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#d8f3f2

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Teal

RGB
216, 243, 242
HSL
178°, 53%, 90%
CMYK
11, 0, 0, 5
Luminance
0.8511

#d8f3f2 is a pale vivid cyan, 178° on the wheel and 87/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.02:1). As text it scores 1.17:1 on white — use #28817D instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(178 53% 90%)rgb(216 243 242)Base step 200AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #d8f3f2 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#d8f3f2
Hue
178°
cyan
Saturation
53%
vivid
Lightness
90%
pale
Brightness
95%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8511
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
87/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.02:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 2.6
Chroma
9.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.944
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 23.5
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue178° of 360°
Saturation53%
Lightness90%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #d8f3f2.

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
Red17%
Green75%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#d8f3f2
HEX (8-digit)#d8f3f2ff
RGBrgb(216, 243, 242)
RGBArgba(216, 243, 242, 1)
HSLhsl(178, 53%, 90%)
HSV / HSBhsv(178, 11%, 95%)
HWBhwb(178 85% 5%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 0%, 0%, 5%)
LABlab(93.9 -9.0 -2.5)
LCHlch(93.9 9.3 195.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.944 0.028 194.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(76.39, 85.11, 96.39)
Decimal14218226
Display P3color(display-p3 0.847 0.953 0.949)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #d8f3f2;
background-color: #d8f3f2;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #d8f3f2;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#d8f3f2] bg-[#d8f3f2]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #d8f3f2;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.847, green: 0.953, blue: 0.949)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.847, green: 0.953, blue: 0.949, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#D8F3F2</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFD8F3F2)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFD8F3F2)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(242, 243, 216)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(216, 243, 242)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(216, 243, 242)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 216, 243, 242)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8471f, 0.9529f, 0.9490f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{216,243,242}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f3f2 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #d8f3f2 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1E615F, #D3EEED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #d8f3f2 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: #F4FBFA;
  --brand-100: #E9F6F6;
  --brand-200: #d8f3f2;
  --brand-300: #A9E5E2;
  --brand-400: #7ED7D4;
  --brand-500: #53CAC6;
  --brand-600: #3ABBB6;
  --brand-700: #309C98;
  --brand-800: #267D7A;
  --brand-900: #1F5B59;
  --brand-950: #143938;
  --brand: #d8f3f2;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C1ECEA;
  --brand-hover: #BDEBE9;
  --brand-pressed: #A1E2E0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FBFA',
        100: '#E9F6F6',
        200: '#d8f3f2',
        300: '#A9E5E2',
        400: '#7ED7D4',
        500: '#53CAC6',
        600: '#3ABBB6',
        700: '#309C98',
        800: '#267D7A',
        900: '#1F5B59',
        950: '#143938',
        DEFAULT: '#d8f3f2',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FBFA,
  '100': #E9F6F6,
  '200': #d8f3f2,
  '300': #A9E5E2,
  '400': #7ED7D4,
  '500': #53CAC6,
  '600': #3ABBB6,
  '700': #309C98,
  '800': #267D7A,
  '900': #1F5B59,
  '950': #143938,
);
$brand-base: #d8f3f2;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FBFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F6F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#d8f3f2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A9E5E2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7ED7D4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#53CAC6", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3ABBB6", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#309C98", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#267D7A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1F5B59", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#143938", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #d8f3f2 · 18.02:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.17:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 18.02:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #d8f3f2 as text scores 1.17:1 on white and 18.02:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1E615F at 6.15:1.

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
#28817D · 4.64:1
AA on white−57% L
#28817D
The quick fox
#1E615F · 7.17:1
AAA on white−65% L
#1E615F
The quick fox
#d8f3f2 · 18.02:1
AA on blackalready passes
#d8f3f2
The quick fox
#d8f3f2 · 18.02:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#d8f3f2

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #32A4A0 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
#d8f3f2 on white: 1.17:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#d8f3f2 on black: 18.02:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #d8f3f2 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #d8f3f2.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.17:1AaAa
Slate 501.11:1AaAa
Slate 1001.06:1AaAa
Slate 2001.06:1AaAa
Slate 3001.27:1AaAa
Slate 4002.20:1AaAa
Slate 5004.08:1AaAa
Slate 6006.50:1AaAa
Slate 7008.89:1AaAa
Slate 80012.55:1AaAa
Slate 90015.32:1AaAa
Black18.02:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EFF0F2
deuteranopia · #EAECF2
tritanopia · #D1F5F3

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. #d8f3f2 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.

#F4FBFA
#E9F6F6
#d8f3f2
#A9E5E2
#7ED7D4
#53CAC6
#3ABBB6
#309C98
#267D7A
#1F5B59
#143938
Base = 200Lightest = 50 · #F4FBFADarkest = 950 · #143938Text 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 0.007 194.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.011 194.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.017 194.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.022 194.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.026 194.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.028 194.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.028 194.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.027 194.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.024 194.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.020 194.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.016 194.0);
}

Colors that work with #d8f3f2

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#C1ECEA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B98
Captions on the surface
Accent#A02C4C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1E615F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF9F9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDEBE9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A1E2E0
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DEF7F6
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 #d8f3f2

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 #1E615F
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #32A4A0

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
  • Weight10/100
  • 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#F3D8D9
Analogous left#D8F3E5
Analogous right#D8E6F3
Split-complement 1#F3D8E6
Split-complement 2#F3E5D8
Triadic 1#F2D8F3
Triadic 2#F3F2D8
Tetradic#E5D8F3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°178°

#d8f3f2 sits at 178°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red84.7%
Green95.3%
Blue94.9%
R · 0–255
216
0xd8
G · 0–255
243
0xf3
B · 0–255
242
0xf2

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow0.4%
Key (black)4.7%

Total ink coverage is 16%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#d8f3f2 text on a black background

contrast 18.02:1

Card sample

#d8f3f2 text on a white background

contrast 1.17:1

Card sample

#d8f3f2 on grey

1.06:1

#d8f3f2 on its own surface

1.10:1

#d8f3f2 on its dark surface

13.78:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #d8f3f2;
Background color
Panel with #d8f3f2 background
background-color: #d8f3f2;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #d8f3f2;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(216, 243, 242, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(216, 243, 242, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #d8f3f2;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #d8f3f2, #D8E2F3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f3f2, #D8DBF3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #d8f3f2;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #d8f3f2;
caret-color: #d8f3f2;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #d8f3f2;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF9F9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #d8f3f2;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#d8f3f2 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #d8f3f2 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, 243, 242, 0.5)
rgb(216 243 242 / 50%)
#d8f3f280
hsl(178 53% 90% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #d8f3f2 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#d8f3f21a#FBFEFE
20%#d8f3f233#F7FDFC
40%#d8f3f266#EFFAFA
60%#d8f3f299#E8F8F7
80%#d8f3f2cc#E0F5F5

Gradients from #d8f3f2

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, #EFFAFA, #d8f3f2 45%, #1E615F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #d8f3f2, #C1CDEC);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #d8f3f2, #F3D8D9);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FBFB 0%, #d8f3f2 45%, #1E615F 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #EFF4FA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1E615F 0%, transparent 65%), #d8f3f2;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #d8f3f2

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.

#d8f3f2 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

Very light values are indistinguishable from white on a dim phone screen outdoors. Give it a border if the boundary matters.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 18.02:1.

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.

#d8f3f2, answered

What color is #d8f3f2?

#d8f3f2 is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 2.6). It sits at 178° on the hue wheel with 53% saturation and 90% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #d8f3f2?

rgb(216, 243, 242) — 216 red, 243 green and 242 blue out of 255, or 84.7% / 95.3% / 94.9% by channel.

What is #d8f3f2 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(178, 53%, 90%) and hsv(178, 11%, 95%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #d8f3f2 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8511 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.02:1.

Should I use black or white text on #d8f3f2?

Black. It scores 18.02:1 against #d8f3f2, versus 1.17:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #d8f3f2 accessible on a white background?

#d8f3f2 on white scores 1.17:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #28817D to reach 4.5:1, or #1E615F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #d8f3f2?

#F3D8D9 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F3D8E6 and #F3E5D8, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #d8f3f2?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C1ECEA for borders, #4B9B98 for secondary text, #A02C4C as an accent and #1E615F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #D8F3E5 and #D8E6F3 stays calm, while #F3D8D9 is the loudest partner.

What is #d8f3f2 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 0%, 0%, 5%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #d8f3f2 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 #D8F3E8; nudged cooler, #D8EAF3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #d8f3f2?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 23.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #d8f3f2 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #d8f3f2 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#d8f3f2] or text-[#d8f3f2], 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 #d8f3f2 with 50% opacity?

rgba(216, 243, 242, 0.5), or #d8f3f280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #ECF9F9; over black, #6C7A79.

Is #d8f3f2 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #d8f3f2 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 #d8f3f2?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFFAFA, #d8f3f2 45%, #1E615F). For more colour, a short hue run to #C1CDEC keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #d8f3f2 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #d8f3f2 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.