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#ccebec

a pale, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Light Cyan

Token name suggestion: Whisper Teal

RGB
204, 235, 236
HSL
182°, 46%, 86%
CMYK
14, 0, 0, 8
Luminance
0.7831

#ccebec is a pale vivid cyan, 182° on the wheel and 88/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.66:1). As text it scores 1.26:1 on white — use #318183 instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(182 46% 86%)rgb(204 235 236)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#ccebec
Hue
182°
cyan
Saturation
46%
vivid
Lightness
86%
pale
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7831
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
88/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.66:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 4.2
Chroma
10.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.918
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 21.3
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue182° of 360°
Saturation46%
Lightness86%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool88% 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
Red16%
Green76%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#ccebec
HEX (8-digit)#ccebecff
RGBrgb(204, 235, 236)
RGBArgba(204, 235, 236, 1)
HSLhsl(182, 46%, 86%)
HSV / HSBhsv(182, 14%, 93%)
HWBhwb(182 80% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(14%, 0%, 0%, 8%)
LABlab(90.9 -9.9 -3.9)
LCHlch(90.9 10.6 201.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.918 0.033 199.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(69.75, 78.31, 90.78)
Decimal13429740
Display P3color(display-p3 0.800 0.922 0.925)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ccebec;
background-color: #ccebec;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ccebec;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ccebec] bg-[#ccebec]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ccebec;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.800, green: 0.922, blue: 0.925)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.800, green: 0.922, blue: 0.925, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CCEBEC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCCEBEC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCCEBEC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(236, 235, 204)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(204, 235, 236)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(204, 235, 236)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 204, 235, 236)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8000f, 0.9216f, 0.9255f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{204,235,236}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ccebec 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ccebec 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#235B5D, #D3EDEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ccebec 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: #F5FAFA;
  --brand-100: #EAF5F5;
  --brand-200: #ccebec;
  --brand-300: #ADDFE1;
  --brand-400: #84CFD1;
  --brand-500: #5CBFC2;
  --brand-600: #42AFB2;
  --brand-700: #379295;
  --brand-800: #2C7577;
  --brand-900: #235557;
  --brand-950: #163536;
  --brand: #ccebec;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C4E8E9;
  --brand-hover: #B2E1E2;
  --brand-pressed: #98D7D9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EDEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAFA',
        100: '#EAF5F5',
        200: '#ccebec',
        300: '#ADDFE1',
        400: '#84CFD1',
        500: '#5CBFC2',
        600: '#42AFB2',
        700: '#379295',
        800: '#2C7577',
        900: '#235557',
        950: '#163536',
        DEFAULT: '#ccebec',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAFA,
  '100': #EAF5F5,
  '200': #ccebec,
  '300': #ADDFE1,
  '400': #84CFD1,
  '500': #5CBFC2,
  '600': #42AFB2,
  '700': #379295,
  '800': #2C7577,
  '900': #235557,
  '950': #163536,
);
$brand-base: #ccebec;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5F5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ccebec", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ADDFE1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#84CFD1", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5CBFC2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#42AFB2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#379295", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2C7577", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#235557", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#163536", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ccebec · 16.66:1
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 · 16.66:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ccebec as text scores 1.26:1 on white and 16.66:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #235B5D at 6.11:1.

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
#318183 · 4.57:1
AA on white−51% L
#318183
The quick fox
#246062 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−60% L
#246062
The quick fox
#ccebec · 16.66:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ccebec
The quick fox
#ccebec · 16.66:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ccebec

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3DA1A5 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
#ccebec on white: 1.26:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ccebec on black: 16.66:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.26:1AaAa
Slate 501.20:1AaAa
Slate 1001.15:1AaAa
Slate 2001.02:1AaAa
Slate 3001.18:1AaAa
Slate 4002.03:1AaAa
Slate 5003.78:1AaAa
Slate 6006.01:1AaAa
Slate 7008.22:1AaAa
Slate 80011.61:1AaAa
Slate 90014.16:1AaAa
Black16.66:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E6E8EC
deuteranopia · #E0E3EC
tritanopia · #C3EDEB

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. #ccebec 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.

#F5FAFA
#EAF5F5
#ccebec
#ADDFE1
#84CFD1
#5CBFC2
#42AFB2
#379295
#2C7577
#235557
#163536
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F5FAFADarkest = 950 · #163536Text 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 0.008 199.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.013 199.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.019 199.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.025 199.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.030 199.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.033 199.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.033 199.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.031 199.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.027 199.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.023 199.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.018 199.0);
}

Colors that work with #ccebec

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#C4E8E9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B989B
Captions on the surface
Accent#983449
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#235B5D
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8F8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#B2E1E2
One step down in lightness
Pressed#98D7D9
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D8F3F4
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 #ccebec

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 #235B5D
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3DA1A5

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight14/100
  • 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#ECCDCC
Analogous left#CCECDD
Analogous right#CCDBEC
Split-complement 1#ECCCDB
Split-complement 2#ECDDCC
Triadic 1#ECCCEB
Triadic 2#EBECCC
Tetradic#DDCCEC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°182°

#ccebec sits at 182°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.0%
Green92.2%
Blue92.5%
R · 0–255
204
0xcc
G · 0–255
235
0xeb
B · 0–255
236
0xec

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.6%
Magenta0.4%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)7.5%

Total ink coverage is 22%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ccebec text on a black background

contrast 16.66:1

Card sample

#ccebec text on a white background

contrast 1.26:1

Card sample

#ccebec on grey

1.15:1

#ccebec on its own surface

1.19:1

#ccebec on its dark surface

12.74:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(204, 235, 236, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(204, 235, 236, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ccebec;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ccebec, #CCD6EC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

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

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ccebec;
caret-color: #ccebec;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ccebec;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8F8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ccebec;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ccebec 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ccebec 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, 235, 236, 0.5)
rgb(204 235 236 / 50%)
#ccebec80
hsl(182 46% 86% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ccebec 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ccebec1a#FAFDFD
20%#ccebec33#F5FBFB
40%#ccebec66#EBF7F7
60%#ccebec99#E0F3F4
80%#ccebeccc#D6EFF0

Gradients from #ccebec

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, #F0F9F9, #ccebec 45%, #235B5D);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ccebec, #B6C0E4);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ccebec, #ECCDCC);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FBFB 0%, #ccebec 45%, #235B5D 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%, #F1FAF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E2E9F4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #235B5D 0%, transparent 65%), #ccebec;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ccebec

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.

#ccebec 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

Very light tints can drop out on uncoated stock; check it at 100% size before signing off.

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 16.66:1.

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.

#ccebec, answered

What color is #ccebec?

#ccebec is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 4.2). It sits at 182° on the hue wheel with 46% saturation and 86% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ccebec?

rgb(204, 235, 236) — 204 red, 235 green and 236 blue out of 255, or 80% / 92.2% / 92.5% by channel.

What is #ccebec in HSL and HSV?

hsl(182, 46%, 86%) and hsv(182, 14%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ccebec a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7831 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 16.66:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ccebec?

Black. It scores 16.66:1 against #ccebec, versus 1.26:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ccebec accessible on a white background?

#ccebec on white scores 1.26:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #318183 to reach 4.5:1, or #246062 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ccebec?

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

What colors go well with #ccebec?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C4E8E9 for borders, #4B989B for secondary text, #983449 as an accent and #235B5D for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CCECDD and #CCDBEC stays calm, while #ECCDCC is the loudest partner.

What is #ccebec in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(14%, 0%, 0%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ccebec warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 88 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CCECE1; nudged cooler, #CBDFED.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ccebec?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 21.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ccebec as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ccebec in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(204, 235, 236, 0.5), or #ccebec80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E6F5F6; over black, #667676.

Is #ccebec a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 5.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ccebec 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 #ccebec?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0F9F9, #ccebec 45%, #235B5D). For more colour, a short hue run to #B6C0E4 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ccebec in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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