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cyan · cool

#62cffc

a light, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Light Sky Blue

Token name suggestion: Morning Teal

RGB
98, 207, 252
HSL
198°, 96%, 69%
CMYK
61, 18, 0, 1
Luminance
0.5425

#62cffc is a light electric cyan, 198° on the wheel and 95/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.85:1). As text it scores 1.77:1 on white — use #037CAD instead. Nearest name is Light Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(198 96% 69%)rgb(98 207 252)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #62cffc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#62cffc
Hue
198°
cyan
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
74%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5425
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
95/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
11.85:1
Closest name
Light Sky Blue
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
36.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.808
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 9.7
Web-safe
#66CCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue198° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #62cffc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool95% 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
Red5%
Green82%
Blue13%

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

Every format

HEX#62cffc
HEX (8-digit)#62cffcff
RGBrgb(98, 207, 252)
RGBArgba(98, 207, 252, 1)
HSLhsl(198, 96%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(198, 61%, 99%)
HWBhwb(198 38% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(61%, 18%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(78.6 -18.3 -31.4)
LCHlch(78.6 36.4 239.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.808 0.118 228.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(44.91, 54.25, 100.18)
Decimal6475772
Display P3color(display-p3 0.384 0.812 0.988)
Web-safe#66CCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #62cffc;
background-color: #62cffc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #62cffc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#62cffc] bg-[#62cffc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #62cffc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.384, green: 0.812, blue: 0.988)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.384, green: 0.812, blue: 0.988, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#62CFFC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF62CFFC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF62CFFC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(252, 207, 98)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(98, 207, 252)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(98, 207, 252)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 98, 207, 252)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3843f, 0.8118f, 0.9882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{98,207,252}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #62cffc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #62cffc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#02597D, #D3E6EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #62cffc 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: #F1FAFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F5FC;
  --brand-200: #C1EAFA;
  --brand-300: #91DDFD;
  --brand-400: #62cffc;
  --brand-500: #23BCFB;
  --brand-600: #05ACF0;
  --brand-700: #048FC8;
  --brand-800: #0372A0;
  --brand-900: #075473;
  --brand-950: #043448;
  --brand: #62cffc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E0ED;
  --brand-hover: #3FC4FB;
  --brand-pressed: #1CBAFB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142024;
    --brand-ink: #D3E6EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FAFD',
        100: '#E4F5FC',
        200: '#C1EAFA',
        300: '#91DDFD',
        400: '#62cffc',
        500: '#23BCFB',
        600: '#05ACF0',
        700: '#048FC8',
        800: '#0372A0',
        900: '#075473',
        950: '#043448',
        DEFAULT: '#62cffc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FAFD,
  '100': #E4F5FC,
  '200': #C1EAFA,
  '300': #91DDFD,
  '400': #62cffc,
  '500': #23BCFB,
  '600': #05ACF0,
  '700': #048FC8,
  '800': #0372A0,
  '900': #075473,
  '950': #043448,
);
$brand-base: #62cffc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FAFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F5FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1EAFA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#91DDFD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#62cffc", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#23BCFB", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#05ACF0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#048FC8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0372A0", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#075473", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#043448", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #62cffc · 11.85:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.77:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.85:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #62cffc as text scores 1.77:1 on white and 11.85:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #02597D at 4.34:1.

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
#037CAD · 4.68:1
AA on white−34% L
#037CAD
The quick fox
#035F85 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−42% L
#035F85
The quick fox
#62cffc · 11.85:1
AA on blackalready passes
#62cffc
The quick fox
#62cffc · 11.85:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#62cffc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #049CDA 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
#62cffc on white: 1.77:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#62cffc on black: 11.85:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #62cffc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #62cffc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.77:1AaAa
Slate 501.69:1AaAa
Slate 1001.62:1AaAa
Slate 2001.44:1AaAa
Slate 3001.19:1AaAa
Slate 4001.45:1AaAa
Slate 5002.69:1AaAa
Slate 6004.28:1AaAa
Slate 7005.84:1AaAa
Slate 8008.25:1AaAa
Slate 90010.07:1AaAa
Black11.85:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B7CCFE
deuteranopia · #A2BCFB
tritanopia · #00DCDE

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. #62cffc is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FAFD
#E4F5FC
#C1EAFA
#91DDFD
#62cffc
#23BCFB
#05ACF0
#048FC8
#0372A0
#075473
#043448
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F1FAFDDarkest = 950 · #043448Text 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 0.029 228.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.047 228.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.071 228.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.092 228.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.109 228.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.118 228.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.118 228.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.111 228.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.099 228.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.083 228.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.065 228.0);
}

Colors that work with #62cffc

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#C0E0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B839B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC0900
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#02597D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6F7FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142024
Dark-mode background
Hover#3FC4FB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#1CBAFB
Two steps down
Disabled#E2E9EC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#73D6FF
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 #62cffc

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White text placed on it
  • 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 #02597D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #049CDA

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#FC8F62
Analogous left#62FCDC
Analogous right#6282FC
Split-complement 1#FC6282
Split-complement 2#FCDC62
Triadic 1#FC62CF
Triadic 2#CFFC62
Tetradic#DC62FC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°198°

#62cffc sits at 198°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.4%
Green81.2%
Blue98.8%
R · 0–255
98
0x62
G · 0–255
207
0xcf
B · 0–255
252
0xfc

CMYK percentages

Cyan61.1%
Magenta17.9%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 80%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#62cffc text on a black background

contrast 11.85:1

Card sample

#62cffc text on a white background

contrast 1.77:1

Card sample

#62cffc on grey

1.62:1

#62cffc on its own surface

1.67:1

#62cffc on its dark surface

9.39:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #62cffc;
Background color
Panel with #62cffc background
background-color: #62cffc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #62cffc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(98, 207, 252, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(98, 207, 252, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #62cffc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #62cffc, #6268FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62cffc, #8262FC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #62cffc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #62cffc;
caret-color: #62cffc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #62cffc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6F7FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #62cffc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#62cffc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #62cffc 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(98, 207, 252, 0.5)
rgb(98 207 252 / 50%)
#62cffc80
hsl(198 96% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #62cffc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#62cffc1a#EFFAFF
20%#62cffc33#E0F5FE
40%#62cffc66#C0ECFE
60%#62cffc99#A1E2FD
80%#62cffccc#81D9FD

Gradients from #62cffc

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, #9EE1FD, #62cffc 45%, #02597D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #62cffc, #4B44FB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62cffc, #FC8F62);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BCEBFE 0%, #62cffc 45%, #02597D 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%, #94FDDE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #808FFD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #02597D 0%, transparent 65%), #62cffc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #62cffc

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.

#62cffc 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 11.85:1.

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.

#62cffc, answered

What color is #62cffc?

#62cffc is a light electric cyan, closest to Light Sky Blue (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 198° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #62cffc?

rgb(98, 207, 252) — 98 red, 207 green and 252 blue out of 255, or 38.4% / 81.2% / 98.8% by channel.

What is #62cffc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(198, 96%, 69%) and hsv(198, 61%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #62cffc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5425 and perceived brightness is 74%, so black text on it reaches 11.85:1.

Should I use black or white text on #62cffc?

Black. It scores 11.85:1 against #62cffc, versus 1.77:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #62cffc accessible on a white background?

#62cffc on white scores 1.77:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #037CAD to reach 4.5:1, or #035F85 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #62cffc?

#FC8F62 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FC6282 and #FCDC62, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #62cffc?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E0ED for borders, #4B839B for secondary text, #CC0900 as an accent and #02597D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #62FCDC and #6282FC stays calm, while #FC8F62 is the loudest partner.

What is #62cffc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(61%, 18%, 0%, 1%). 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 #62cffc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 95 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #62FCF0; nudged cooler, #60BBFE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #62cffc?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 9.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #62cffc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #62cffc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#62cffc] or text-[#62cffc], 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 #62cffc with 50% opacity?

rgba(98, 207, 252, 0.5), or #62cffc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B1E7FE; over black, #31687E.

Is #62cffc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CCFF, ΔE2000 2.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #62cffc 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 #62cffc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9EE1FD, #62cffc 45%, #02597D). For more colour, a short hue run to #4B44FB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #62cffc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #62cffc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.