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#ccccf8

a pale, electric blue · cool · closest name: Lavender

Token name suggestion: Whisper Harbour

RGB
204, 204, 248
HSL
240°, 76%, 89%
CMYK
18, 18, 0, 3
Luminance
0.6280

#ccccf8 is a pale electric blue, 240° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.56:1). As text it scores 1.55:1 on white — use #6565EA instead. Nearest name is Lavender, nearest Tailwind family is sky.

hsl(240 76% 89%)rgb(204 204 248)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ccccf8 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ccccf8
Hue
240°
blue
Saturation
76%
electric
Lightness
89%
pale
Brightness
97%
HSV value
Perceived
82%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6280
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.56:1
Closest name
Lavender
ΔE2000 9.4
Chroma
23.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.860
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
sky
500 · ΔE 27.5
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue240° of 360°
Saturation76%
Lightness89%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ccccf8.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool83% 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
Red20%
Green69%
Blue11%

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

Every format

HEX#ccccf8
HEX (8-digit)#ccccf8ff
RGBrgb(204, 204, 248)
RGBArgba(204, 204, 248, 1)
HSLhsl(240, 76%, 89%)
HSV / HSBhsv(240, 18%, 97%)
HWBhwb(240 80% 3%)
CMYKcmyk(18%, 18%, 0%, 3%)
LABlab(83.3 8.8 -21.6)
LCHlch(83.3 23.3 292.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.860 0.061 285.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(63.43, 62.80, 97.57)
Decimal13421816
Display P3color(display-p3 0.800 0.800 0.973)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ccccf8;
background-color: #ccccf8;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ccccf8;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ccccf8] bg-[#ccccf8]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ccccf8;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.800, green: 0.800, blue: 0.973)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.800, green: 0.800, blue: 0.973, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CCCCF8</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCCCCF8)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCCCCF8)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(248, 204, 204)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(204, 204, 248)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(204, 204, 248)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 204, 204, 248)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8000f, 0.8000f, 0.9725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{204,204,248}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ccccf8 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ccccf8 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0F0F70, #D3D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ccccf8 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: #F3F3FC;
  --brand-100: #E7E7F9;
  --brand-200: #ccccf8;
  --brand-300: #9C9CF1;
  --brand-400: #6B6BEB;
  --brand-500: #3A3AE4;
  --brand-600: #1D1DD7;
  --brand-700: #1919B3;
  --brand-800: #141490;
  --brand-900: #121268;
  --brand-950: #0C0C41;
  --brand: #ccccf8;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F4FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #ACACF4;
  --brand-pressed: #8D8DEF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141424;
    --brand-ink: #D3D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3F3FC',
        100: '#E7E7F9',
        200: '#ccccf8',
        300: '#9C9CF1',
        400: '#6B6BEB',
        500: '#3A3AE4',
        600: '#1D1DD7',
        700: '#1919B3',
        800: '#141490',
        900: '#121268',
        950: '#0C0C41',
        DEFAULT: '#ccccf8',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3F3FC,
  '100': #E7E7F9,
  '200': #ccccf8,
  '300': #9C9CF1,
  '400': #6B6BEB,
  '500': #3A3AE4,
  '600': #1D1DD7,
  '700': #1919B3,
  '800': #141490,
  '900': #121268,
  '950': #0C0C41,
);
$brand-base: #ccccf8;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3F3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7E7F9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ccccf8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9C9CF1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6B6BEB", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3A3AE4", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1D1DD7", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1919B3", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#141490", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#121268", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C0C41", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ccccf8 · 13.56:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.55:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.56:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ccccf8 as text scores 1.55:1 on white and 13.56:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0F0F70 at 10.25:1.

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
#6565EA · 4.56:1
AA on white−23% L
#6565EA
The quick fox
#3C3CE4 · 7.10:1
AAA on white−32% L
#3C3CE4
The quick fox
#ccccf8 · 13.56:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ccccf8
The quick fox
#ccccf8 · 13.56:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ccccf8

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #8989EF 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
#ccccf8 on white: 1.55:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ccccf8 on black: 13.56:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ccccf8 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ccccf8.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.55:1AaAa
Slate 501.48:1AaAa
Slate 1001.41:1AaAa
Slate 2001.26:1AaAa
Slate 3001.04:1AaAa
Slate 4001.66:1AaAa
Slate 5003.07:1AaAa
Slate 6004.89:1AaAa
Slate 7006.69:1AaAa
Slate 8009.45:1AaAa
Slate 90011.53:1AaAa
Black13.56:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C1D1FA
deuteranopia · #C0CEF7
tritanopia · #C3D3DB

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. #ccccf8 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.

#F3F3FC
#E7E7F9
#ccccf8
#9C9CF1
#6B6BEB
#3A3AE4
#1D1DD7
#1919B3
#141490
#121268
#0C0C41
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F3F3FCDarkest = 950 · #0C0C41Text step on white = 500
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 0.015 285.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 285.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 285.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.047 285.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.056 285.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.061 285.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.061 285.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.057 285.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.051 285.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.043 285.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 285.1);
}

Colors that work with #ccccf8

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#F4F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B4B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B79015
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0F0F70
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9E9FC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141424
Dark-mode background
Hover#ACACF4
One step down in lightness
Pressed#8D8DEF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D9D9FC
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #ccccf8

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
  • 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 #0F0F70
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #8989EF

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

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

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight11/100
  • 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#F8F8CC
Analogous left#CCE2F8
Analogous right#E2CCF8
Split-complement 1#F8E2CC
Split-complement 2#E2F8CC
Triadic 1#F8CCCC
Triadic 2#CCF8CC
Tetradic#F8CCE2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°240°

#ccccf8 sits at 240°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.0%
Green80.0%
Blue97.3%
R · 0–255
204
0xcc
G · 0–255
204
0xcc
B · 0–255
248
0xf8

CMYK percentages

Cyan17.7%
Magenta17.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)2.7%

Total ink coverage is 38%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ccccf8 text on a black background

contrast 13.56:1

Card sample

#ccccf8 text on a white background

contrast 1.55:1

Card sample

#ccccf8 on grey

1.41:1

#ccccf8 on its own surface

1.41:1

#ccccf8 on its dark surface

11.74:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ccccf8;
Background color
Panel with #ccccf8 background
background-color: #ccccf8;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ccccf8;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(204, 204, 248, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(204, 204, 248, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ccccf8;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ccccf8, #E9CCF8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ccccf8, #F4CCF8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ccccf8;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ccccf8;
caret-color: #ccccf8;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ccccf8;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9E9FC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ccccf8;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ccccf8 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ccccf8 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(204, 204, 248, 0.5)
rgb(204 204 248 / 50%)
#ccccf880
hsl(240 76% 89% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ccccf8 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ccccf81a#FAFAFE
20%#ccccf833#F5F5FE
40%#ccccf866#EBEBFC
60%#ccccf899#E0E0FB
80%#ccccf8cc#D6D6F9

Gradients from #ccccf8

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, #EDEDFD, #ccccf8 45%, #0F0F70);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ccccf8, #E3B1F4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ccccf8, #F8F8CC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F2F2FD 0%, #ccccf8 45%, #0F0F70 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #F9FCFE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F3E7FC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0F0F70 0%, transparent 65%), #ccccf8;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ccccf8

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.

#ccccf8 in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
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 13.56:1.

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.

#ccccf8, answered

What color is #ccccf8?

#ccccf8 is a pale electric blue, closest to Lavender (ΔE2000 9.4). It sits at 240° on the hue wheel with 76% saturation and 89% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ccccf8?

rgb(204, 204, 248) — 204 red, 204 green and 248 blue out of 255, or 80% / 80% / 97.3% by channel.

What is #ccccf8 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(240, 76%, 89%) and hsv(240, 18%, 97%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ccccf8 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6280 and perceived brightness is 82%, so black text on it reaches 13.56:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ccccf8?

Black. It scores 13.56:1 against #ccccf8, versus 1.55:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ccccf8 accessible on a white background?

#ccccf8 on white scores 1.55:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #6565EA to reach 4.5:1, or #3C3CE4 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ccccf8?

#F8F8CC sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F8E2CC and #E2F8CC, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ccccf8?

For interface work: #F4F4FA as the surface, #C0C0ED for borders, #4B4B9B for secondary text, #B79015 as an accent and #0F0F70 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CCE2F8 and #E2CCF8 stays calm, while #F8F8CC is the loudest partner.

What is #ccccf8 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(18%, 18%, 0%, 3%). 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 #ccccf8 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 83 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DCCCF8; nudged cooler, #CBDCF9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ccccf8?

The sky family — its 500 step is #0ea5e9, ΔE2000 27.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ccccf8 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ccccf8 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ccccf8] or text-[#ccccf8], 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 #ccccf8 with 50% opacity?

rgba(204, 204, 248, 0.5), or #ccccf880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E6E6FC; over black, #66667C.

Is #ccccf8 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 1.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ccccf8 mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #ccccf8?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EDEDFD, #ccccf8 45%, #0F0F70). For more colour, a short hue run to #E3B1F4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ccccf8 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ccccf8 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.