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#beecf2

a light, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Powder Blue

Token name suggestion: Drift Lagoon

RGB
190, 236, 242
HSL
187°, 67%, 85%
CMYK
22, 3, 0, 5
Luminance
0.7735

#beecf2 is a light vivid cyan, 187° on the wheel and 90/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.47:1). As text it scores 1.28:1 on white — use #1D828F instead. Nearest name is Powder Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(187 67% 85%)rgb(190 236 242)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #beecf2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#beecf2
Hue
187°
cyan
Saturation
67%
vivid
Lightness
85%
light
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7735
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
90/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.47:1
Closest name
Powder Blue
ΔE2000 2.8
Chroma
15.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.913
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 18.9
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue187° of 360°
Saturation67%
Lightness85%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #beecf2.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool90% 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
Red14%
Green78%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#beecf2
HEX (8-digit)#beecf2ff
RGBrgb(190, 236, 242)
RGBArgba(190, 236, 242, 1)
HSLhsl(187, 67%, 85%)
HSV / HSBhsv(187, 21%, 95%)
HWBhwb(187 75% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(22%, 3%, 0%, 5%)
LABlab(90.5 -13.4 -7.8)
LCHlch(90.5 15.5 210.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.913 0.048 206.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(67.25, 77.35, 95.37)
Decimal12512498
Display P3color(display-p3 0.745 0.925 0.949)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #beecf2;
background-color: #beecf2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #beecf2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#beecf2] bg-[#beecf2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #beecf2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.745, green: 0.925, blue: 0.949)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.745, green: 0.925, blue: 0.949, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BEECF2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBEECF2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBEECF2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(242, 236, 190)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(190, 236, 242)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(190, 236, 242)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 190, 236, 242)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7451f, 0.9255f, 0.9490f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{190,236,242}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #beecf2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #beecf2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#15606A, #D3EBEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #beecf2 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: #F3FAFB;
  --brand-100: #E8F6F8;
  --brand-200: #beecf2;
  --brand-300: #A1E4EC;
  --brand-400: #73D6E3;
  --brand-500: #44C8DA;
  --brand-600: #29B9CC;
  --brand-700: #229AAA;
  --brand-800: #1B7C88;
  --brand-900: #185A63;
  --brand-950: #0F383E;
  --brand: #beecf2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0E7ED;
  --brand-hover: #A0E3EC;
  --brand-pressed: #82DBE6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142324;
    --brand-ink: #D3EBEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FAFB',
        100: '#E8F6F8',
        200: '#beecf2',
        300: '#A1E4EC',
        400: '#73D6E3',
        500: '#44C8DA',
        600: '#29B9CC',
        700: '#229AAA',
        800: '#1B7C88',
        900: '#185A63',
        950: '#0F383E',
        DEFAULT: '#beecf2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FAFB,
  '100': #E8F6F8,
  '200': #beecf2,
  '300': #A1E4EC,
  '400': #73D6E3,
  '500': #44C8DA,
  '600': #29B9CC,
  '700': #229AAA,
  '800': #1B7C88,
  '900': #185A63,
  '950': #0F383E,
);
$brand-base: #beecf2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FAFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F6F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#beecf2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A1E4EC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#73D6E3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#44C8DA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#29B9CC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#229AAA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1B7C88", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#185A63", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F383E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #beecf2 · 16.47:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.28:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.47:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #beecf2 as text scores 1.28:1 on white and 16.47:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #15606A at 5.65:1.

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
#1D828F · 4.52:1
AA on white−51% L
#1D828F
The quick fox
#155F69 · 7.31:1
AAA on white−60% L
#155F69
The quick fox
#beecf2 · 16.47:1
AA on blackalready passes
#beecf2
The quick fox
#beecf2 · 16.47:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#beecf2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #23A1B1 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
#beecf2 on white: 1.28:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#beecf2 on black: 16.47:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #beecf2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #beecf2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.28:1AaAa
Slate 501.22:1AaAa
Slate 1001.16:1AaAa
Slate 2001.03:1AaAa
Slate 3001.16:1AaAa
Slate 4002.01:1AaAa
Slate 5003.73:1AaAa
Slate 6005.94:1AaAa
Slate 7008.12:1AaAa
Slate 80011.47:1AaAa
Slate 90014.00:1AaAa
Black16.47:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E4E8F2
deuteranopia · #DBE1F2
tritanopia · #AEF0EE

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. #beecf2 is pinned to step 200; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FAFB
#E8F6F8
#beecf2
#A1E4EC
#73D6E3
#44C8DA
#29B9CC
#229AAA
#1B7C88
#185A63
#0F383E
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F3FAFBDarkest = 950 · #0F383EText 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 0.012 206.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.019 206.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.029 206.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.037 206.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.044 206.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.048 206.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.048 206.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.045 206.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.040 206.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.034 206.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.026 206.1);
}

Colors that work with #beecf2

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#C0E7ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B929B
Captions on the surface
Accent#AF1D32
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#15606A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAF9FB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142324
Dark-mode background
Hover#A0E3EC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#82DBE6
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CCF3F8
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 #beecf2

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 #15606A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #23A1B1

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight15/100
  • 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#F2C4BE
Analogous left#BEF2DE
Analogous right#BED2F2
Split-complement 1#F2BED2
Split-complement 2#F2DEBE
Triadic 1#F2BEEC
Triadic 2#ECF2BE
Tetradic#DEBEF2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°187°

#beecf2 sits at 187°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.5%
Green92.5%
Blue94.9%
R · 0–255
190
0xbe
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
242
0xf2

CMYK percentages

Cyan21.5%
Magenta2.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 29%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#beecf2 text on a black background

contrast 16.47:1

Card sample

#beecf2 text on a white background

contrast 1.28:1

Card sample

#beecf2 on grey

1.16:1

#beecf2 on its own surface

1.21:1

#beecf2 on its dark surface

12.71:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #beecf2;
Background color
Panel with #beecf2 background
background-color: #beecf2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #beecf2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(190, 236, 242, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(190, 236, 242, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #beecf2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #beecf2, #BEC9F2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #beecf2, #C0BEF2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #beecf2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #beecf2;
caret-color: #beecf2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #beecf2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAF9FB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #beecf2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#beecf2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #beecf2 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(190, 236, 242, 0.5)
rgb(190 236 242 / 50%)
#beecf280
hsl(187 67% 85% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #beecf2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#beecf21a#F9FDFE
20%#beecf233#F2FBFC
40%#beecf266#E5F7FA
60%#beecf299#D8F4F7
80%#beecf2cc#CBF0F5

Gradients from #beecf2

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, #EEFAFC, #beecf2 45%, #15606A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #beecf2, #A4AEED);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #beecf2, #F2C4BE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FBFC 0%, #beecf2 45%, #15606A 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%, #E8FAF2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D7E1F7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #15606A 0%, transparent 65%), #beecf2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #beecf2

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.

#beecf2 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 16.47:1.

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.

#beecf2, answered

What color is #beecf2?

#beecf2 is a light vivid cyan, closest to Powder Blue (ΔE2000 2.8). It sits at 187° on the hue wheel with 67% saturation and 85% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #beecf2?

rgb(190, 236, 242) — 190 red, 236 green and 242 blue out of 255, or 74.5% / 92.5% / 94.9% by channel.

What is #beecf2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(187, 67%, 85%) and hsv(187, 21%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #beecf2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7735 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 16.47:1.

Should I use black or white text on #beecf2?

Black. It scores 16.47:1 against #beecf2, versus 1.28:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #beecf2 accessible on a white background?

#beecf2 on white scores 1.28:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1D828F to reach 4.5:1, or #155F69 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #beecf2?

#F2C4BE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F2BED2 and #F2DEBE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #beecf2?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0E7ED for borders, #4B929B for secondary text, #AF1D32 as an accent and #15606A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BEF2DE and #BED2F2 stays calm, while #F2C4BE is the loudest partner.

What is #beecf2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(22%, 3%, 0%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #beecf2 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 90 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BEF2E5; nudged cooler, #BDDBF3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #beecf2?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 18.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #beecf2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #beecf2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#beecf2] or text-[#beecf2], 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 #beecf2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(190, 236, 242, 0.5), or #beecf280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DFF6F9; over black, #5F7679.

Is #beecf2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 4.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #beecf2 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 #beecf2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEFAFC, #beecf2 45%, #15606A). For more colour, a short hue run to #A4AEED keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #beecf2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #beecf2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.