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#d7dbfc

a pale, electric blue · cool · closest name: Lavender

Token name suggestion: Whisper Sapphire

RGB
215, 219, 252
HSL
234°, 86%, 92%
CMYK
15, 13, 0, 1
Luminance
0.7214

#d7dbfc is a pale electric blue, 234° on the wheel and 87/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.43:1). As text it scores 1.36:1 on white — use #5768F2 instead. Nearest name is Lavender, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(234 86% 92%)rgb(215 219 252)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d7dbfc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d7dbfc
Hue
234°
blue
Saturation
86%
electric
Lightness
92%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
87%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7214
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
87/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.43:1
Closest name
Lavender
ΔE2000 5.1
Chroma
17.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.899
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 28.2
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue234° of 360°
Saturation86%
Lightness92%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d7dbfc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool87% 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
Red20%
Green70%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#d7dbfc
HEX (8-digit)#d7dbfcff
RGBrgb(215, 219, 252)
RGBArgba(215, 219, 252, 1)
HSLhsl(234, 86%, 92%)
HSV / HSBhsv(234, 15%, 99%)
HWBhwb(234 84% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 13%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(88.0 5.1 -16.5)
LCHlch(88.0 17.3 287.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.899 0.045 280.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(70.92, 72.14, 102.26)
Decimal14146556
Display P3color(display-p3 0.843 0.859 0.988)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d7dbfc;
background-color: #d7dbfc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d7dbfc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d7dbfc] bg-[#d7dbfc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d7dbfc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.843, green: 0.859, blue: 0.988)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.843, green: 0.859, blue: 0.988, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D7DBFC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD7DBFC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD7DBFC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(252, 219, 215)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(215, 219, 252)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(215, 219, 252)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 215, 219, 252)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8431f, 0.8588f, 0.9882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{215,219,252}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d7dbfc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d7dbfc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#091577, #D3D6EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d7dbfc 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: #F2F3FD;
  --brand-100: #d7dbfc;
  --brand-200: #C5CAF7;
  --brand-300: #97A1F7;
  --brand-400: #6272F3;
  --brand-500: #2E43EF;
  --brand-600: #1128E4;
  --brand-700: #0E21BE;
  --brand-800: #0B1B98;
  --brand-900: #0D176E;
  --brand-950: #080F45;
  --brand: #d7dbfc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F5FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C5ED;
  --brand-hover: #B6BDFA;
  --brand-pressed: #959FF7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141524;
    --brand-ink: #D3D6EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2F3FD',
        100: '#d7dbfc',
        200: '#C5CAF7',
        300: '#97A1F7',
        400: '#6272F3',
        500: '#2E43EF',
        600: '#1128E4',
        700: '#0E21BE',
        800: '#0B1B98',
        900: '#0D176E',
        950: '#080F45',
        DEFAULT: '#d7dbfc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2F3FD,
  '100': #d7dbfc,
  '200': #C5CAF7,
  '300': #97A1F7,
  '400': #6272F3,
  '500': #2E43EF,
  '600': #1128E4,
  '700': #0E21BE,
  '800': #0B1B98,
  '900': #0D176E,
  '950': #080F45,
);
$brand-base: #d7dbfc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2F3FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#d7dbfc", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5CAF7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97A1F7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6272F3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2E43EF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1128E4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0E21BE", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0B1B98", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0D176E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#080F45", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d7dbfc · 15.43:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.36:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.43:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d7dbfc as text scores 1.36:1 on white and 15.43:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #091577 at 11.14:1.

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
#5768F2 · 4.50:1
AA on white−27% L
#5768F2
The quick fox
#2339EE · 7.26:1
AAA on white−38% L
#2339EE
The quick fox
#d7dbfc · 15.43:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d7dbfc
The quick fox
#d7dbfc · 15.43:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d7dbfc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7D8AF5 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
#d7dbfc on white: 1.36:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d7dbfc on black: 15.43:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d7dbfc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d7dbfc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.36:1AaAa
Slate 501.30:1AaAa
Slate 1001.24:1AaAa
Slate 2001.10:1AaAa
Slate 3001.09:1AaAa
Slate 4001.88:1AaAa
Slate 5003.50:1AaAa
Slate 6005.57:1AaAa
Slate 7007.61:1AaAa
Slate 80010.75:1AaAa
Slate 90013.12:1AaAa
Black15.43:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D3DEFE
deuteranopia · #D1DCFB
tritanopia · #CFE1E6

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. #d7dbfc is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2F3FD
#d7dbfc
#C5CAF7
#97A1F7
#6272F3
#2E43EF
#1128E4
#0E21BE
#0B1B98
#0D176E
#080F45
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F2F3FDDarkest = 950 · #080F45Text step on white = 500
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 0.011 280.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.018 280.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.027 280.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.035 280.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.042 280.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.045 280.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.045 280.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.043 280.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.038 280.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.032 280.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.025 280.0);
}

Colors that work with #d7dbfc

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#F4F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C5ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B539B
Captions on the surface
Accent#C38009
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#091577
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7EAFD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141524
Dark-mode background
Hover#B6BDFA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#959FF7
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D7DBFE
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 #d7dbfc

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
  • 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 #091577
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7D8AF5

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight8/100
  • 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#FCF8D7
Analogous left#D7EEFC
Analogous right#E6D7FC
Split-complement 1#FCE6D7
Split-complement 2#EEFCD7
Triadic 1#FCD7DB
Triadic 2#DBFCD7
Tetradic#FCD7EE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°234°

#d7dbfc sits at 234°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.3%
Green85.9%
Blue98.8%
R · 0–255
215
0xd7
G · 0–255
219
0xdb
B · 0–255
252
0xfc

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.7%
Magenta13.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)1.2%

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

Color previews

#d7dbfc text on a black background

contrast 15.43:1

Card sample

#d7dbfc text on a white background

contrast 1.36:1

Card sample

#d7dbfc on grey

1.24:1

#d7dbfc on its own surface

1.25:1

#d7dbfc on its dark surface

13.27:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d7dbfc;
Background color
Panel with #d7dbfc background
background-color: #d7dbfc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d7dbfc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(215, 219, 252, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(215, 219, 252, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d7dbfc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d7dbfc, #ECD7FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7dbfc, #F5D7FC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d7dbfc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d7dbfc;
caret-color: #d7dbfc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d7dbfc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7EAFD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d7dbfc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d7dbfc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d7dbfc 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(215, 219, 252, 0.5)
rgb(215 219 252 / 50%)
#d7dbfc80
hsl(234 86% 92% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d7dbfc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d7dbfc1a#FBFBFF
20%#d7dbfc33#F7F8FE
40%#d7dbfc66#EFF1FE
60%#d7dbfc99#E7E9FD
80%#d7dbfccc#DFE2FD

Gradients from #d7dbfc

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, #ECEEFE, #d7dbfc 45%, #091577);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d7dbfc, #E3BBFA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d7dbfc, #FCF8D7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1F2FE 0%, #d7dbfc 45%, #091577 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F5FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F9F4FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #091577 0%, transparent 65%), #d7dbfc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d7dbfc

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.

#d7dbfc in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
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 15.43:1.

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.

#d7dbfc, answered

What color is #d7dbfc?

#d7dbfc is a pale electric blue, closest to Lavender (ΔE2000 5.1). It sits at 234° on the hue wheel with 86% saturation and 92% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d7dbfc?

rgb(215, 219, 252) — 215 red, 219 green and 252 blue out of 255, or 84.3% / 85.9% / 98.8% by channel.

What is #d7dbfc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(234, 86%, 92%) and hsv(234, 15%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d7dbfc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7214 and perceived brightness is 87%, so black text on it reaches 15.43:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d7dbfc?

Black. It scores 15.43:1 against #d7dbfc, versus 1.36:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d7dbfc accessible on a white background?

#d7dbfc on white scores 1.36:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #5768F2 to reach 4.5:1, or #2339EE for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d7dbfc?

#FCF8D7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FCE6D7 and #EEFCD7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d7dbfc?

For interface work: #F4F5FA as the surface, #C0C5ED for borders, #4B539B for secondary text, #C38009 as an accent and #091577 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D7EEFC and #E6D7FC stays calm, while #FCF8D7 is the loudest partner.

What is #d7dbfc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 13%, 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 #d7dbfc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 87 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E1D7FC; nudged cooler, #D7E6FC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d7dbfc?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 28.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d7dbfc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d7dbfc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d7dbfc] or text-[#d7dbfc], 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 #d7dbfc with 50% opacity?

rgba(215, 219, 252, 0.5), or #d7dbfc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EBEDFE; over black, #6C6E7E.

Is #d7dbfc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 5.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d7dbfc mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #d7dbfc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECEEFE, #d7dbfc 45%, #091577). For more colour, a short hue run to #E3BBFA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d7dbfc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d7dbfc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.