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#c2fdef

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Glacier

RGB
194, 253, 239
HSL
166°, 94%, 88%
CMYK
23, 0, 6, 1
Luminance
0.8795

#c2fdef is a pale electric cyan, 166° on the wheel and 82/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.59:1). As text it scores 1.13:1 on white — use #048365 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(166 94% 88%)rgb(194 253 239)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #c2fdef is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#c2fdef
Hue
166°
cyan
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8795
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
82/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
18.59:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 6.2
Chroma
21.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.950
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 20.9
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue166° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #c2fdef.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool82% 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%
Green80%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#c2fdef
HEX (8-digit)#c2fdefff
RGBrgb(194, 253, 239)
RGBArgba(194, 253, 239, 1)
HSLhsl(166, 94%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(166, 23%, 99%)
HWBhwb(166 76% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(23%, 0%, 6%, 1%)
LABlab(95.1 -21.3 0.7)
LCHlch(95.1 21.3 178.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.950 0.062 178.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(72.95, 87.95, 94.78)
Decimal12778991
Display P3color(display-p3 0.761 0.992 0.937)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #c2fdef;
background-color: #c2fdef;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #c2fdef;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#c2fdef] bg-[#c2fdef]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #c2fdef;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.761, green: 0.992, blue: 0.937)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.761, green: 0.992, blue: 0.937, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#C2FDEF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFC2FDEF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFC2FDEF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(239, 253, 194)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(194, 253, 239)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(194, 253, 239)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 194, 253, 239)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7608f, 0.9922f, 0.9373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{194,253,239}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #c2fdef 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #c2fdef 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#047B5F, #D3EEE8);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #c2fdef 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: #E4FBF6;
  --brand-200: #c2fdef;
  --brand-300: #92FBE3;
  --brand-400: #5CFAD4;
  --brand-500: #26F8C6;
  --brand-600: #08EDB7;
  --brand-700: #06C698;
  --brand-800: #059E7A;
  --brand-900: #087259;
  --brand-950: #054738;
  --brand: #c2fdef;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE2;
  --brand-hover: #9FFCE6;
  --brand-pressed: #7DFBDD;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE8;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFA',
        100: '#E4FBF6',
        200: '#c2fdef',
        300: '#92FBE3',
        400: '#5CFAD4',
        500: '#26F8C6',
        600: '#08EDB7',
        700: '#06C698',
        800: '#059E7A',
        900: '#087259',
        950: '#054738',
        DEFAULT: '#c2fdef',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFA,
  '100': #E4FBF6,
  '200': #c2fdef,
  '300': #92FBE3,
  '400': #5CFAD4,
  '500': #26F8C6,
  '600': #08EDB7,
  '700': #06C698,
  '800': #059E7A,
  '900': #087259,
  '950': #054738,
);
$brand-base: #c2fdef;
$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": "#E4FBF6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#c2fdef", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92FBE3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CFAD4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#26F8C6", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08EDB7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#06C698", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#059E7A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#087259", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054738", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #c2fdef · 18.59:1
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 · 18.59:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #c2fdef as text scores 1.13:1 on white and 18.59:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #047B5F 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
#048365 · 4.73:1
AA on white−61% L
#048365
The quick fox
#03614B · 7.46:1
AAA on white−68% L
#03614B
The quick fox
#c2fdef · 18.59:1
AA on blackalready passes
#c2fdef
The quick fox
#c2fdef · 18.59:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#c2fdef

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #05A680 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
#c2fdef on white: 1.13:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#c2fdef on black: 18.59:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #c2fdef as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #c2fdef.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.13:1AaAa
Slate 501.08:1AaAa
Slate 1001.03:1AaAa
Slate 2001.09:1AaAa
Slate 3001.31:1AaAa
Slate 4002.27:1AaAa
Slate 5004.21:1AaAa
Slate 6006.71:1AaAa
Slate 7009.17:1AaAa
Slate 80012.95:1AaAa
Slate 90015.80:1AaAa
Black18.59:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F8F6EE
deuteranopia · #EDEEF0
tritanopia · #B2FFF9

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. #c2fdef 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
#E4FBF6
#c2fdef
#92FBE3
#5CFAD4
#26F8C6
#08EDB7
#06C698
#059E7A
#087259
#054738
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFADarkest = 950 · #054738Text 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 0.016 178.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.025 178.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.037 178.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.049 178.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.057 178.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.062 178.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.062 178.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.059 178.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.052 178.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.044 178.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.034 178.7);
}

Colors that work with #c2fdef

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#C0EDE2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B88
Captions on the surface
Accent#C90366
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#047B5F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#9FFCE6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#7DFBDD
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D4FFF5
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 #c2fdef

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 #047B5F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #05A680

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#FDC2D0
Analogous left#C2FDD1
Analogous right#C2EDFD
Split-complement 1#FDC2ED
Split-complement 2#FDD1C2
Triadic 1#EFC2FD
Triadic 2#FDEFC2
Tetradic#D1C2FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°166°

#c2fdef sits at 166°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red76.1%
Green99.2%
Blue93.7%
R · 0–255
194
0xc2
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
239
0xef

CMYK percentages

Cyan23.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow5.5%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 30%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#c2fdef text on a black background

contrast 18.59:1

Card sample

#c2fdef text on a white background

contrast 1.13:1

Card sample

#c2fdef on grey

1.03:1

#c2fdef on its own surface

1.07:1

#c2fdef on its dark surface

14.27:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #c2fdef;
Background color
Panel with #c2fdef background
background-color: #c2fdef;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #c2fdef;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(194, 253, 239, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(194, 253, 239, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #c2fdef;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #c2fdef, #C2E4FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c2fdef, #C2D5FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #c2fdef;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #c2fdef;
caret-color: #c2fdef;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #c2fdef;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #c2fdef;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#c2fdef 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #c2fdef 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(194, 253, 239, 0.5)
rgb(194 253 239 / 50%)
#c2fdef80
hsl(166 94% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #c2fdef 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#c2fdef1a#F9FFFD
20%#c2fdef33#F3FFFC
40%#c2fdef66#E7FEF9
60%#c2fdef99#DAFEF5
80%#c2fdefcc#CEFDF2

Gradients from #c2fdef

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, #EBFEFA, #c2fdef 45%, #047B5F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #c2fdef, #A4CFFC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #c2fdef, #FDC2D0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFFB 0%, #c2fdef 45%, #047B5F 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%, #F3FFF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #DFF3FE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #047B5F 0%, transparent 65%), #c2fdef;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #c2fdef

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.

#c2fdef 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 18.59:1.

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.

#c2fdef, answered

What color is #c2fdef?

#c2fdef is a pale electric cyan, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 6.2). It sits at 166° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #c2fdef?

rgb(194, 253, 239) — 194 red, 253 green and 239 blue out of 255, or 76.1% / 99.2% / 93.7% by channel.

What is #c2fdef in HSL and HSV?

hsl(166, 94%, 88%) and hsv(166, 23%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #c2fdef a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8795 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.59:1.

Should I use black or white text on #c2fdef?

Black. It scores 18.59:1 against #c2fdef, versus 1.13:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #c2fdef accessible on a white background?

#c2fdef on white scores 1.13:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #048365 to reach 4.5:1, or #03614B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #c2fdef?

#FDC2D0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDC2ED and #FDD1C2, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #c2fdef?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE2 for borders, #4B9B88 for secondary text, #C90366 as an accent and #047B5F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #C2FDD1 and #C2EDFD stays calm, while #FDC2D0 is the loudest partner.

What is #c2fdef in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(23%, 0%, 6%, 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 #c2fdef warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 82 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #C2FDD9; nudged cooler, #C1F6FE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #c2fdef?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 20.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #c2fdef as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #c2fdef in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#c2fdef] or text-[#c2fdef], 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 #c2fdef with 50% opacity?

rgba(194, 253, 239, 0.5), or #c2fdef80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E1FEF7; over black, #617F78.

Is #c2fdef a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #c2fdef 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 #c2fdef?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFEFA, #c2fdef 45%, #047B5F). For more colour, a short hue run to #A4CFFC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #c2fdef in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #c2fdef at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.