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#ceecf0

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

Token name suggestion: Whisper Lagoon

RGB
206, 236, 240
HSL
187°, 53%, 88%
CMYK
14, 2, 0, 6
Luminance
0.7940

#ceecf0 is a pale vivid cyan, 187° on the wheel and 90/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.88:1). As text it scores 1.24:1 on white — use #2A7F8B instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(187 53% 88%)rgb(206 236 240)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ceecf0 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ceecf0
Hue
187°
cyan
Saturation
53%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
94%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7940
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
90/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
16.88:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 4.3
Chroma
10.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.923
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 21.2
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue187° of 360°
Saturation53%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ceecf0.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool90% 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
Red17%
Green76%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#ceecf0
HEX (8-digit)#ceecf0ff
RGBrgb(206, 236, 240)
RGBArgba(206, 236, 240, 1)
HSLhsl(187, 53%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(187, 14%, 94%)
HWBhwb(187 81% 6%)
CMYKcmyk(14%, 2%, 0%, 6%)
LABlab(91.4 -9.0 -5.2)
LCHlch(91.4 10.4 210.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.923 0.032 206.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(71.17, 79.40, 94.00)
Decimal13561072
Display P3color(display-p3 0.808 0.925 0.941)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ceecf0;
background-color: #ceecf0;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ceecf0;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ceecf0] bg-[#ceecf0]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ceecf0;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.808, green: 0.925, blue: 0.941)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.808, green: 0.925, blue: 0.941, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CEECF0</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCEECF0)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCEECF0)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(240, 236, 206)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(206, 236, 240)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(206, 236, 240)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 206, 236, 240)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8078f, 0.9255f, 0.9412f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{206,236,240}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ceecf0 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ceecf0 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1E5A62, #D3EBEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ceecf0 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: #F4FAFB;
  --brand-100: #E9F5F6;
  --brand-200: #ceecf0;
  --brand-300: #A9DEE5;
  --brand-400: #7ECDD8;
  --brand-500: #53BCCA;
  --brand-600: #39ACBB;
  --brand-700: #308F9C;
  --brand-800: #26737D;
  --brand-900: #1F545B;
  --brand-950: #143539;
  --brand: #ceecf0;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C1E7EC;
  --brand-hover: #B3E1E8;
  --brand-pressed: #98D7DF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142224;
    --brand-ink: #D3EBEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FAFB',
        100: '#E9F5F6',
        200: '#ceecf0',
        300: '#A9DEE5',
        400: '#7ECDD8',
        500: '#53BCCA',
        600: '#39ACBB',
        700: '#308F9C',
        800: '#26737D',
        900: '#1F545B',
        950: '#143539',
        DEFAULT: '#ceecf0',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FAFB,
  '100': #E9F5F6,
  '200': #ceecf0,
  '300': #A9DEE5,
  '400': #7ECDD8,
  '500': #53BCCA,
  '600': #39ACBB,
  '700': #308F9C,
  '800': #26737D,
  '900': #1F545B,
  '950': #143539,
);
$brand-base: #ceecf0;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FAFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F5F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ceecf0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A9DEE5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7ECDD8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#53BCCA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#39ACBB", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#308F9C", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#26737D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1F545B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#143539", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ceecf0 · 16.88:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.24:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.88:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ceecf0 as text scores 1.24:1 on white and 16.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1E5A62 at 6.27:1.

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
#2A7F8B · 4.66:1
AA on white−52% L
#2A7F8B
The quick fox
#205F67 · 7.26:1
AAA on white−61% L
#205F67
The quick fox
#ceecf0 · 16.88:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ceecf0
The quick fox
#ceecf0 · 16.88:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ceecf0

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #359FAE 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
#ceecf0 on white: 1.24:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ceecf0 on black: 16.88:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ceecf0 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ceecf0.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.24:1AaAa
Slate 501.19:1AaAa
Slate 1001.14:1AaAa
Slate 2001.01:1AaAa
Slate 3001.19:1AaAa
Slate 4002.06:1AaAa
Slate 5003.83:1AaAa
Slate 6006.09:1AaAa
Slate 7008.32:1AaAa
Slate 80011.76:1AaAa
Slate 90014.35:1AaAa
Black16.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E7E9F0
deuteranopia · #E1E4F0
tritanopia · #C4EFED

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. #ceecf0 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.

#F4FAFB
#E9F5F6
#ceecf0
#A9DEE5
#7ECDD8
#53BCCA
#39ACBB
#308F9C
#26737D
#1F545B
#143539
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FAFBDarkest = 950 · #143539Text 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 0.008 206.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.013 206.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.019 206.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.025 206.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.029 206.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.032 206.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.032 206.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.030 206.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.027 206.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.022 206.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.018 206.4);
}

Colors that work with #ceecf0

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#C1E7EC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B919B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9F2D3D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1E5A62
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBF7F9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142224
Dark-mode background
Hover#B3E1E8
One step down in lightness
Pressed#98D7DF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCF4F7
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 #ceecf0

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 #1E5A62
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #359FAE

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
  • 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#F0D2CE
Analogous left#CEF0E3
Analogous right#CEDBF0
Split-complement 1#F0CEDB
Split-complement 2#F0E3CE
Triadic 1#F0CEEC
Triadic 2#ECF0CE
Tetradic#E3CEF0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°187°

#ceecf0 sits at 187°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.8%
Green92.5%
Blue94.1%
R · 0–255
206
0xce
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
240
0xf0

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.2%
Magenta1.7%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)5.9%

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

Color previews

#ceecf0 text on a black background

contrast 16.88:1

Card sample

#ceecf0 text on a white background

contrast 1.24:1

Card sample

#ceecf0 on grey

1.14:1

#ceecf0 on its own surface

1.18:1

#ceecf0 on its dark surface

13.15:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ceecf0;
Background color
Panel with #ceecf0 background
background-color: #ceecf0;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ceecf0;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(206, 236, 240, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(206, 236, 240, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ceecf0;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ceecf0, #CED5F0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceecf0, #CFCEF0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ceecf0;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ceecf0;
caret-color: #ceecf0;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ceecf0;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBF7F9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ceecf0;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ceecf0 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ceecf0 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(206, 236, 240, 0.5)
rgb(206 236 240 / 50%)
#ceecf080
hsl(187 53% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ceecf0 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ceecf01a#FAFDFE
20%#ceecf033#F5FBFC
40%#ceecf066#EBF7F9
60%#ceecf099#E2F4F6
80%#ceecf0cc#D8F0F3

Gradients from #ceecf0

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, #EFF9FA, #ceecf0 45%, #1E5A62);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ceecf0, #B7BDE9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceecf0, #F0D2CE);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FAFB 0%, #ceecf0 45%, #1E5A62 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%, #F5FCF9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E6EBF7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1E5A62 0%, transparent 65%), #ceecf0;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ceecf0

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.

#ceecf0 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 16.88:1.

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.

#ceecf0, answered

What color is #ceecf0?

#ceecf0 is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 4.3). It sits at 187° on the hue wheel with 53% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ceecf0?

rgb(206, 236, 240) — 206 red, 236 green and 240 blue out of 255, or 80.8% / 92.5% / 94.1% by channel.

What is #ceecf0 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(187, 53%, 88%) and hsv(187, 14%, 94%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ceecf0 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7940 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 16.88:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ceecf0?

Black. It scores 16.88:1 against #ceecf0, versus 1.24:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ceecf0 accessible on a white background?

#ceecf0 on white scores 1.24:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2A7F8B to reach 4.5:1, or #205F67 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ceecf0?

#F0D2CE sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F0CEDB and #F0E3CE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ceecf0?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C1E7EC for borders, #4B919B for secondary text, #9F2D3D as an accent and #1E5A62 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CEF0E3 and #CEDBF0 stays calm, while #F0D2CE is the loudest partner.

What is #ceecf0 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(14%, 2%, 0%, 6%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ceecf0 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 90 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CEF0E8; nudged cooler, #CEE0F1.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ceecf0?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 21.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ceecf0 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ceecf0 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ceecf0] or text-[#ceecf0], 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 #ceecf0 with 50% opacity?

rgba(206, 236, 240, 0.5), or #ceecf080 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F6F8; over black, #677678.

Is #ceecf0 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 6.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #ceecf0 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 #ceecf0?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFF9FA, #ceecf0 45%, #1E5A62). For more colour, a short hue run to #B7BDE9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ceecf0 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ceecf0 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.