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#d0d7d7

a light, muted cyan · cool · closest name: Light Gray

Token name suggestion: Meadow Teal

RGB
208, 215, 215
HSL
180°, 8%, 83%
CMYK
3, 0, 0, 16
Luminance
0.6692

#d0d7d7 is a light muted cyan, 180° on the wheel and 59/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (14.38:1). As text it scores 1.46:1 on white — use #677979 instead. Nearest name is Light Gray, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(180 8% 83%)rgb(208 215 215)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d0d7d7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d0d7d7
Hue
180°
cyan
Saturation
8%
muted
Lightness
83%
light
Brightness
84%
HSV value
Perceived
84%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6692
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
59/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Muted
Best ink
Black
14.38:1
Closest name
Light Gray
ΔE2000 3.4
Chroma
2.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.874
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 23.5
Web-safe
#CCCCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue180° of 360°
Saturation8%
Lightness83%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d0d7d7.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool59% 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%
Green73%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#d0d7d7
HEX (8-digit)#d0d7d7ff
RGBrgb(208, 215, 215)
RGBArgba(208, 215, 215, 1)
HSLhsl(180, 8%, 83%)
HSV / HSBhsv(180, 3%, 84%)
HWBhwb(180 82% 16%)
CMYKcmyk(3%, 0%, 0%, 16%)
LABlab(85.5 -2.4 -0.8)
LCHlch(85.5 2.5 199.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.874 0.008 197.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(62.58, 66.92, 73.90)
Decimal13686743
Display P3color(display-p3 0.816 0.843 0.843)
Web-safe#CCCCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d0d7d7;
background-color: #d0d7d7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d0d7d7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d0d7d7] bg-[#d0d7d7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d0d7d7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.816, green: 0.843, blue: 0.843)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.816, green: 0.843, blue: 0.843, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D0D7D7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD0D7D7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD0D7D7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(215, 215, 208)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(208, 215, 215)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(208, 215, 215)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 208, 215, 215)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8157f, 0.8431f, 0.8431f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{208,215,215}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d0d7d7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d0d7d7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3B4545, #DEE3E3);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d0d7d7 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: #F7F8F8;
  --brand-100: #EFF1F1;
  --brand-200: #d0d7d7;
  --brand-300: #C2CBCB;
  --brand-400: #A4B2B2;
  --brand-500: #869898;
  --brand-600: #718484;
  --brand-700: #5E6E6E;
  --brand-800: #4B5858;
  --brand-900: #394242;
  --brand-950: #232929;
  --brand: #d0d7d7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F7F8F8;
  --brand-border: #D3D9D9;
  --brand-hover: #BDC6C6;
  --brand-pressed: #A9B6B6;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1A1E1E;
    --brand-ink: #DEE3E3;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F8F8',
        100: '#EFF1F1',
        200: '#d0d7d7',
        300: '#C2CBCB',
        400: '#A4B2B2',
        500: '#869898',
        600: '#718484',
        700: '#5E6E6E',
        800: '#4B5858',
        900: '#394242',
        950: '#232929',
        DEFAULT: '#d0d7d7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F8F8,
  '100': #EFF1F1,
  '200': #d0d7d7,
  '300': #C2CBCB,
  '400': #A4B2B2,
  '500': #869898,
  '600': #718484,
  '700': #5E6E6E,
  '800': #4B5858,
  '900': #394242,
  '950': #232929,
);
$brand-base: #d0d7d7;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F8F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFF1F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#d0d7d7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C2CBCB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A4B2B2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#869898", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#718484", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#5E6E6E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4B5858", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#394242", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#232929", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d0d7d7 · 14.38:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.46:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 14.38:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d0d7d7 as text scores 1.46:1 on white and 14.38:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #3B4545 at 6.77:1.

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
#677979 · 4.58:1
AA on white−39% L
#677979
The quick fox
#4D5B5B · 7.09:1
AAA on white−50% L
#4D5B5B
The quick fox
#d0d7d7 · 14.38:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d0d7d7
The quick fox
#d0d7d7 · 14.38:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d0d7d7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #869898 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
#d0d7d7 on white: 1.46:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d0d7d7 on black: 14.38:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d0d7d7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d0d7d7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.46:1AaAa
Slate 501.40:1AaAa
Slate 1001.33:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.76:1AaAa
Slate 5003.26:1AaAa
Slate 6005.19:1AaAa
Slate 7007.09:1AaAa
Slate 80010.02:1AaAa
Slate 90012.23:1AaAa
Black14.38:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D6D6D7
deuteranopia · #D4D5D7
tritanopia · #CED8D7

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. #d0d7d7 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.

#F7F8F8
#EFF1F1
#d0d7d7
#C2CBCB
#A4B2B2
#869898
#718484
#5E6E6E
#4B5858
#394242
#232929
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F7F8F8Darkest = 950 · #232929Text step on white = 700
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 0.002 197.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.003 197.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.005 197.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.006 197.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.007 197.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.008 197.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.008 197.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.007 197.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.006 197.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.005 197.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.004 197.0);
}

Colors that work with #d0d7d7

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#F7F8F8
Tinted page background
Border#D3D9D9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#6A7C7C
Captions on the surface
Accent#735960
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3B4545
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F1F3F3
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1A1E1E
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDC6C6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A9B6B6
Two steps down
Disabled#F4F6F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D8E4E4
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #d0d7d7

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Borders, dividers and quiet backgrounds
  • Long-form reading surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #3B4545
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #869898

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.

With almost no chroma left, the family association is barely present; treat it as a neutral that happens to lean this way. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyLow
  • Weight17/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityBalanced

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#D7D0D0
Analogous left#D0D7D3
Analogous right#D0D3D7
Split-complement 1#D7D0D3
Split-complement 2#D7D3D0
Triadic 1#D7D0D7
Triadic 2#D7D7D0
Tetradic#D3D0D7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°180°

#d0d7d7 sits at 180°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red81.6%
Green84.3%
Blue84.3%
R · 0–255
208
0xd0
G · 0–255
215
0xd7
B · 0–255
215
0xd7

CMYK percentages

Cyan3.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)15.7%

Total ink coverage is 19%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d0d7d7 text on a black background

contrast 14.38:1

Card sample

#d0d7d7 text on a white background

contrast 1.46:1

Card sample

#d0d7d7 on grey

1.33:1

#d0d7d7 on its own surface

1.37:1

#d0d7d7 on its dark surface

11.52:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d0d7d7;
Background color
Panel with #d0d7d7 background
background-color: #d0d7d7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d0d7d7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(208, 215, 215, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(208, 215, 215, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d0d7d7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d0d7d7, #D0D2D7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d0d7d7, #D0D0D7);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d0d7d7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d0d7d7;
caret-color: #d0d7d7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d0d7d7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F1F3F3;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d0d7d7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d0d7d7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d0d7d7 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(208, 215, 215, 0.5)
rgb(208 215 215 / 50%)
#d0d7d780
hsl(180 8% 83% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d0d7d7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d0d7d71a#FAFBFB
20%#d0d7d733#F6F7F7
40%#d0d7d766#ECEFEF
60%#d0d7d799#E3E7E7
80%#d0d7d7cc#D9DFDF

Gradients from #d0d7d7

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, #F1F3F3, #d0d7d7 45%, #3B4545);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d0d7d7, #BFC2C9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d0d7d7, #D7D0D0);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F7F8F8 0%, #d0d7d7 45%, #3B4545 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F8F8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #EBEEED 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #E0E2E5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3B4545 0%, transparent 65%), #d0d7d7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d0d7d7

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.

#d0d7d7 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
BackgroundsBordersBody textDividers
Print note

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

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 14.38:1.

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.

#d0d7d7, answered

What color is #d0d7d7?

#d0d7d7 is a light muted cyan, closest to Light Gray (ΔE2000 3.4). It sits at 180° on the hue wheel with 8% saturation and 83% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d0d7d7?

rgb(208, 215, 215) — 208 red, 215 green and 215 blue out of 255, or 81.6% / 84.3% / 84.3% by channel.

What is #d0d7d7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(180, 8%, 83%) and hsv(180, 3%, 84%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d0d7d7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6692 and perceived brightness is 84%, so black text on it reaches 14.38:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d0d7d7?

Black. It scores 14.38:1 against #d0d7d7, versus 1.46:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d0d7d7 accessible on a white background?

#d0d7d7 on white scores 1.46:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #677979 to reach 4.5:1, or #4D5B5B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d0d7d7?

#D7D0D0 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D7D0D3 and #D7D3D0, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d0d7d7?

For interface work: #F7F8F8 as the surface, #D3D9D9 for borders, #6A7C7C for secondary text, #735960 as an accent and #3B4545 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D0D7D3 and #D0D3D7 stays calm, while #D7D0D0 is the loudest partner.

What is #d0d7d7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(3%, 0%, 0%, 16%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d0d7d7 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 59 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DED8D3; nudged cooler, #C7CED5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d0d7d7?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 23.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d0d7d7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d0d7d7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d0d7d7] or text-[#d0d7d7], 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 #d0d7d7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(208, 215, 215, 0.5), or #d0d7d780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #E8EBEB; over black, #686C6C.

Is #d0d7d7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCCC, ΔE2000 4.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d0d7d7 mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this low chroma the association is faint; it behaves more like a neutral.

What gradient works with #d0d7d7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #F1F3F3, #d0d7d7 45%, #3B4545). For more colour, a short hue run to #BFC2C9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d0d7d7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d0d7d7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.