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#ceeee6

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Reef

RGB
206, 238, 230
HSL
165°, 49%, 87%
CMYK
13, 0, 3, 7
Luminance
0.7998

#ceeee6 is a pale vivid cyan, 165° on the wheel and 81/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.00:1). As text it scores 1.24:1 on white — use #2D816C instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(165 49% 87%)rgb(206 238 230)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #ceeee6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#ceeee6
Hue
165°
cyan
Saturation
49%
vivid
Lightness
87%
pale
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
89%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7998
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
81/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
17.00:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 5.2
Chroma
11.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.924
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 22.1
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue165° of 360°
Saturation49%
Lightness87%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #ceeee6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool81% 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%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#ceeee6
HEX (8-digit)#ceeee6ff
RGBrgb(206, 238, 230)
RGBArgba(206, 238, 230, 1)
HSLhsl(165, 49%, 87%)
HSV / HSBhsv(165, 13%, 93%)
HWBhwb(165 81% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(13%, 0%, 3%, 7%)
LABlab(91.7 -11.9 0.4)
LCHlch(91.7 11.9 178.3)
OKLCHoklch(0.924 0.035 178.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(70.31, 79.98, 86.58)
Decimal13561574
Display P3color(display-p3 0.808 0.933 0.902)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #ceeee6;
background-color: #ceeee6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #ceeee6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#ceeee6] bg-[#ceeee6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #ceeee6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.808, green: 0.933, blue: 0.902)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.808, green: 0.933, blue: 0.902, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CEEEE6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCEEEE6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCEEEE6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(230, 238, 206)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(206, 238, 230)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(206, 238, 230)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 206, 238, 230)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8078f, 0.9333f, 0.9020f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{206,238,230}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #ceeee6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #ceeee6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#215F4F, #D3EEE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #ceeee6 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: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-100: #EAF5F3;
  --brand-200: #ceeee6;
  --brand-300: #ACE2D5;
  --brand-400: #82D4BF;
  --brand-500: #58C5AA;
  --brand-600: #3FB698;
  --brand-700: #35977F;
  --brand-800: #2A7965;
  --brand-900: #22594B;
  --brand-950: #15372F;
  --brand: #ceeee6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C2EAE0;
  --brand-hover: #B4E5D9;
  --brand-pressed: #99DCCB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FAF9',
        100: '#EAF5F3',
        200: '#ceeee6',
        300: '#ACE2D5',
        400: '#82D4BF',
        500: '#58C5AA',
        600: '#3FB698',
        700: '#35977F',
        800: '#2A7965',
        900: '#22594B',
        950: '#15372F',
        DEFAULT: '#ceeee6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FAF9,
  '100': #EAF5F3,
  '200': #ceeee6,
  '300': #ACE2D5,
  '400': #82D4BF,
  '500': #58C5AA,
  '600': #3FB698,
  '700': #35977F,
  '800': #2A7965,
  '900': #22594B,
  '950': #15372F,
);
$brand-base: #ceeee6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FAF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#ceeee6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ACE2D5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#82D4BF", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#58C5AA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3FB698", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#35977F", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2A7965", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#22594B", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#15372F", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #ceeee6 · 17.00:1
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 · 17.00:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #ceeee6 as text scores 1.24:1 on white and 17.00:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #215F4F at 6.04:1.

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
#2D816C · 4.70:1
AA on white−53% L
#2D816C
The quick fox
#226353 · 7.05:1
AAA on white−61% L
#226353
The quick fox
#ceeee6 · 17.00:1
AA on blackalready passes
#ceeee6
The quick fox
#ceeee6 · 17.00:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#ceeee6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #39A389 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
#ceeee6 on white: 1.24:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#ceeee6 on black: 17.00:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #ceeee6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #ceeee6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.24:1AaAa
Slate 501.18:1AaAa
Slate 1001.13:1AaAa
Slate 2001.00:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4002.08:1AaAa
Slate 5003.85:1AaAa
Slate 6006.13:1AaAa
Slate 7008.38:1AaAa
Slate 80011.84:1AaAa
Slate 90014.45:1AaAa
Black17.00:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EBEAE6
deuteranopia · #E5E5E7
tritanopia · #C6EFEB

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. #ceeee6 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.

#F4FAF9
#EAF5F3
#ceeee6
#ACE2D5
#82D4BF
#58C5AA
#3FB698
#35977F
#2A7965
#22594B
#15372F
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FAF9Darkest = 950 · #15372FText 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 0.009 178.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.014 178.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.021 178.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.027 178.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.032 178.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.035 178.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.035 178.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.033 178.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.029 178.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.025 178.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.019 178.7);
}

Colors that work with #ceeee6

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#C2EAE0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B87
Captions on the surface
Accent#9B3166
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#215F4F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8F5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#B4E5D9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#99DCCB
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DBF6EF
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 #ceeee6

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 #215F4F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #39A389

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#EECED6
Analogous left#CEEED6
Analogous right#CEE6EE
Split-complement 1#EECEE6
Split-complement 2#EED6CE
Triadic 1#E6CEEE
Triadic 2#EEE6CE
Tetradic#D6CEEE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°165°

#ceeee6 sits at 165°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red80.8%
Green93.3%
Blue90.2%
R · 0–255
206
0xce
G · 0–255
238
0xee
B · 0–255
230
0xe6

CMYK percentages

Cyan13.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow3.4%
Key (black)6.7%

Total ink coverage is 24%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#ceeee6 text on a black background

contrast 17.00:1

Card sample

#ceeee6 text on a white background

contrast 1.24:1

Card sample

#ceeee6 on grey

1.13:1

#ceeee6 on its own surface

1.17:1

#ceeee6 on its dark surface

13.04:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #ceeee6;
Background color
Panel with #ceeee6 background
background-color: #ceeee6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #ceeee6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(206, 238, 230, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(206, 238, 230, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #ceeee6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #ceeee6, #CEE1EE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceeee6, #CED9EE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #ceeee6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #ceeee6;
caret-color: #ceeee6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #ceeee6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8F5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #ceeee6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#ceeee6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #ceeee6 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, 238, 230, 0.5)
rgb(206 238 230 / 50%)
#ceeee680
hsl(165 49% 87% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #ceeee6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#ceeee61a#FAFDFD
20%#ceeee633#F5FCFA
40%#ceeee666#EBF8F5
60%#ceeee699#E2F5F0
80%#ceeee6cc#D8F1EB

Gradients from #ceeee6

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, #F0FAF7, #ceeee6 45%, #215F4F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #ceeee6, #B7CFE6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ceeee6, #EECED6);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F4FBF9 0%, #ceeee6 45%, #215F4F 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%, #F4FBF5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E5F0F6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #215F4F 0%, transparent 65%), #ceeee6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #ceeee6

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.

#ceeee6 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 17.00:1.

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.

#ceeee6, answered

What color is #ceeee6?

#ceeee6 is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 5.2). It sits at 165° on the hue wheel with 49% saturation and 87% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #ceeee6?

rgb(206, 238, 230) — 206 red, 238 green and 230 blue out of 255, or 80.8% / 93.3% / 90.2% by channel.

What is #ceeee6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(165, 49%, 87%) and hsv(165, 13%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #ceeee6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7998 and perceived brightness is 89%, so black text on it reaches 17.00:1.

Should I use black or white text on #ceeee6?

Black. It scores 17.00:1 against #ceeee6, versus 1.24:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #ceeee6 accessible on a white background?

#ceeee6 on white scores 1.24:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2D816C to reach 4.5:1, or #226353 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #ceeee6?

#EECED6 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EECEE6 and #EED6CE, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #ceeee6?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C2EAE0 for borders, #4B9B87 for secondary text, #9B3166 as an accent and #215F4F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CEEED6 and #CEE6EE stays calm, while #EECED6 is the loudest partner.

What is #ceeee6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(13%, 0%, 3%, 7%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #ceeee6 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 81 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CEEEDA; nudged cooler, #CDEBEF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #ceeee6?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 22.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #ceeee6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #ceeee6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#ceeee6] or text-[#ceeee6], 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 #ceeee6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(206, 238, 230, 0.5), or #ceeee680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F7F3; over black, #677773.

Is #ceeee6 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 #ceeee6 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 #ceeee6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F0FAF7, #ceeee6 45%, #215F4F). For more colour, a short hue run to #B7CFE6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #ceeee6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #ceeee6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.