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#edf1fd

a pale, electric blue · cool · closest name: Ghost White

Token name suggestion: Frost Cobalt

RGB
237, 241, 253
HSL
225°, 80%, 96%
CMYK
6, 5, 0, 1
Luminance
0.8801

#edf1fd is a pale electric blue, 225° on the wheel and 92/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.60:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #436DEA instead. Nearest name is Ghost White, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(225 80% 96%)rgb(237 241 253)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #edf1fd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#edf1fd
Hue
225°
blue
Saturation
80%
electric
Lightness
96%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
95%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8801
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
92/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.60:1
Closest name
Ghost White
ΔE2000 2.9
Chroma
6.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.959
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 29.1
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue225° of 360°
Saturation80%
Lightness96%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #edf1fd.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool92% 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%
Green71%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#edf1fd
HEX (8-digit)#edf1fdff
RGBrgb(237, 241, 253)
RGBArgba(237, 241, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(225, 80%, 96%)
HSV / HSBhsv(225, 6%, 99%)
HWBhwb(225 93% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(6%, 5%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(95.2 0.9 -6.2)
LCHlch(95.2 6.3 278.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.959 0.017 271.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(84.11, 88.01, 105.47)
Decimal15593981
Display P3color(display-p3 0.929 0.945 0.992)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #edf1fd;
background-color: #edf1fd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #edf1fd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#edf1fd] bg-[#edf1fd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #edf1fd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.929, green: 0.945, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.929, green: 0.945, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#EDF1FD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFEDF1FD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFEDF1FD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 241, 237)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(237, 241, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(237, 241, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 237, 241, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9294f, 0.9451f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{237,241,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #edf1fd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #edf1fd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0D2673, #D3DAEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #edf1fd 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: #edf1fd;
  --brand-100: #E6EBF9;
  --brand-200: #C7D2F5;
  --brand-300: #9AB0F4;
  --brand-400: #6889EE;
  --brand-500: #3562E9;
  --brand-600: #1849DC;
  --brand-700: #143DB8;
  --brand-800: #103193;
  --brand-900: #10276A;
  --brand-950: #0A1842;
  --brand: #edf1fd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F6FA;
  --brand-border: #C0CBED;
  --brand-hover: #CDD8F9;
  --brand-pressed: #ADBFF6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141824;
    --brand-ink: #D3DAEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#edf1fd',
        100: '#E6EBF9',
        200: '#C7D2F5',
        300: '#9AB0F4',
        400: '#6889EE',
        500: '#3562E9',
        600: '#1849DC',
        700: '#143DB8',
        800: '#103193',
        900: '#10276A',
        950: '#0A1842',
        DEFAULT: '#edf1fd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #edf1fd,
  '100': #E6EBF9,
  '200': #C7D2F5,
  '300': #9AB0F4,
  '400': #6889EE,
  '500': #3562E9,
  '600': #1849DC,
  '700': #143DB8,
  '800': #103193,
  '900': #10276A,
  '950': #0A1842,
);
$brand-base: #edf1fd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#edf1fd", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E6EBF9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C7D2F5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9AB0F4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6889EE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3562E9", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1849DC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#143DB8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#103193", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#10276A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0A1842", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #edf1fd · 18.60:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.13:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.60:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #edf1fd as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.60:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0D2673 at 12.06:1.

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
#436DEA · 4.55:1
AA on white−37% L
#436DEA
The quick fox
#1848D8 · 7.10:1
AAA on white−49% L
#1848D8
The quick fox
#edf1fd · 18.60:1
AA on blackalready passes
#edf1fd
The quick fox
#edf1fd · 18.60:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#edf1fd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7191EF 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
#edf1fd on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#edf1fd on black: 18.60:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #edf1fd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #edf1fd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.32:1AaAa
Slate 4002.27:1AaAa
Slate 5004.22:1AaAa
Slate 6006.71:1AaAa
Slate 7009.17:1AaAa
Slate 80012.96:1AaAa
Slate 90015.81:1AaAa
Black18.60:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EEF2FE
deuteranopia · #EDF0FD
tritanopia · #EAF3F5

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. #edf1fd is pinned to step 50; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#edf1fd
#E6EBF9
#C7D2F5
#9AB0F4
#6889EE
#3562E9
#1849DC
#143DB8
#103193
#10276A
#0A1842
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #edf1fdDarkest = 950 · #0A1842Text 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 0.004 271.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.007 271.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.010 271.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.013 271.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.015 271.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.017 271.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.017 271.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.016 271.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.014 271.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.012 271.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.009 271.2);
}

Colors that work with #edf1fd

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#F4F6FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0CBED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B5F9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B86614
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0D2673
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8EDFC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141824
Dark-mode background
Hover#CDD8F9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#ADBFF6
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F4F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D8E1FD
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 #edf1fd

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 #0D2673
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7191EF

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
  • Weight4/100
  • 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#FDF9ED
Analogous left#EDF9FD
Analogous right#F1EDFD
Split-complement 1#FDF1ED
Split-complement 2#F9FDED
Triadic 1#FDEDF1
Triadic 2#F1FDED
Tetradic#FDEDF9
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°225°

#edf1fd sits at 225°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red92.9%
Green94.5%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
237
0xed
G · 0–255
241
0xf1
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan6.3%
Magenta4.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 12%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#edf1fd text on a black background

contrast 18.60:1

Card sample

#edf1fd text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#edf1fd on grey

1.03:1

#edf1fd on its own surface

1.04:1

#edf1fd on its dark surface

15.69:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #edf1fd;
Background color
Panel with #edf1fd background
background-color: #edf1fd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #edf1fd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(237, 241, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(237, 241, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #edf1fd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #edf1fd, #F4EDFD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #edf1fd, #F8EDFD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #edf1fd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #edf1fd;
caret-color: #edf1fd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #edf1fd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8EDFC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #edf1fd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#edf1fd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #edf1fd 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(237, 241, 253, 0.5)
rgb(237 241 253 / 50%)
#edf1fd80
hsl(225 80% 96% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #edf1fd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#edf1fd1a#FDFEFF
20%#edf1fd33#FBFCFF
40%#edf1fd66#F8F9FE
60%#edf1fd99#F4F7FE
80%#edf1fdcc#F1F4FD

Gradients from #edf1fd

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, #EDF1FD, #edf1fd 45%, #0D2673);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #edf1fd, #E6D2FA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #edf1fd, #FDF9ED);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1F4FD 0%, #edf1fd 45%, #0D2673 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F6FA, #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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0D2673 0%, transparent 65%), #edf1fd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #edf1fd

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.

#edf1fd 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

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.60:1.

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.

#edf1fd, answered

What color is #edf1fd?

#edf1fd is a pale electric blue, closest to Ghost White (ΔE2000 2.9). It sits at 225° on the hue wheel with 80% saturation and 96% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #edf1fd?

rgb(237, 241, 253) — 237 red, 241 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 92.9% / 94.5% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #edf1fd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(225, 80%, 96%) and hsv(225, 6%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #edf1fd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8801 and perceived brightness is 95%, so black text on it reaches 18.60:1.

Should I use black or white text on #edf1fd?

Black. It scores 18.60:1 against #edf1fd, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #edf1fd accessible on a white background?

#edf1fd on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #436DEA to reach 4.5:1, or #1848D8 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #edf1fd?

#FDF9ED sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDF1ED and #F9FDED, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #edf1fd?

For interface work: #F4F6FA as the surface, #C0CBED for borders, #4B5F9B for secondary text, #B86614 as an accent and #0D2673 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #EDF9FD and #F1EDFD stays calm, while #FDF9ED is the loudest partner.

What is #edf1fd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(6%, 5%, 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 #edf1fd warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 92 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #EFEDFD; nudged cooler, #EDF4FD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #edf1fd?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 29.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #edf1fd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #edf1fd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#edf1fd] or text-[#edf1fd], 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 #edf1fd with 50% opacity?

rgba(237, 241, 253, 0.5), or #edf1fd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F6F8FE; over black, #77797F.

Is #edf1fd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 6.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #edf1fd 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 #edf1fd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EDF1FD, #edf1fd 45%, #0D2673). For more colour, a short hue run to #E6D2FA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #edf1fd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #edf1fd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.