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#cbfef7

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Reef

RGB
203, 254, 247
HSL
172°, 96%, 90%
CMYK
20, 0, 3, 0
Luminance
0.9030

#cbfef7 is a pale electric cyan, 172° on the wheel and 84/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (19.06:1). As text it scores 1.10:1 on white — use #038573 instead. Nearest name is Pale Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(172 96% 90%)rgb(203 254 247)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #cbfef7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#cbfef7
Hue
172°
cyan
Saturation
96%
electric
Lightness
90%
pale
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
94%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9030
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
84/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
19.06:1
Closest name
Pale Turquoise
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
17.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.960
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 22.3
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue172° of 360°
Saturation96%
Lightness90%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #cbfef7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool84% 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#cbfef7
HEX (8-digit)#cbfef7ff
RGBrgb(203, 254, 247)
RGBArgba(203, 254, 247, 1)
HSLhsl(172, 96%, 90%)
HSV / HSBhsv(172, 20%, 100%)
HWBhwb(172 80% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(20%, 0%, 3%, 0%)
LABlab(96.1 -17.4 -2.0)
LCHlch(96.1 17.6 186.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.960 0.052 186.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(76.85, 90.29, 101.36)
Decimal13369079
Display P3color(display-p3 0.796 0.996 0.969)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #cbfef7;
background-color: #cbfef7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #cbfef7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#cbfef7] bg-[#cbfef7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #cbfef7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.796, green: 0.996, blue: 0.969)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.796, green: 0.996, blue: 0.969, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CBFEF7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCBFEF7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCBFEF7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(247, 254, 203)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(203, 254, 247)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(203, 254, 247)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 203, 254, 247)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.7961f, 0.9961f, 0.9686f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{203,254,247}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #cbfef7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #cbfef7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#027D6C, #D3EEEA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #cbfef7 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: #F1FDFC;
  --brand-100: #E4FCF8;
  --brand-200: #cbfef7;
  --brand-300: #91FDEE;
  --brand-400: #5AFCE6;
  --brand-500: #23FBDD;
  --brand-600: #05F0D0;
  --brand-700: #04C8AD;
  --brand-800: #03A08B;
  --brand-900: #077365;
  --brand-950: #04483F;
  --brand: #cbfef7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE7;
  --brand-hover: #A8FDF2;
  --brand-pressed: #85FDEC;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDFC',
        100: '#E4FCF8',
        200: '#cbfef7',
        300: '#91FDEE',
        400: '#5AFCE6',
        500: '#23FBDD',
        600: '#05F0D0',
        700: '#04C8AD',
        800: '#03A08B',
        900: '#077365',
        950: '#04483F',
        DEFAULT: '#cbfef7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDFC,
  '100': #E4FCF8,
  '200': #cbfef7,
  '300': #91FDEE,
  '400': #5AFCE6,
  '500': #23FBDD,
  '600': #05F0D0,
  '700': #04C8AD,
  '800': #03A08B,
  '900': #077365,
  '950': #04483F,
);
$brand-base: #cbfef7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDFC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FCF8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#cbfef7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#91FDEE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5AFCE6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#23FBDD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#05F0D0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#04C8AD", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#03A08B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#077365", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#04483F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #cbfef7 · 19.06:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.10:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 19.06:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #cbfef7 as text scores 1.10:1 on white and 19.06:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #027D6C at 4.59:1.

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
#038573 · 4.56:1
AA on white−63% L
#038573
The quick fox
#026255 · 7.29:1
AAA on white−70% L
#026255
The quick fox
#cbfef7 · 19.06:1
AA on blackalready passes
#cbfef7
The quick fox
#cbfef7 · 19.06:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#cbfef7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #03A38D 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
#cbfef7 on white: 1.10:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#cbfef7 on black: 19.06:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #cbfef7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #cbfef7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.10:1AaAa
Slate 501.05:1AaAa
Slate 1001.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.12:1AaAa
Slate 3001.35:1AaAa
Slate 4002.33:1AaAa
Slate 5004.32:1AaAa
Slate 6006.88:1AaAa
Slate 7009.40:1AaAa
Slate 80013.28:1AaAa
Slate 90016.20:1AaAa
Black19.06:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F9F8F7
deuteranopia · #EFF1F8
tritanopia · #BDFFFC

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. #cbfef7 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.

#F1FDFC
#E4FCF8
#cbfef7
#91FDEE
#5AFCE6
#23FBDD
#05F0D0
#04C8AD
#03A08B
#077365
#04483F
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F1FDFCDarkest = 950 · #04483FText 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 0.013 186.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.021 186.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.032 186.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.041 186.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.048 186.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.052 186.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.052 186.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.049 186.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.044 186.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.037 186.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.029 186.1);
}

Colors that work with #cbfef7

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#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE7
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B90
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC004D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#027D6C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#A8FDF2
One step down in lightness
Pressed#85FDEC
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D6FFF9
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 #cbfef7

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 #027D6C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #03A38D

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
  • Weight10/100
  • 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#FECBD2
Analogous left#CBFEDE
Analogous right#CBEBFE
Split-complement 1#FECBEB
Split-complement 2#FEDECB
Triadic 1#F7CBFE
Triadic 2#FEF7CB
Tetradic#DECBFE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°172°

#cbfef7 sits at 172°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red79.6%
Green99.6%
Blue96.9%
R · 0–255
203
0xcb
G · 0–255
254
0xfe
B · 0–255
247
0xf7

CMYK percentages

Cyan20.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow2.8%
Key (black)0.4%

Total ink coverage is 23%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#cbfef7 text on a black background

contrast 19.06:1

Card sample

#cbfef7 text on a white background

contrast 1.10:1

Card sample

#cbfef7 on grey

1.01:1

#cbfef7 on its own surface

1.04:1

#cbfef7 on its dark surface

14.60:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #cbfef7;
Background color
Panel with #cbfef7 background
background-color: #cbfef7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #cbfef7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(203, 254, 247, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(203, 254, 247, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #cbfef7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cbfef7, #CBE3FE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cbfef7, #CBD6FE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #cbfef7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #cbfef7;
caret-color: #cbfef7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #cbfef7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #cbfef7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#cbfef7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #cbfef7 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(203, 254, 247, 0.5)
rgb(203 254 247 / 50%)
#cbfef780
hsl(172 96% 90% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #cbfef7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#cbfef71a#FAFFFE
20%#cbfef733#F5FFFD
40%#cbfef766#EAFFFC
60%#cbfef799#E0FEFA
80%#cbfef7cc#D5FEF9

Gradients from #cbfef7

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, #EBFFFC, #cbfef7 45%, #027D6C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #cbfef7, #ADCCFD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cbfef7, #FECBD2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0FFFD 0%, #cbfef7 45%, #027D6C 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAFA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FDFFFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E9F5FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #027D6C 0%, transparent 65%), #cbfef7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #cbfef7

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.

#cbfef7 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 19.06:1.

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.

#cbfef7, answered

What color is #cbfef7?

#cbfef7 is a pale electric cyan, closest to Pale Turquoise (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 172° on the hue wheel with 96% saturation and 90% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #cbfef7?

rgb(203, 254, 247) — 203 red, 254 green and 247 blue out of 255, or 79.6% / 99.6% / 96.9% by channel.

What is #cbfef7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(172, 96%, 90%) and hsv(172, 20%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #cbfef7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9030 and perceived brightness is 94%, so black text on it reaches 19.06:1.

Should I use black or white text on #cbfef7?

Black. It scores 19.06:1 against #cbfef7, versus 1.10:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #cbfef7 accessible on a white background?

#cbfef7 on white scores 1.10:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #038573 to reach 4.5:1, or #026255 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #cbfef7?

#FECBD2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FECBEB and #FEDECB, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #cbfef7?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE7 for borders, #4B9B90 for secondary text, #CC004D as an accent and #027D6C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CBFEDE and #CBEBFE stays calm, while #FECBD2 is the loudest partner.

What is #cbfef7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(20%, 0%, 3%, 0%). 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 #cbfef7 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 84 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CBFEE4; nudged cooler, #CAF3FF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #cbfef7?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 22.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #cbfef7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #cbfef7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#cbfef7] or text-[#cbfef7], 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 #cbfef7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(203, 254, 247, 0.5), or #cbfef780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E5FFFB; over black, #667F7C.

Is #cbfef7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 2.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #cbfef7 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 #cbfef7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EBFFFC, #cbfef7 45%, #027D6C). For more colour, a short hue run to #ADCCFD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #cbfef7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #cbfef7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.