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#95feef

a light, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Cyan

Token name suggestion: Meadow Reef

RGB
149, 254, 239
HSL
171°, 98%, 79%
CMYK
41, 0, 6, 0
Luminance
0.8351

#95feef is a light electric cyan, 171° on the wheel and 84/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.70:1). As text it scores 1.19:1 on white — use #018371 instead. Nearest name is Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(171 98% 79%)rgb(149 254 239)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #95feef is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#95feef
Hue
171°
cyan
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
79%
light
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8351
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
84/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.70:1
Closest name
Cyan
ΔE2000 8
Chroma
34.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.929
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 18.1
Web-safe
#99FFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue171° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness79%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #95feef.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool84% 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
Red8%
Green85%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#95feef
HEX (8-digit)#95feefff
RGBrgb(149, 254, 239)
RGBArgba(149, 254, 239, 1)
HSLhsl(171, 98%, 79%)
HSV / HSBhsv(171, 41%, 100%)
HWBhwb(171 58% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(41%, 0%, 6%, 0%)
LABlab(93.2 -33.9 -2.4)
LCHlch(93.2 34.0 184.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.929 0.101 184.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(63.41, 83.50, 94.42)
Decimal9830127
Display P3color(display-p3 0.584 0.996 0.937)
Web-safe#99FFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #95feef;
background-color: #95feef;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #95feef;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#95feef] bg-[#95feef]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #95feef;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.584, green: 0.996, blue: 0.937)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.584, green: 0.996, blue: 0.937, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#95FEEF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF95FEEF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF95FEEF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(239, 254, 149)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(149, 254, 239)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(149, 254, 239)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 149, 254, 239)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5843f, 0.9961f, 0.9373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{149,254,239}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #95feef 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #95feef 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#017E6C, #D3EEEA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #95feef 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: #F1FDFC;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF8;
  --brand-200: #C1FBF3;
  --brand-300: #95feef;
  --brand-400: #58FDE6;
  --brand-500: #21FDDD;
  --brand-600: #02F2D0;
  --brand-700: #02CAAD;
  --brand-800: #02A28B;
  --brand-900: #067465;
  --brand-950: #04493F;
  --brand: #95feef;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE6;
  --brand-hover: #72FEEA;
  --brand-pressed: #4EFDE4;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDFC',
        100: '#E3FCF8',
        200: '#C1FBF3',
        300: '#95feef',
        400: '#58FDE6',
        500: '#21FDDD',
        600: '#02F2D0',
        700: '#02CAAD',
        800: '#02A28B',
        900: '#067465',
        950: '#04493F',
        DEFAULT: '#95feef',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDFC,
  '100': #E3FCF8,
  '200': #C1FBF3,
  '300': #95feef,
  '400': #58FDE6,
  '500': #21FDDD,
  '600': #02F2D0,
  '700': #02CAAD,
  '800': #02A28B,
  '900': #067465,
  '950': #04493F,
);
$brand-base: #95feef;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDFC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1FBF3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#95feef", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#58FDE6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#21FDDD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#02F2D0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#02CAAD", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#02A28B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#067465", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#04493F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #95feef · 17.70:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.19:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.70:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #95feef as text scores 1.19:1 on white and 17.70:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #017E6C at 4.21:1.

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
#018371 · 4.68:1
AA on white−53% L
#018371
The quick fox
#016557 · 7.00:1
AAA on white−59% L
#016557
The quick fox
#95feef · 17.70:1
AA on blackalready passes
#95feef
The quick fox
#95feef · 17.70:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#95feef

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02A78F 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
#95feef on white: 1.19:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#95feef on black: 17.70:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #95feef as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #95feef.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.19:1AaAa
Slate 501.13:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4002.16:1AaAa
Slate 5004.01:1AaAa
Slate 6006.39:1AaAa
Slate 7008.73:1AaAa
Slate 80012.33:1AaAa
Slate 90015.05:1AaAa
Black17.70:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F5F3EF
deuteranopia · #E3E6F0
tritanopia · #6BFFF9

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. #95feef 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.

#F1FDFC
#E3FCF8
#C1FBF3
#95feef
#58FDE6
#21FDDD
#02F2D0
#02CAAD
#02A28B
#067465
#04493F
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F1FDFCDarkest = 950 · #04493FText 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 0.025 184.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 184.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.060 184.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.078 184.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.093 184.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.101 184.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.101 184.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.095 184.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.085 184.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.070 184.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.055 184.0);
}

Colors that work with #95feef

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#C0EDE6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8F
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC0050
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#017E6C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#72FEEA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4EFDE4
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#A8FFF3
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 #95feef

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 #017E6C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #02A78F

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
  • Weight21/100
  • 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#FE95A4
Analogous left#95FEBA
Analogous right#95D9FE
Split-complement 1#FE95D9
Split-complement 2#FEBA95
Triadic 1#EF95FE
Triadic 2#FEEF95
Tetradic#BA95FE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°171°

#95feef sits at 171°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red58.4%
Green99.6%
Blue93.7%
R · 0–255
149
0x95
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
239
0xef

CMYK percentages

Cyan41.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow5.9%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 48%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#95feef text on a black background

contrast 17.70:1

Card sample

#95feef text on a white background

contrast 1.19:1

Card sample

#95feef on grey

1.08:1

#95feef on its own surface

1.12:1

#95feef on its dark surface

13.56:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #95feef;
Background color
Panel with #95feef background
background-color: #95feef;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #95feef;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(149, 254, 239, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(149, 254, 239, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #95feef;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #95feef, #95C7FE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #95feef, #95ADFE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #95feef;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #95feef;
caret-color: #95feef;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #95feef;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #95feef;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#95feef 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #95feef 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(149, 254, 239, 0.5)
rgb(149 254 239 / 50%)
#95feef80
hsl(171 98% 79% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #95feef 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#95feef1a#F4FFFD
20%#95feef33#EAFFFC
40%#95feef66#D5FFF9
60%#95feef99#BFFEF5
80%#95feefcc#AAFEF2

Gradients from #95feef

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, #D2FFF8, #95feef 45%, #017E6C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #95feef, #77ACFE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #95feef, #FE95A4);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFFD 0%, #95feef 45%, #017E6C 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%, #C7FED6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #B3DDFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #017E6C 0%, transparent 65%), #95feef;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #95feef

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.

#95feef 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 17.70:1.

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.

#95feef, answered

What color is #95feef?

#95feef is a light electric cyan, closest to Cyan (ΔE2000 8). It sits at 171° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 79% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #95feef?

rgb(149, 254, 239) — 149 red, 254 green and 239 blue out of 255, or 58.4% / 99.6% / 93.7% by channel.

What is #95feef in HSL and HSV?

hsl(171, 98%, 79%) and hsv(171, 41%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #95feef a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8351 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 17.70:1.

Should I use black or white text on #95feef?

Black. It scores 17.70:1 against #95feef, versus 1.19:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #95feef accessible on a white background?

#95feef on white scores 1.19:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #018371 to reach 4.5:1, or #016557 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #95feef?

#FE95A4 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FE95D9 and #FEBA95, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #95feef?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE6 for borders, #4B9B8F for secondary text, #CC0050 as an accent and #017E6C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #95FEBA and #95D9FE stays calm, while #FE95A4 is the loudest partner.

What is #95feef in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(41%, 0%, 6%, 0%). 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 #95feef warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 84 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #95FEC8; nudged cooler, #94E7FF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #95feef?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 18.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #95feef as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #95feef in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#95feef] or text-[#95feef], 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 #95feef with 50% opacity?

rgba(149, 254, 239, 0.5), or #95feef80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #CAFFF7; over black, #4B7F78.

Is #95feef a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFFF, ΔE2000 5.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #95feef 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 #95feef?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #D2FFF8, #95feef 45%, #017E6C). For more colour, a short hue run to #77ACFE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #95feef in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #95feef at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.