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#cff2f1

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

Token name suggestion: Frost Reef

RGB
207, 242, 241
HSL
178°, 57%, 88%
CMYK
15, 0, 0, 5
Luminance
0.8312

#cff2f1 is a pale vivid cyan, 178° on the wheel and 87/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.62:1). As text it scores 1.19:1 on white — use #23807E instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(178 57% 88%)rgb(207 242 241)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #cff2f1 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#cff2f1
Hue
178°
cyan
Saturation
57%
vivid
Lightness
88%
pale
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
91%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8312
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
87/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
17.62:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 3.2
Chroma
11.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.936
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 22.2
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue178° of 360°
Saturation57%
Lightness88%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #cff2f1.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool87% 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#cff2f1
HEX (8-digit)#cff2f1ff
RGBrgb(207, 242, 241)
RGBArgba(207, 242, 241, 1)
HSLhsl(178, 57%, 88%)
HSV / HSBhsv(178, 14%, 95%)
HWBhwb(178 81% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 0%, 0%, 5%)
LABlab(93.1 -11.5 -3.3)
LCHlch(93.1 11.9 196.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.936 0.036 194.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(73.36, 83.12, 95.38)
Decimal13628145
Display P3color(display-p3 0.812 0.949 0.945)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #cff2f1;
background-color: #cff2f1;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #cff2f1;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#cff2f1] bg-[#cff2f1]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #cff2f1;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.812, green: 0.949, blue: 0.945)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.812, green: 0.949, blue: 0.945, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#CFF2F1</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFCFF2F1)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFCFF2F1)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(241, 242, 207)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(207, 242, 241)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(207, 242, 241)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 207, 242, 241)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8118f, 0.9490f, 0.9451f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{207,242,241}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #cff2f1 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #cff2f1 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1B6462, #D3EEED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #cff2f1 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: #F4FBFB;
  --brand-100: #E9F7F6;
  --brand-200: #cff2f1;
  --brand-300: #A7E7E5;
  --brand-400: #7BDBD8;
  --brand-500: #4ECFCC;
  --brand-600: #34C1BD;
  --brand-700: #2BA19D;
  --brand-800: #23807E;
  --brand-900: #1D5E5C;
  --brand-950: #123A39;
  --brand: #cff2f1;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDEB;
  --brand-hover: #B3EAE9;
  --brand-pressed: #97E3E1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBFB',
        100: '#E9F7F6',
        200: '#cff2f1',
        300: '#A7E7E5',
        400: '#7BDBD8',
        500: '#4ECFCC',
        600: '#34C1BD',
        700: '#2BA19D',
        800: '#23807E',
        900: '#1D5E5C',
        950: '#123A39',
        DEFAULT: '#cff2f1',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBFB,
  '100': #E9F7F6,
  '200': #cff2f1,
  '300': #A7E7E5,
  '400': #7BDBD8,
  '500': #4ECFCC,
  '600': #34C1BD,
  '700': #2BA19D,
  '800': #23807E,
  '900': #1D5E5C,
  '950': #123A39,
);
$brand-base: #cff2f1;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F7F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#cff2f1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A7E7E5", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7BDBD8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4ECFCC", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#34C1BD", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2BA19D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#23807E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1D5E5C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#123A39", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #cff2f1 · 17.62:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.19:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.62:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #cff2f1 as text scores 1.19:1 on white and 17.62:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1B6462 at 5.79:1.

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
#23807E · 4.71:1
AA on white−56% L
#23807E
The quick fox
#1A605E · 7.29:1
AAA on white−64% L
#1A605E
The quick fox
#cff2f1 · 17.62:1
AA on blackalready passes
#cff2f1
The quick fox
#cff2f1 · 17.62:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#cff2f1

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2DA5A1 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
#cff2f1 on white: 1.19:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#cff2f1 on black: 17.62:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #cff2f1 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #cff2f1.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.19:1AaAa
Slate 501.14:1AaAa
Slate 1001.09:1AaAa
Slate 2001.03:1AaAa
Slate 3001.25:1AaAa
Slate 4002.15:1AaAa
Slate 5003.99:1AaAa
Slate 6006.36:1AaAa
Slate 7008.69:1AaAa
Slate 80012.28:1AaAa
Slate 90014.98:1AaAa
Black17.62:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EDEEF1
deuteranopia · #E6E9F1
tritanopia · #C5F4F2

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. #cff2f1 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.

#F4FBFB
#E9F7F6
#cff2f1
#A7E7E5
#7BDBD8
#4ECFCC
#34C1BD
#2BA19D
#23807E
#1D5E5C
#123A39
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FBFBDarkest = 950 · #123A39Text 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 0.009 194.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.015 194.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.022 194.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.028 194.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.033 194.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.036 194.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.036 194.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.034 194.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.030 194.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.025 194.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.020 194.4);
}

Colors that work with #cff2f1

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#C0EDEB
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B99
Captions on the surface
Accent#A4284A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1B6462
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBFAF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#B3EAE9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#97E3E1
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DDF8F8
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 #cff2f1

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 #1B6462
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2DA5A1

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
  • Weight12/100
  • 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#F2CFD0
Analogous left#CFF2DF
Analogous right#CFE1F2
Split-complement 1#F2CFE1
Split-complement 2#F2DFCF
Triadic 1#F1CFF2
Triadic 2#F2F1CF
Tetradic#DFCFF2
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°178°

#cff2f1 sits at 178°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red81.2%
Green94.9%
Blue94.5%
R · 0–255
207
0xcf
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
241
0xf1

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow0.4%
Key (black)5.1%

Total ink coverage is 20%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#cff2f1 text on a black background

contrast 17.62:1

Card sample

#cff2f1 text on a white background

contrast 1.19:1

Card sample

#cff2f1 on grey

1.09:1

#cff2f1 on its own surface

1.13:1

#cff2f1 on its dark surface

13.48:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #cff2f1;
Background color
Panel with #cff2f1 background
background-color: #cff2f1;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #cff2f1;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(207, 242, 241, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(207, 242, 241, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #cff2f1;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #cff2f1, #CFDCF2);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cff2f1, #CFD3F2);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #cff2f1;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #cff2f1;
caret-color: #cff2f1;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #cff2f1;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBFAF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #cff2f1;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#cff2f1 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #cff2f1 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(207, 242, 241, 0.5)
rgb(207 242 241 / 50%)
#cff2f180
hsl(178 57% 88% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #cff2f1 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#cff2f11a#FAFEFE
20%#cff2f133#F5FCFC
40%#cff2f166#ECFAF9
60%#cff2f199#E2F7F7
80%#cff2f1cc#D9F5F4

Gradients from #cff2f1

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, #EFFBFA, #cff2f1 45%, #1B6462);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #cff2f1, #B7C5EB);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #cff2f1, #F2CFD0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FCFB 0%, #cff2f1 45%, #1B6462 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%, #F7FDF9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E7EFF8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1B6462 0%, transparent 65%), #cff2f1;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #cff2f1

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.

#cff2f1 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 17.62:1.

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.

#cff2f1, answered

What color is #cff2f1?

#cff2f1 is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 3.2). It sits at 178° on the hue wheel with 57% saturation and 88% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #cff2f1?

rgb(207, 242, 241) — 207 red, 242 green and 241 blue out of 255, or 81.2% / 94.9% / 94.5% by channel.

What is #cff2f1 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(178, 57%, 88%) and hsv(178, 14%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #cff2f1 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8312 and perceived brightness is 91%, so black text on it reaches 17.62:1.

Should I use black or white text on #cff2f1?

Black. It scores 17.62:1 against #cff2f1, versus 1.19:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #cff2f1 accessible on a white background?

#cff2f1 on white scores 1.19:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #23807E to reach 4.5:1, or #1A605E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #cff2f1?

#F2CFD0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F2CFE1 and #F2DFCF, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #cff2f1?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDEB for borders, #4B9B99 for secondary text, #A4284A as an accent and #1B6462 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #CFF2DF and #CFE1F2 stays calm, while #F2CFD0 is the loudest partner.

What is #cff2f1 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 0%, 0%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #cff2f1 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 87 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #CFF2E4; nudged cooler, #CEE6F3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #cff2f1?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 22.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #cff2f1 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #cff2f1 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#cff2f1] or text-[#cff2f1], 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 #cff2f1 with 50% opacity?

rgba(207, 242, 241, 0.5), or #cff2f180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E7F9F8; over black, #687979.

Is #cff2f1 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 4.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #cff2f1 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 #cff2f1?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFFBFA, #cff2f1 45%, #1B6462). For more colour, a short hue run to #B7C5EB keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #cff2f1 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #cff2f1 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.