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#d8f0fd

a pale, electric blue · cool · closest name: Alice Blue

Token name suggestion: Frost Harbour

RGB
216, 240, 253
HSL
201°, 90%, 92%
CMYK
15, 5, 0, 1
Luminance
0.8401

#d8f0fd is a pale electric blue, 201° on the wheel and 96/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (17.80:1). As text it scores 1.18:1 on white — use #097BB8 instead. Nearest name is Alice Blue, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(201 90% 92%)rgb(216 240 253)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d8f0fd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d8f0fd
Hue
201°
blue
Saturation
90%
electric
Lightness
92%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8401
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
96/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
17.80:1
Closest name
Alice Blue
ΔE2000 5.9
Chroma
10.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.942
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 22.7
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue201° of 360°
Saturation90%
Lightness92%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d8f0fd.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool96% 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%
Green74%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#d8f0fd
HEX (8-digit)#d8f0fdff
RGBrgb(216, 240, 253)
RGBArgba(216, 240, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(201, 90%, 92%)
HSV / HSBhsv(201, 15%, 99%)
HWBhwb(201 85% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(15%, 5%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(93.5 -5.3 -8.9)
LCHlch(93.5 10.3 239.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.942 0.031 231.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.20, 84.01, 105.06)
Decimal14217469
Display P3color(display-p3 0.847 0.941 0.992)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d8f0fd;
background-color: #d8f0fd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d8f0fd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d8f0fd] bg-[#d8f0fd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d8f0fd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.847, green: 0.941, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.941, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D8F0FD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD8F0FD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD8F0FD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 240, 216)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(216, 240, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(216, 240, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 216, 240, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8471f, 0.9412f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{216,240,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f0fd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f0fd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#065179, #D3E4EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d8f0fd 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: #F2F9FD;
  --brand-100: #d8f0fd;
  --brand-200: #C3E6F8;
  --brand-300: #94D6FA;
  --brand-400: #5FC1F7;
  --brand-500: #2AADF4;
  --brand-600: #0C9BE9;
  --brand-700: #0A81C2;
  --brand-800: #08679B;
  --brand-900: #0A4C70;
  --brand-950: #073046;
  --brand: #d8f0fd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F8FA;
  --brand-border: #C0DDED;
  --brand-hover: #B6E3FB;
  --brand-pressed: #94D6FA;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141F24;
    --brand-ink: #D3E4EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2F9FD',
        100: '#d8f0fd',
        200: '#C3E6F8',
        300: '#94D6FA',
        400: '#5FC1F7',
        500: '#2AADF4',
        600: '#0C9BE9',
        700: '#0A81C2',
        800: '#08679B',
        900: '#0A4C70',
        950: '#073046',
        DEFAULT: '#d8f0fd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2F9FD,
  '100': #d8f0fd,
  '200': #C3E6F8,
  '300': #94D6FA,
  '400': #5FC1F7,
  '500': #2AADF4,
  '600': #0C9BE9,
  '700': #0A81C2,
  '800': #08679B,
  '900': #0A4C70,
  '950': #073046,
);
$brand-base: #d8f0fd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2F9FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#d8f0fd", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C3E6F8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94D6FA", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5FC1F7", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2AADF4", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0C9BE9", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0A81C2", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#08679B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0A4C70", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#073046", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d8f0fd · 17.80:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.18:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 17.80:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d8f0fd as text scores 1.18:1 on white and 17.80:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #065179 at 7.23:1.

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
#097BB8 · 4.63:1
AA on white−54% L
#097BB8
The quick fox
#075E8D · 7.01:1
AAA on white−63% L
#075E8D
The quick fox
#d8f0fd · 17.80:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d8f0fd
The quick fox
#d8f0fd · 17.80:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d8f0fd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0C9BE9 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
#d8f0fd on white: 1.18:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d8f0fd on black: 17.80:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d8f0fd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d8f0fd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.18:1AaAa
Slate 501.13:1AaAa
Slate 1001.08:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.26:1AaAa
Slate 4002.17:1AaAa
Slate 5004.03:1AaAa
Slate 6006.42:1AaAa
Slate 7008.78:1AaAa
Slate 80012.40:1AaAa
Slate 90015.13:1AaAa
Black17.80:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EAEFFE
deuteranopia · #E4EAFD
tritanopia · #CEF4F4

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. #d8f0fd is pinned to step 100; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2F9FD
#d8f0fd
#C3E6F8
#94D6FA
#5FC1F7
#2AADF4
#0C9BE9
#0A81C2
#08679B
#0A4C70
#073046
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F2F9FDDarkest = 950 · #073046Text 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 0.008 231.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.012 231.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.018 231.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.024 231.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.028 231.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.031 231.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.031 231.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.029 231.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.026 231.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.022 231.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.017 231.3);
}

Colors that work with #d8f0fd

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#F4F8FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0DDED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B7F9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#C71905
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#065179
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7F6FE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141F24
Dark-mode background
Hover#B6E3FB
One step down in lightness
Pressed#94D6FA
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F5F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D6F1FF
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 #d8f0fd

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
  • 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 #065179
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0C9BE9

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

trustedcalmcompetentcorporate

The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The high lightness makes it recede — a surface colour rather than a statement.

Worth knowing

It is also the most crowded hue on the web. Distinctiveness has to come from your other choices.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight8/100
  • 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#FDE5D8
Analogous left#D8FDF8
Analogous right#D8DEFD
Split-complement 1#FDD8DE
Split-complement 2#FDF8D8
Triadic 1#FDD8F0
Triadic 2#F0FDD8
Tetradic#F8D8FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°201°

#d8f0fd sits at 201°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.7%
Green94.1%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
216
0xd8
G · 0–255
240
0xf0
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan14.6%
Magenta5.1%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 21%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d8f0fd text on a black background

contrast 17.80:1

Card sample

#d8f0fd text on a white background

contrast 1.18:1

Card sample

#d8f0fd on grey

1.08:1

#d8f0fd on its own surface

1.10:1

#d8f0fd on its dark surface

14.23:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d8f0fd;
Background color
Panel with #d8f0fd background
background-color: #d8f0fd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d8f0fd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(216, 240, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(216, 240, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d8f0fd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d8f0fd, #D9D8FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f0fd, #E2D8FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d8f0fd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d8f0fd;
caret-color: #d8f0fd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d8f0fd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7F6FE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d8f0fd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d8f0fd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d8f0fd 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(216, 240, 253, 0.5)
rgb(216 240 253 / 50%)
#d8f0fd80
hsl(201 90% 92% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d8f0fd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d8f0fd1a#FBFEFF
20%#d8f0fd33#F7FCFF
40%#d8f0fd66#EFF9FE
60%#d8f0fd99#E8F6FE
80%#d8f0fdcc#E0F3FD

Gradients from #d8f0fd

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, #ECF8FE, #d8f0fd 45%, #065179);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d8f0fd, #C2BBFC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f0fd, #FDE5D8);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F0F9FE 0%, #d8f0fd 45%, #065179 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F8FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #F5F6FF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #065179 0%, transparent 65%), #d8f0fd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d8f0fd

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.

#d8f0fd in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyFinanceHealthcareEnterprise SaaS
Common UI roles
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

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 17.80:1.

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.

#d8f0fd, answered

What color is #d8f0fd?

#d8f0fd is a pale electric blue, closest to Alice Blue (ΔE2000 5.9). It sits at 201° on the hue wheel with 90% saturation and 92% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d8f0fd?

rgb(216, 240, 253) — 216 red, 240 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 84.7% / 94.1% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #d8f0fd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(201, 90%, 92%) and hsv(201, 15%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d8f0fd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8401 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 17.80:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d8f0fd?

Black. It scores 17.80:1 against #d8f0fd, versus 1.18:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d8f0fd accessible on a white background?

#d8f0fd on white scores 1.18:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #097BB8 to reach 4.5:1, or #075E8D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d8f0fd?

#FDE5D8 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDD8DE and #FDF8D8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d8f0fd?

For interface work: #F4F8FA as the surface, #C0DDED for borders, #4B7F9B for secondary text, #C71905 as an accent and #065179 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D8FDF8 and #D8DEFD stays calm, while #FDE5D8 is the loudest partner.

What is #d8f0fd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(15%, 5%, 0%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #d8f0fd warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 96 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #D8FDFC; nudged cooler, #D8EBFD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d8f0fd?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 22.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d8f0fd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d8f0fd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d8f0fd] or text-[#d8f0fd], 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 #d8f0fd with 50% opacity?

rgba(216, 240, 253, 0.5), or #d8f0fd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ECF8FE; over black, #6C787F.

Is #d8f0fd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 10.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d8f0fd mean?

As a blue, it reads trusted, calm, competent. The default of institutions for a reason: blue is read as stable and safe across nearly every culture that has been surveyed. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #d8f0fd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECF8FE, #d8f0fd 45%, #065179). For more colour, a short hue run to #C2BBFC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d8f0fd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d8f0fd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.