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#bdfceb

a pale, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Pale Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Mist Lagoon

RGB
189, 252, 235
HSL
164°, 91%, 87%
CMYK
25, 0, 7, 1
Luminance
0.8644

#bdfceb is a pale electric cyan, 164° on the wheel and 81/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.29:1). As text it scores 1.15:1 on white — use #068664 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(164 91% 87%)rgb(189 252 235)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#bdfceb
Hue
164°
cyan
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8644
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
81/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.29:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 6.9
Chroma
23.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.944
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.3
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue164° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool81% 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
Red13%
Green81%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#bdfceb
HEX (8-digit)#bdfcebff
RGBrgb(189, 252, 235)
RGBArgba(189, 252, 235, 1)
HSLhsl(164, 91%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(164, 25%, 99%)
HWBhwb(164 74% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(25%, 0%, 7%, 1%)
LABlab(94.5 -23.1 1.8)
LCHlch(94.5 23.1 175.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.944 0.067 176.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(70.79, 86.43, 91.53)
Decimal12451051
Display P3color(display-p3 0.741 0.988 0.922)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #bdfceb;
background-color: #bdfceb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #bdfceb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#bdfceb] bg-[#bdfceb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #bdfceb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.741, green: 0.988, blue: 0.922)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.741, green: 0.988, blue: 0.922, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BDFCEB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBDFCEB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBDFCEB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(235, 252, 189)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(189, 252, 235)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(189, 252, 235)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 189, 252, 235)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7412f, 0.9882f, 0.9216f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{189,252,235}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfceb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #bdfceb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#067A5B, #D3EEE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #bdfceb 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: #F2FDFA;
  --brand-100: #E4FBF5;
  --brand-200: #bdfceb;
  --brand-300: #94FADE;
  --brand-400: #5EF8CE;
  --brand-500: #28F5BE;
  --brand-600: #0BEAAE;
  --brand-700: #09C391;
  --brand-800: #079C74;
  --brand-900: #0A7155;
  --brand-950: #064635;
  --brand: #bdfceb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE1;
  --brand-hover: #9BFAE1;
  --brand-pressed: #79F9D6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFA',
        100: '#E4FBF5',
        200: '#bdfceb',
        300: '#94FADE',
        400: '#5EF8CE',
        500: '#28F5BE',
        600: '#0BEAAE',
        700: '#09C391',
        800: '#079C74',
        900: '#0A7155',
        950: '#064635',
        DEFAULT: '#bdfceb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFA,
  '100': #E4FBF5,
  '200': #bdfceb,
  '300': #94FADE,
  '400': #5EF8CE,
  '500': #28F5BE,
  '600': #0BEAAE,
  '700': #09C391,
  '800': #079C74,
  '900': #0A7155,
  '950': #064635,
);
$brand-base: #bdfceb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBF5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#bdfceb", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94FADE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5EF8CE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#28F5BE", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0BEAAE", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#09C391", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#079C74", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0A7155", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#064635", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #bdfceb · 18.29:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.15:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.29:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #bdfceb as text scores 1.15:1 on white and 18.29:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #067A5B at 4.64:1.

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
#068664 · 4.56:1
AA on white−59% L
#068664
The quick fox
#05644A · 7.17:1
AAA on white−66% L
#05644A
The quick fox
#bdfceb · 18.29:1
AA on blackalready passes
#bdfceb
The quick fox
#bdfceb · 18.29:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#bdfceb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #08A87D 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
#bdfceb on white: 1.15:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#bdfceb on black: 18.29:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.15:1AaAa
Slate 501.10:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.29:1AaAa
Slate 4002.23:1AaAa
Slate 5004.14:1AaAa
Slate 6006.60:1AaAa
Slate 7009.02:1AaAa
Slate 80012.74:1AaAa
Slate 90015.55:1AaAa
Black18.29:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F7F4EA
deuteranopia · #ECECEC
tritanopia · #ADFEF7

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. #bdfceb 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.

#F2FDFA
#E4FBF5
#bdfceb
#94FADE
#5EF8CE
#28F5BE
#0BEAAE
#09C391
#079C74
#0A7155
#064635
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFADarkest = 950 · #064635Text 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 0.017 176.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 176.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 176.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.052 176.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.062 176.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.067 176.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.067 176.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.063 176.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.056 176.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.047 176.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.037 176.3);
}

Colors that work with #bdfceb

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#C0EDE1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B85
Captions on the surface
Accent#C6066A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#067A5B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#9BFAE1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#79F9D6
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CFFFF2
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 #bdfceb

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 #067A5B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #08A87D

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight14/100
  • 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#FCBDCE
Analogous left#BDFCCC
Analogous right#BDEEFC
Split-complement 1#FCBDEE
Split-complement 2#FCCCBD
Triadic 1#EBBDFC
Triadic 2#FCEBBD
Tetradic#CCBDFC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°164°

#bdfceb sits at 164°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.1%
Green98.8%
Blue92.2%
R · 0–255
189
0xbd
G · 0–255
252
0xfc
B · 0–255
235
0xeb

CMYK percentages

Cyan25.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow6.7%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 33%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#bdfceb text on a black background

contrast 18.29:1

Card sample

#bdfceb text on a white background

contrast 1.15:1

Card sample

#bdfceb on grey

1.05:1

#bdfceb on its own surface

1.09:1

#bdfceb on its dark surface

14.04:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(189, 252, 235, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(189, 252, 235, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #bdfceb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #bdfceb, #BDE3FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfceb, #BDD3FC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #bdfceb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #bdfceb;
caret-color: #bdfceb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #bdfceb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #bdfceb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#bdfceb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #bdfceb 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(189, 252, 235, 0.5)
rgb(189 252 235 / 50%)
#bdfceb80
hsl(164 91% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #bdfceb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#bdfceb1a#F8FFFD
20%#bdfceb33#F2FEFB
40%#bdfceb66#E5FEF7
60%#bdfceb99#D7FDF3
80%#bdfcebcc#CAFDEF

Gradients from #bdfceb

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, #EBFEF9, #bdfceb 45%, #067A5B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #bdfceb, #A0CFFB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #bdfceb, #FCBDCE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FEFB 0%, #bdfceb 45%, #067A5B 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%, #EEFEF0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DAF2FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #067A5B 0%, transparent 65%), #bdfceb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #bdfceb

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.

#bdfceb 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

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 18.29:1.

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.

#bdfceb, answered

What color is #bdfceb?

#bdfceb is a pale electric cyan, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 6.9). It sits at 164° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #bdfceb?

rgb(189, 252, 235) — 189 red, 252 green and 235 blue out of 255, or 74.1% / 98.8% / 92.2% by channel.

What is #bdfceb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(164, 91%, 87%) and hsv(164, 25%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #bdfceb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8644 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 18.29:1.

Should I use black or white text on #bdfceb?

Black. It scores 18.29:1 against #bdfceb, versus 1.15:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #bdfceb accessible on a white background?

#bdfceb on white scores 1.15:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #068664 to reach 4.5:1, or #05644A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #bdfceb?

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

What colors go well with #bdfceb?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE1 for borders, #4B9B85 for secondary text, #C6066A as an accent and #067A5B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BDFCCC and #BDEEFC stays calm, while #FCBDCE is the loudest partner.

What is #bdfceb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(25%, 0%, 7%, 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 #bdfceb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 81 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #BDFCD4; nudged cooler, #BCF6FD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #bdfceb?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #bdfceb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #bdfceb in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(189, 252, 235, 0.5), or #bdfceb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DEFEF5; over black, #5F7E76.

Is #bdfceb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 7.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #bdfceb 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 #bdfceb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFEF9, #bdfceb 45%, #067A5B). For more colour, a short hue run to #A0CFFB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #bdfceb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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