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#beefe2

a light, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Pale Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Drift Teal

RGB
190, 239, 226
HSL
164°, 61%, 84%
CMYK
21, 0, 5, 6
Luminance
0.7817

#beefe2 is a light vivid cyan, 164° on the wheel and 81/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.63:1). As text it scores 1.26:1 on white — use #208369 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(164 61% 84%)rgb(190 239 226)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #beefe2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#beefe2
Hue
164°
cyan
Saturation
61%
vivid
Lightness
84%
light
Brightness
94%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7817
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
81/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.63:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 5.5
Chroma
18.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.914
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 19.5
Web-safe
#CCFFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue164° of 360°
Saturation61%
Lightness84%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #beefe2.

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
Red14%
Green79%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#beefe2
HEX (8-digit)#beefe2ff
RGBrgb(190, 239, 226)
RGBArgba(190, 239, 226, 1)
HSLhsl(164, 61%, 84%)
HSV / HSBhsv(164, 21%, 94%)
HWBhwb(164 75% 6%)
CMYKcmyk(21%, 0%, 5%, 6%)
LABlab(90.9 -18.2 1.1)
LCHlch(90.9 18.3 176.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.914 0.053 177.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(65.83, 78.17, 83.56)
Decimal12513250
Display P3color(display-p3 0.745 0.937 0.886)
Web-safe#CCFFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #beefe2;
background-color: #beefe2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #beefe2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#beefe2] bg-[#beefe2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #beefe2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.745, green: 0.937, blue: 0.886)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.745, green: 0.937, blue: 0.886, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#BEEFE2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFBEEFE2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFBEEFE2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(226, 239, 190)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(190, 239, 226)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(190, 239, 226)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 190, 239, 226)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7451f, 0.9373f, 0.8863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{190,239,226}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #beefe2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #beefe2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#196652, #D3EEE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #beefe2 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: #F4FBF9;
  --brand-100: #E8F7F3;
  --brand-200: #beefe2;
  --brand-300: #A5E9D7;
  --brand-400: #78DEC3;
  --brand-500: #4BD3AF;
  --brand-600: #30C49D;
  --brand-700: #28A483;
  --brand-800: #208369;
  --brand-900: #1B5F4D;
  --brand-950: #113C30;
  --brand: #beefe2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE1;
  --brand-hover: #A1E8D5;
  --brand-pressed: #85E1C8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBF9',
        100: '#E8F7F3',
        200: '#beefe2',
        300: '#A5E9D7',
        400: '#78DEC3',
        500: '#4BD3AF',
        600: '#30C49D',
        700: '#28A483',
        800: '#208369',
        900: '#1B5F4D',
        950: '#113C30',
        DEFAULT: '#beefe2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBF9,
  '100': #E8F7F3,
  '200': #beefe2,
  '300': #A5E9D7,
  '400': #78DEC3,
  '500': #4BD3AF,
  '600': #30C49D,
  '700': #28A483,
  '800': #208369,
  '900': #1B5F4D,
  '950': #113C30,
);
$brand-base: #beefe2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F7F3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#beefe2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5E9D7", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#78DEC3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4BD3AF", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#30C49D", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#28A483", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#208369", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B5F4D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#113C30", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #beefe2 · 16.63:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.26:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.63:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #beefe2 as text scores 1.26:1 on white and 16.63:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #196652 at 5.43:1.

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
#208369 · 4.65:1
AA on white−52% L
#208369
The quick fox
#18634F · 7.15:1
AAA on white−60% L
#18634F
The quick fox
#beefe2 · 16.63:1
AA on blackalready passes
#beefe2
The quick fox
#beefe2 · 16.63:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#beefe2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #28A483 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
#beefe2 on white: 1.26:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#beefe2 on black: 16.63:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #beefe2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #beefe2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.26:1AaAa
Slate 501.21:1AaAa
Slate 1001.15:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.18:1AaAa
Slate 4002.03:1AaAa
Slate 5003.77:1AaAa
Slate 6006.00:1AaAa
Slate 7008.20:1AaAa
Slate 80011.59:1AaAa
Slate 90014.14:1AaAa
Black16.63:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EBE9E1
deuteranopia · #E2E2E3
tritanopia · #B2F0EB

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. #beefe2 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.

#F4FBF9
#E8F7F3
#beefe2
#A5E9D7
#78DEC3
#4BD3AF
#30C49D
#28A483
#208369
#1B5F4D
#113C30
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FBF9Darkest = 950 · #113C30Text 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 0.013 177.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.021 177.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.032 177.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.042 177.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.049 177.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.053 177.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.053 177.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.050 177.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.045 177.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.037 177.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.029 177.1);
}

Colors that work with #beefe2

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#4B9B86
Captions on the surface
Accent#A92367
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#196652
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#A1E8D5
One step down in lightness
Pressed#85E1C8
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#CBF6EB
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 #beefe2

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 #196652
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #28A483

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
  • Weight16/100
  • 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#EFBECB
Analogous left#BEEFC9
Analogous right#BEE3EF
Split-complement 1#EFBEE3
Split-complement 2#EFC9BE
Triadic 1#E2BEEF
Triadic 2#EFE2BE
Tetradic#C9BEEF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°164°

#beefe2 sits at 164°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red74.5%
Green93.7%
Blue88.6%
R · 0–255
190
0xbe
G · 0–255
239
0xef
B · 0–255
226
0xe2

CMYK percentages

Cyan20.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow5.4%
Key (black)6.3%

Total ink coverage is 32%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#beefe2 text on a black background

contrast 16.63:1

Card sample

#beefe2 text on a white background

contrast 1.26:1

Card sample

#beefe2 on grey

1.15:1

#beefe2 on its own surface

1.20:1

#beefe2 on its dark surface

12.77:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #beefe2;
Background color
Panel with #beefe2 background
background-color: #beefe2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #beefe2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(190, 239, 226, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(190, 239, 226, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #beefe2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #beefe2, #BEDBEF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #beefe2, #BECFEF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #beefe2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #beefe2;
caret-color: #beefe2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #beefe2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #beefe2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#beefe2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #beefe2 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, 239, 226, 0.5)
rgb(190 239 226 / 50%)
#beefe280
hsl(164 61% 84% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #beefe2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#beefe21a#F9FDFC
20%#beefe233#F2FCF9
40%#beefe266#E5F9F3
60%#beefe299#D8F5EE
80%#beefe2cc#CBF2E8

Gradients from #beefe2

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, #EFFBF8, #beefe2 45%, #196652);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #beefe2, #A5C8E9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #beefe2, #EFBECB);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FCFA 0%, #beefe2 45%, #196652 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%, #E7F9EA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #D6EBF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #196652 0%, transparent 65%), #beefe2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #beefe2

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.

#beefe2 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 16.63:1.

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.

#beefe2, answered

What color is #beefe2?

#beefe2 is a light vivid cyan, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 5.5). It sits at 164° on the hue wheel with 61% saturation and 84% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #beefe2?

rgb(190, 239, 226) — 190 red, 239 green and 226 blue out of 255, or 74.5% / 93.7% / 88.6% by channel.

What is #beefe2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(164, 61%, 84%) and hsv(164, 21%, 94%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #beefe2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7817 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 16.63:1.

Should I use black or white text on #beefe2?

Black. It scores 16.63:1 against #beefe2, versus 1.26:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #beefe2 accessible on a white background?

#beefe2 on white scores 1.26:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #208369 to reach 4.5:1, or #18634F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #beefe2?

#EFBECB sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EFBEE3 and #EFC9BE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #beefe2?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE1 for borders, #4B9B86 for secondary text, #A92367 as an accent and #196652 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #BEEFC9 and #BEE3EF stays calm, while #EFBECB is the loudest partner.

What is #beefe2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(21%, 0%, 5%, 6%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #beefe2 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 #BEEFD0; nudged cooler, #BDEBF0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #beefe2?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 19.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #beefe2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #beefe2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#beefe2] or text-[#beefe2], 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 #beefe2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(190, 239, 226, 0.5), or #beefe280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #DFF7F1; over black, #5F7871.

Is #beefe2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFCC, ΔE2000 11.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #beefe2 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 #beefe2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFFBF8, #beefe2 45%, #196652). For more colour, a short hue run to #A5C8E9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #beefe2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #beefe2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.