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#7be0fd

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

Token name suggestion: Linen Lagoon

RGB
123, 224, 253
HSL
193°, 97%, 74%
CMYK
51, 12, 0, 1
Luminance
0.6461

#7be0fd is a light electric cyan, 193° on the wheel and 93/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.92:1). As text it scores 1.51:1 on white — use #0380A4 instead. Nearest name is Sky Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(193 97% 74%)rgb(123 224 253)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7be0fd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7be0fd
Hue
193°
cyan
Saturation
97%
electric
Lightness
74%
light
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
80%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6461
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
93/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.92:1
Closest name
Sky Blue
ΔE2000 5.2
Chroma
31.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.856
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 11.9
Web-safe
#66CCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue193° of 360°
Saturation97%
Lightness74%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7be0fd.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool93% 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
Red7%
Green83%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#7be0fd
HEX (8-digit)#7be0fdff
RGBrgb(123, 224, 253)
RGBArgba(123, 224, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(193, 97%, 74%)
HSV / HSBhsv(193, 51%, 99%)
HWBhwb(193 48% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(51%, 12%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(84.3 -21.9 -23.2)
LCHlch(84.3 31.9 226.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.856 0.103 218.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(52.55, 64.61, 102.61)
Decimal8118525
Display P3color(display-p3 0.482 0.878 0.992)
Web-safe#66CCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7be0fd;
background-color: #7be0fd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7be0fd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7be0fd] bg-[#7be0fd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7be0fd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.482, green: 0.878, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.482, green: 0.878, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7BE0FD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7BE0FD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7BE0FD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 224, 123)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(123, 224, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(123, 224, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 123, 224, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4824f, 0.8784f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{123,224,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7be0fd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7be0fd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#02627E, #D3E8EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7be0fd 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: #F1FBFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F6FC;
  --brand-200: #C1EEFB;
  --brand-300: #7be0fd;
  --brand-400: #59D8FC;
  --brand-500: #22CBFC;
  --brand-600: #04BCF1;
  --brand-700: #039DC9;
  --brand-800: #027DA1;
  --brand-900: #075B74;
  --brand-950: #043948;
  --brand: #7be0fd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E3ED;
  --brand-hover: #58D8FC;
  --brand-pressed: #35CFFC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142124;
    --brand-ink: #D3E8EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FBFD',
        100: '#E4F6FC',
        200: '#C1EEFB',
        300: '#7be0fd',
        400: '#59D8FC',
        500: '#22CBFC',
        600: '#04BCF1',
        700: '#039DC9',
        800: '#027DA1',
        900: '#075B74',
        950: '#043948',
        DEFAULT: '#7be0fd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FBFD,
  '100': #E4F6FC,
  '200': #C1EEFB,
  '300': #7be0fd,
  '400': #59D8FC,
  '500': #22CBFC,
  '600': #04BCF1,
  '700': #039DC9,
  '800': #027DA1,
  '900': #075B74,
  '950': #043948,
);
$brand-base: #7be0fd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FBFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F6FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1EEFB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#7be0fd", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#59D8FC", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#22CBFC", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#04BCF1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#039DC9", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#027DA1", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#075B74", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#043948", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7be0fd · 13.92:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.51:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.92:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7be0fd as text scores 1.51:1 on white and 13.92:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #02627E at 4.56:1.

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
#0380A4 · 4.54:1
AA on white−41% L
#0380A4
The quick fox
#025D77 · 7.41:1
AAA on white−50% L
#025D77
The quick fox
#7be0fd · 13.92:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7be0fd
The quick fox
#7be0fd · 13.92:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7be0fd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #039FCC 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
#7be0fd on white: 1.51:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7be0fd on black: 13.92:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7be0fd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7be0fd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.51:1AaAa
Slate 501.44:1AaAa
Slate 1001.38:1AaAa
Slate 2001.22:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.70:1AaAa
Slate 5003.16:1AaAa
Slate 6005.02:1AaAa
Slate 7006.87:1AaAa
Slate 8009.70:1AaAa
Slate 90011.84:1AaAa
Black13.92:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CDDBFF
deuteranopia · #BACCFD
tritanopia · #22EAE9

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. #7be0fd is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FBFD
#E4F6FC
#C1EEFB
#7be0fd
#59D8FC
#22CBFC
#04BCF1
#039DC9
#027DA1
#075B74
#043948
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F1FBFDDarkest = 950 · #043948Text 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 0.026 218.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.041 218.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.062 218.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.080 218.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.094 218.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.103 218.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.103 218.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.096 218.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.086 218.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.072 218.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.056 218.7);
}

Colors that work with #7be0fd

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#C0E3ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B899B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC0004
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#02627E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6F9FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142124
Dark-mode background
Hover#58D8FC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#35CFFC
Two steps down
Disabled#F2F5F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#8DE6FF
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 #7be0fd

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 #02627E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #039FCC

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
  • Weight26/100
  • 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#FD987B
Analogous left#7BFDD9
Analogous right#7B9FFD
Split-complement 1#FD7B9F
Split-complement 2#FDD97B
Triadic 1#FD7BE0
Triadic 2#E0FD7B
Tetradic#D97BFD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°193°

#7be0fd sits at 193°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red48.2%
Green87.8%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
123
0x7b
G · 0–255
224
0xe0
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan51.4%
Magenta11.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 64%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7be0fd text on a black background

contrast 13.92:1

Card sample

#7be0fd text on a white background

contrast 1.51:1

Card sample

#7be0fd on grey

1.38:1

#7be0fd on its own surface

1.42:1

#7be0fd on its dark surface

10.94:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7be0fd;
Background color
Panel with #7be0fd background
background-color: #7be0fd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7be0fd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(123, 224, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(123, 224, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7be0fd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7be0fd, #7B89FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7be0fd, #8D7BFD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7be0fd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7be0fd;
caret-color: #7be0fd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7be0fd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6F9FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7be0fd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7be0fd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7be0fd 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(123, 224, 253, 0.5)
rgb(123 224 253 / 50%)
#7be0fd80
hsl(193 97% 74% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7be0fd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7be0fd1a#F2FCFF
20%#7be0fd33#E5F9FF
40%#7be0fd66#CAF3FE
60%#7be0fd99#B0ECFE
80%#7be0fdcc#95E6FD

Gradients from #7be0fd

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, #B7EEFE, #7be0fd 45%, #02627E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7be0fd, #5D61FD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7be0fd, #FD987B);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D5F5FE 0%, #7be0fd 45%, #02627E 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%, #ADFEE1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #99ACFD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #02627E 0%, transparent 65%), #7be0fd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7be0fd

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.

#7be0fd 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 13.92:1.

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.

#7be0fd, answered

What color is #7be0fd?

#7be0fd is a light electric cyan, closest to Sky Blue (ΔE2000 5.2). It sits at 193° on the hue wheel with 97% saturation and 74% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7be0fd?

rgb(123, 224, 253) — 123 red, 224 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 48.2% / 87.8% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #7be0fd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(193, 97%, 74%) and hsv(193, 51%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7be0fd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6461 and perceived brightness is 80%, so black text on it reaches 13.92:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7be0fd?

Black. It scores 13.92:1 against #7be0fd, versus 1.51:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7be0fd accessible on a white background?

#7be0fd on white scores 1.51:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0380A4 to reach 4.5:1, or #025D77 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7be0fd?

#FD987B sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FD7B9F and #FDD97B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7be0fd?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E3ED for borders, #4B899B for secondary text, #CC0004 as an accent and #02627E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7BFDD9 and #7B9FFD stays calm, while #FD987B is the loudest partner.

What is #7be0fd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(51%, 12%, 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 #7be0fd warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 93 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7BFDEA; nudged cooler, #7AC9FE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7be0fd?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 11.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7be0fd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7be0fd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7be0fd] or text-[#7be0fd], 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 #7be0fd with 50% opacity?

rgba(123, 224, 253, 0.5), or #7be0fd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BDF0FE; over black, #3E707F.

Is #7be0fd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CCFF, ΔE2000 7.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7be0fd 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 #7be0fd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B7EEFE, #7be0fd 45%, #02627E). For more colour, a short hue run to #5D61FD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7be0fd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7be0fd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.