1f8;
  --brand-600: #08C1ED;
  --brand-700: #07A0C5;
  --brand-800: #05809E;
  --brand-900: #095D72;
  --brand-950: #053A47;
  --brand: #2fd1f8;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E4ED;
  --brand-hover: #0CC9F7;
  --brand-pressed: #07B0D8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142124;
    --brand-ink: #D3E9EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FBFD',
        100: '#E4F7FB',
        200: '#C2EFFA',
        300: '#92E7FB',
        400: '#5CDBFA',
        500: '#2fd1f8',
        600: '#08C1ED',
        700: '#07A0C5',
        800: '#05809E',
        900: '#095D72',
        950: '#053A47',
        DEFAULT: '#2fd1f8',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FBFD,
  '100': #E4F7FB,
  '200': #C2EFFA,
  '300': #92E7FB,
  '400': #5CDBFA,
  '500': #2fd1f8,
  '600': #08C1ED,
  '700': #07A0C5,
  '800': #05809E,
  '900': #095D72,
  '950': #053A47,
);
$brand-base: #2fd1f8;
$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": "#E4F7FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2EFFA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92E7FB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CDBFA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2fd1f8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08C1ED", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#07A0C5", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#05809E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#095D72", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#053A47", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #2fd1f8 · 11.60:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.81:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.60:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #2fd1f8 as text scores 1.81:1 on white and 11.60:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #04647B at 3.72:1.

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
#05809D · 4.58:1
AA on white−26% L
#05809D
The quick fox
#045F75 · 7.24:1
AAA on white−34% L
#045F75
The quick fox
#2fd1f8 · 11.60:1
AA on blackalready passes
#2fd1f8
The quick fox
#2fd1f8 · 11.60:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#2fd1f8

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #07A0C4 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
#2fd1f8 on white: 1.81:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#2fd1f8 on black: 11.60:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #2fd1f8 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #2fd1f8.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.81:1AaAa
Slate 501.73:1AaAa
Slate 1001.65:1AaAa
Slate 2001.47:1AaAa
Slate 3001.22:1AaAa
Slate 4001.42:1AaAa
Slate 5002.63:1AaAa
Slate 6004.18:1AaAa
Slate 7005.72:1AaAa
Slate 8008.08:1AaAa
Slate 9009.86:1AaAa
Black11.60:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B9CBFA
deuteranopia · #9FB8F8
tritanopia · #00DEDD

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. #2fd1f8 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FBFD
#E4F7FB
#C2EFFA
#92E7FB
#5CDBFA
#2fd1f8
#08C1ED
#07A0C5
#05809E
#095D72
#053A47
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F2FBFDDarkest = 950 · #053A47Text step on white = 800
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 0.034 219.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 219.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.081 219.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.106 219.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.125 219.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.136 219.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.136 219.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.127 219.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.114 219.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.095 219.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 219.1);
}

Colors that work with #2fd1f8

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#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E4ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B8B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#FC2A36
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#04647B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FAFE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142124
Dark-mode background
Hover#0CC9F7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#07B0D8
Two steps down
Disabled#C0D2D7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#3CD9FF
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
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #2fd1f8

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 #04647B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #07A0C4

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
  • Weight42/100
  • 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#F8562F
Analogous left#2FF8BA
Analogous right#2F6CF8
Split-complement 1#F82F6C
Split-complement 2#F8BA2F
Triadic 1#F82FD1
Triadic 2#D1F82F
Tetradic#BA2FF8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°192°

#2fd1f8 sits at 192°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red18.4%
Green82.0%
Blue97.3%
R · 0–255
47
0x2f
G · 0–255
209
0xd1
B · 0–255
248
0xf8

CMYK percentages

Cyan81.0%
Magenta15.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)2.7%

Total ink coverage is 99%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#2fd1f8 text on a black background

contrast 11.60:1

Card sample

#2fd1f8 text on a white background

contrast 1.81:1

Card sample

#2fd1f8 on grey

1.65:1

#2fd1f8 on its own surface

1.71:1

#2fd1f8 on its dark surface

9.11:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #2fd1f8;
Background color
Panel with #2fd1f8 background
background-color: #2fd1f8;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #2fd1f8;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(47, 209, 248, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(47, 209, 248, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #2fd1f8;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2fd1f8, #2F4BF8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2fd1f8, #452FF8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #2fd1f8;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #2fd1f8;
caret-color: #2fd1f8;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #2fd1f8;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FAFE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #2fd1f8;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#2fd1f8 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #2fd1f8 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(47, 209, 248, 0.5)
rgb(47 209 248 / 50%)
#2fd1f880
hsl(192 94% 58% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #2fd1f8 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#2fd1f81a#EAFAFE
20%#2fd1f833#D5F6FE
40%#2fd1f866#ACEDFC
60%#2fd1f899#82E3FB
80%#2fd1f8cc#59DAF9

Gradients from #2fd1f8

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, #6ADEFA, #2fd1f8 45%, #04647B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #2fd1f8, #111EF7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2fd1f8, #F8562F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #88E5FB 0%, #2fd1f8 45%, #04647B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F9FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #60FABE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #4C73F9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #04647B 0%, transparent 65%), #2fd1f8;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #2fd1f8

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.

#2fd1f8 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 11.60:1.

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.

#2fd1f8, answered

What color is #2fd1f8?

#2fd1f8 is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Sky Blue (ΔE2000 6.5). It sits at 192° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 58% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #2fd1f8?

rgb(47, 209, 248) — 47 red, 209 green and 248 blue out of 255, or 18.4% / 82% / 97.3% by channel.

What is #2fd1f8 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(192, 94%, 58%) and hsv(192, 81%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #2fd1f8 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5298 and perceived brightness is 72%, so black text on it reaches 11.60:1.

Should I use black or white text on #2fd1f8?

Black. It scores 11.60:1 against #2fd1f8, versus 1.81:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #2fd1f8 accessible on a white background?

#2fd1f8 on white scores 1.81:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #05809D to reach 4.5:1, or #045F75 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #2fd1f8?

#F8562F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F82F6C and #F8BA2F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #2fd1f8?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E4ED for borders, #4B8B9B for secondary text, #FC2A36 as an accent and #04647B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2FF8BA and #2F6CF8 stays calm, while #F8562F is the loudest partner.

What is #2fd1f8 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(81%, 16%, 0%, 3%). 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 #2fd1f8 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 92 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #2FF8D5; nudged cooler, #2DB1FA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #2fd1f8?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 7.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #2fd1f8 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #2fd1f8 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#2fd1f8] or text-[#2fd1f8], 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 #2fd1f8 with 50% opacity?

rgba(47, 209, 248, 0.5), or #2fd1f880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #97E8FC; over black, #18697C.

Is #2fd1f8 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CCFF, ΔE2000 3.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #2fd1f8 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 #2fd1f8?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #6ADEFA, #2fd1f8 45%, #04647B). For more colour, a short hue run to #111EF7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #2fd1f8 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #2fd1f8 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.