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cyan · cool

#c0f2fd

a pale, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Powder Blue

Token name suggestion: Frost Reef

RGB
192, 242, 253
HSL
191°, 94%, 87%
CMYK
24, 4, 0, 1
Luminance
0.8180

#c0f2fd is a pale electric cyan, 191° on the wheel and 92/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.36:1). As text it scores 1.21:1 on white — use #05809B instead. Nearest name is Powder Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(191 94% 87%)rgb(192 242 253)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c0f2fd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c0f2fd
Hue
191°
cyan
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
90%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8180
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
92/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.36:1
Closest name
Powder Blue
ΔE2000 4.5
Chroma
17.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.930
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 19.3
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue191° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c0f2fd.

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
Red14%
Green78%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#c0f2fd
HEX (8-digit)#c0f2fdff
RGBrgb(192, 242, 253)
RGBArgba(192, 242, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(191, 94%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(191, 24%, 99%)
HWBhwb(191 75% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(24%, 4%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(92.5 -13.5 -10.5)
LCHlch(92.5 17.1 217.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.930 0.053 212.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(71.21, 81.80, 104.95)
Decimal12645117
Display P3color(display-p3 0.753 0.949 0.992)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c0f2fd;
background-color: #c0f2fd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c0f2fd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c0f2fd] bg-[#c0f2fd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c0f2fd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.753, green: 0.949, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.753, green: 0.949, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C0F2FD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC0F2FD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC0F2FD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 242, 192)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(192, 242, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(192, 242, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 192, 242, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7529f, 0.9490f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{192,242,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c0f2fd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c0f2fd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#04667C, #D3E9EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c0f2fd 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: #F2FBFD;
  --brand-100: #E4F7FB;
  --brand-200: #c0f2fd;
  --brand-300: #92E9FC;
  --brand-400: #5CDDFA;
  --brand-500: #26D2F8;
  --brand-600: #08C4ED;
  --brand-700: #06A3C6;
  --brand-800: #05839E;
  --brand-900: #085F72;
  --brand-950: #053B47;
  --brand: #c0f2fd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F9FA;
  --brand-border: #C0E5ED;
  --brand-hover: #9EEBFC;
  --brand-pressed: #7BE4FB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142124;
    --brand-ink: #D3E9EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FBFD',
        100: '#E4F7FB',
        200: '#c0f2fd',
        300: '#92E9FC',
        400: '#5CDDFA',
        500: '#26D2F8',
        600: '#08C4ED',
        700: '#06A3C6',
        800: '#05839E',
        900: '#085F72',
        950: '#053B47',
        DEFAULT: '#c0f2fd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FBFD,
  '100': #E4F7FB,
  '200': #c0f2fd,
  '300': #92E9FC,
  '400': #5CDDFA,
  '500': #26D2F8,
  '600': #08C4ED,
  '700': #06A3C6,
  '800': #05839E,
  '900': #085F72,
  '950': #053B47,
);
$brand-base: #c0f2fd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FBFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4F7FB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c0f2fd", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92E9FC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CDDFA", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#26D2F8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08C4ED", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#06A3C6", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#05839E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#085F72", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#053B47", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c0f2fd · 17.36:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.21:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.36:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c0f2fd as text scores 1.21:1 on white and 17.36:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #04667C 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
#05809B · 4.60:1
AA on white−56% L
#05809B
The quick fox
#045F73 · 7.27:1
AAA on white−64% L
#045F73
The quick fox
#c0f2fd · 17.36:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c0f2fd
The quick fox
#c0f2fd · 17.36:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c0f2fd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #06A0C2 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
#c0f2fd on white: 1.21:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c0f2fd on black: 17.36:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c0f2fd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c0f2fd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.21:1AaAa
Slate 501.16:1AaAa
Slate 1001.10:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.23:1AaAa
Slate 4002.12:1AaAa
Slate 5003.93:1AaAa
Slate 6006.26:1AaAa
Slate 7008.56:1AaAa
Slate 80012.09:1AaAa
Slate 90014.76:1AaAa
Black17.36:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E9EEFE
deuteranopia · #DEE6FD
tritanopia · #ADF7F5

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. #c0f2fd 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.

#F2FBFD
#E4F7FB
#c0f2fd
#92E9FC
#5CDDFA
#26D2F8
#08C4ED
#06A3C6
#05839E
#085F72
#053B47
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FBFDDarkest = 950 · #053B47Text 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 0.013 212.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.021 212.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.032 212.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.041 212.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.049 212.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.053 212.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.053 212.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.050 212.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.045 212.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.037 212.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.029 212.6);
}

Colors that work with #c0f2fd

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#F4F9FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0E5ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B8C9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#C90310
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#04667C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FAFE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142124
Dark-mode background
Hover#9EEBFC
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7BE4FB
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F6F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D3F7FF
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 #c0f2fd

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 #04667C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #06A0C2

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
  • Weight13/100
  • 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#FDCBC0
Analogous left#C0FDEA
Analogous right#C0D4FD
Split-complement 1#FDC0D4
Split-complement 2#FDEAC0
Triadic 1#FDC0F2
Triadic 2#F2FDC0
Tetradic#EAC0FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°191°

#c0f2fd sits at 191°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red75.3%
Green94.9%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
192
0xc0
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan24.1%
Magenta4.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

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

Color previews

#c0f2fd text on a black background

contrast 17.36:1

Card sample

#c0f2fd text on a white background

contrast 1.21:1

Card sample

#c0f2fd on grey

1.10:1

#c0f2fd on its own surface

1.14:1

#c0f2fd on its dark surface

13.64:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c0f2fd;
Background color
Panel with #c0f2fd background
background-color: #c0f2fd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c0f2fd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(192, 242, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(192, 242, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c0f2fd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c0f2fd, #C0CAFD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c0f2fd, #C6C0FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c0f2fd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c0f2fd;
caret-color: #c0f2fd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c0f2fd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FAFE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c0f2fd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c0f2fd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c0f2fd 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(192, 242, 253, 0.5)
rgb(192 242 253 / 50%)
#c0f2fd80
hsl(191 94% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c0f2fd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c0f2fd1a#F9FEFF
20%#c0f2fd33#F2FCFF
40%#c0f2fd66#E6FAFE
60%#c0f2fd99#D9F7FE
80%#c0f2fdcc#CDF5FD

Gradients from #c0f2fd

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, #EBFBFE, #c0f2fd 45%, #04667C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c0f2fd, #A3A9FC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c0f2fd, #FDCBC0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FCFF 0%, #c0f2fd 45%, #04667C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F9FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F2FFF9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DEE5FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #04667C 0%, transparent 65%), #c0f2fd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c0f2fd

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.

#c0f2fd 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

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 17.36:1.

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.

#c0f2fd, answered

What color is #c0f2fd?

#c0f2fd is a pale electric cyan, closest to Powder Blue (ΔE2000 4.5). It sits at 191° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c0f2fd?

rgb(192, 242, 253) — 192 red, 242 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 75.3% / 94.9% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #c0f2fd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(191, 94%, 87%) and hsv(191, 24%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c0f2fd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8180 and perceived brightness is 90%, so black text on it reaches 17.36:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c0f2fd?

Black. It scores 17.36:1 against #c0f2fd, versus 1.21:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c0f2fd accessible on a white background?

#c0f2fd on white scores 1.21:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #05809B to reach 4.5:1, or #045F73 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c0f2fd?

#FDCBC0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDC0D4 and #FDEAC0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c0f2fd?

For interface work: #F4F9FA as the surface, #C0E5ED for borders, #4B8C9B for secondary text, #C90310 as an accent and #04667C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C0FDEA and #C0D4FD stays calm, while #FDCBC0 is the loudest partner.

What is #c0f2fd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(24%, 4%, 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 #c0f2fd 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 #C0FDF2; nudged cooler, #C0E2FE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c0f2fd?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 19.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c0f2fd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c0f2fd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c0f2fd] or text-[#c0f2fd], 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 #c0f2fd with 50% opacity?

rgba(192, 242, 253, 0.5), or #c0f2fd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E0F9FE; over black, #60797F.

Is #c0f2fd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 5.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c0f2fd 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 #c0f2fd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFBFE, #c0f2fd 45%, #04667C). For more colour, a short hue run to #A3A9FC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c0f2fd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c0f2fd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.