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#f1fcfa

a pale, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Mint Cream

Token name suggestion: Chalk Lagoon

RGB
241, 252, 250
HSL
169°, 65%, 97%
CMYK
4, 0, 1, 1
Luminance
0.9522

#f1fcfa is a pale vivid cyan, 169° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.04:1). As text it scores 1.05:1 on white — use #1D8572 instead. Nearest name is Mint Cream, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(169 65% 97%)rgb(241 252 250)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f1fcfa is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f1fcfa
Hue
169°
cyan
Saturation
65%
vivid
Lightness
97%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
97%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9522
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
20.04:1
Closest name
Mint Cream
ΔE2000 1.6
Chroma
4.0
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.982
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 27.9
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue169° of 360°
Saturation65%
Lightness97%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f1fcfa.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool83% 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%
Green73%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f1fcfa
HEX (8-digit)#f1fcfaff
RGBrgb(241, 252, 250)
RGBArgba(241, 252, 250, 1)
HSLhsl(169, 65%, 97%)
HSV / HSBhsv(169, 4%, 99%)
HWBhwb(169 95% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(4%, 0%, 1%, 1%)
LABlab(98.1 -4.0 -0.3)
LCHlch(98.1 4.0 184.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.982 0.012 184.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(88.34, 95.22, 104.15)
Decimal15858938
Display P3color(display-p3 0.945 0.988 0.980)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f1fcfa;
background-color: #f1fcfa;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f1fcfa;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f1fcfa] bg-[#f1fcfa]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f1fcfa;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.945, green: 0.988, blue: 0.980)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.945, green: 0.988, blue: 0.980, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F1FCFA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF1FCFA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF1FCFA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(250, 252, 241)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(241, 252, 250)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(241, 252, 250)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 241, 252, 250)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9451f, 0.9882f, 0.9804f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{241,252,250}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f1fcfa 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f1fcfa 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#17695A, #D3EEE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f1fcfa 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: #f1fcfa;
  --brand-100: #E8F7F5;
  --brand-200: #CBF1EA;
  --brand-300: #A3EBDE;
  --brand-400: #74E1CE;
  --brand-500: #46D7BD;
  --brand-600: #2BCAAD;
  --brand-700: #24A890;
  --brand-800: #1D8673;
  --brand-900: #196254;
  --brand-950: #0F3D35;
  --brand: #f1fcfa;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE4;
  --brand-hover: #D4F6F0;
  --brand-pressed: #B6EFE5;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f1fcfa',
        100: '#E8F7F5',
        200: '#CBF1EA',
        300: '#A3EBDE',
        400: '#74E1CE',
        500: '#46D7BD',
        600: '#2BCAAD',
        700: '#24A890',
        800: '#1D8673',
        900: '#196254',
        950: '#0F3D35',
        DEFAULT: '#f1fcfa',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f1fcfa,
  '100': #E8F7F5,
  '200': #CBF1EA,
  '300': #A3EBDE,
  '400': #74E1CE,
  '500': #46D7BD,
  '600': #2BCAAD,
  '700': #24A890,
  '800': #1D8673,
  '900': #196254,
  '950': #0F3D35,
);
$brand-base: #f1fcfa;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f1fcfa", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F7F5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBF1EA", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A3EBDE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#74E1CE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#46D7BD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2BCAAD", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#24A890", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1D8673", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#196254", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3D35", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f1fcfa · 20.04:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.05:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.04:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f1fcfa as text scores 1.05:1 on white and 20.04:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #17695A at 6.25:1.

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
#1D8572 · 4.52:1
AA on white−65% L
#1D8572
The quick fox
#156455 · 7.03:1
AAA on white−73% L
#156455
The quick fox
#f1fcfa · 20.04:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f1fcfa
The quick fox
#f1fcfa · 20.04:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f1fcfa

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #24A78F 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
#f1fcfa on white: 1.05:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f1fcfa on black: 20.04:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f1fcfa as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f1fcfa.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.05:1AaAa
Slate 501.00:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.42:1AaAa
Slate 4002.45:1AaAa
Slate 5004.54:1AaAa
Slate 6007.23:1AaAa
Slate 7009.88:1AaAa
Slate 80013.96:1AaAa
Slate 90017.04:1AaAa
Black20.04:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FBFBFA
deuteranopia · #F8F9FA
tritanopia · #EEFDFB

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. #f1fcfa 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.

#f1fcfa
#E8F7F5
#CBF1EA
#A3EBDE
#74E1CE
#46D7BD
#2BCAAD
#24A890
#1D8673
#196254
#0F3D35
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f1fcfaDarkest = 950 · #0F3D35Text 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 0.003 184.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.005 184.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.007 184.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.009 184.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.011 184.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.012 184.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.012 184.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.011 184.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.010 184.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.008 184.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.007 184.1);
}

Colors that work with #f1fcfa

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#F4FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8C
Captions on the surface
Accent#A82460
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#17695A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFAF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#D4F6F0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#B6EFE5
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DBFAF4
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 #f1fcfa

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 #17695A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #24A78F

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 high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight3/100
  • 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#FCF1F3
Analogous left#F1FCF5
Analogous right#F1F9FC
Split-complement 1#FCF1F9
Split-complement 2#FCF5F1
Triadic 1#FAF1FC
Triadic 2#FCFAF1
Tetradic#F5F1FC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°169°

#f1fcfa sits at 169°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red94.5%
Green98.8%
Blue98.0%
R · 0–255
241
0xf1
G · 0–255
252
0xfc
B · 0–255
250
0xfa

CMYK percentages

Cyan4.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow0.8%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 6%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f1fcfa text on a black background

contrast 20.04:1

Card sample

#f1fcfa text on a white background

contrast 1.05:1

Card sample

#f1fcfa on grey

1.05:1

#f1fcfa on its own surface

1.01:1

#f1fcfa on its dark surface

15.37:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f1fcfa;
Background color
Panel with #f1fcfa background
background-color: #f1fcfa;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f1fcfa;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(241, 252, 250, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(241, 252, 250, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f1fcfa;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f1fcfa, #F1F7FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1fcfa, #F1F4FC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f1fcfa;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f1fcfa;
caret-color: #f1fcfa;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f1fcfa;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFAF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f1fcfa;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f1fcfa 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f1fcfa 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(241, 252, 250, 0.5)
rgb(241 252 250 / 50%)
#f1fcfa80
hsl(169 65% 97% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f1fcfa 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f1fcfa1a#FEFFFF
20%#f1fcfa33#FCFEFE
40%#f1fcfa66#F9FEFD
60%#f1fcfa99#F7FDFC
80%#f1fcfacc#F4FDFB

Gradients from #f1fcfa

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, #EEFBF9, #f1fcfa 45%, #17695A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f1fcfa, #D8E5F7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f1fcfa, #FCF1F3);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2FCFB 0%, #f1fcfa 45%, #17695A 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF9, #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%, #17695A 0%, transparent 65%), #f1fcfa;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f1fcfa

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.

#f1fcfa 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 20.04:1.

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.

#f1fcfa, answered

What color is #f1fcfa?

#f1fcfa is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Mint Cream (ΔE2000 1.6). It sits at 169° on the hue wheel with 65% saturation and 97% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f1fcfa?

rgb(241, 252, 250) — 241 red, 252 green and 250 blue out of 255, or 94.5% / 98.8% / 98% by channel.

What is #f1fcfa in HSL and HSV?

hsl(169, 65%, 97%) and hsv(169, 4%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f1fcfa a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9522 and perceived brightness is 97%, so black text on it reaches 20.04:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f1fcfa?

Black. It scores 20.04:1 against #f1fcfa, versus 1.05:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f1fcfa accessible on a white background?

#f1fcfa on white scores 1.05:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1D8572 to reach 4.5:1, or #156455 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f1fcfa?

#FCF1F3 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FCF1F9 and #FCF5F1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f1fcfa?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE4 for borders, #4B9B8C for secondary text, #A82460 as an accent and #17695A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F1FCF5 and #F1F9FC stays calm, while #FCF1F3 is the loudest partner.

What is #f1fcfa in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(4%, 0%, 1%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f1fcfa warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 83 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #F1FCF6; nudged cooler, #F1FAFC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f1fcfa?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 27.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f1fcfa as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f1fcfa in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f1fcfa] or text-[#f1fcfa], 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 #f1fcfa with 50% opacity?

rgba(241, 252, 250, 0.5), or #f1fcfa80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F8FEFD; over black, #797E7D.

Is #f1fcfa a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 5.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f1fcfa 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 #f1fcfa?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EEFBF9, #f1fcfa 45%, #17695A). For more colour, a short hue run to #D8E5F7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f1fcfa in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f1fcfa at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.