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#dadff6

a pale, vivid blue · cool · closest name: Lavender

Token name suggestion: Chalk Sapphire

RGB
218, 223, 246
HSL
229°, 61%, 91%
CMYK
11, 9, 0, 4
Luminance
0.7433

#dadff6 is a pale vivid blue, 229° on the wheel and 89/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.87:1). As text it scores 1.32:1 on white — use #576DD6 instead. Nearest name is Lavender, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(229 61% 91%)rgb(218 223 246)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #dadff6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#dadff6
Hue
229°
blue
Saturation
61%
vivid
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
88%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7433
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
89/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.87:1
Closest name
Lavender
ΔE2000 2.8
Chroma
12.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.907
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 27.9
Web-safe
#CCCCFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue229° of 360°
Saturation61%
Lightness91%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #dadff6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool89% 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%
Green71%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#dadff6
HEX (8-digit)#dadff6ff
RGBrgb(218, 223, 246)
RGBArgba(218, 223, 246, 1)
HSLhsl(229, 61%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(229, 11%, 96%)
HWBhwb(229 85% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 9%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(89.1 2.7 -11.8)
LCHlch(89.1 12.1 283.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.907 0.032 276.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(71.93, 74.33, 97.73)
Decimal14344182
Display P3color(display-p3 0.855 0.875 0.965)
Web-safe#CCCCFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #dadff6;
background-color: #dadff6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #dadff6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#dadff6] bg-[#dadff6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #dadff6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.855, green: 0.875, blue: 0.965)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.875, blue: 0.965, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DADFF6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDADFF6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDADFF6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(246, 223, 218)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(218, 223, 246)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(218, 223, 246)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 218, 223, 246)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8549f, 0.8745f, 0.9647f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{218,223,246}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #dadff6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #dadff6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#192767, #D3D8EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #dadff6 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: #F4F5FB;
  --brand-100: #dadff6;
  --brand-200: #CCD2F0;
  --brand-300: #A5B1E9;
  --brand-400: #788ADE;
  --brand-500: #4A63D3;
  --brand-600: #304AC5;
  --brand-700: #283EA4;
  --brand-800: #203283;
  --brand-900: #1B275F;
  --brand-950: #11183C;
  --brand: #dadff6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F5FA;
  --brand-border: #C0C8ED;
  --brand-hover: #BDC6EF;
  --brand-pressed: #A1ADE8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141724;
    --brand-ink: #D3D8EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4F5FB',
        100: '#dadff6',
        200: '#CCD2F0',
        300: '#A5B1E9',
        400: '#788ADE',
        500: '#4A63D3',
        600: '#304AC5',
        700: '#283EA4',
        800: '#203283',
        900: '#1B275F',
        950: '#11183C',
        DEFAULT: '#dadff6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4F5FB,
  '100': #dadff6,
  '200': #CCD2F0,
  '300': #A5B1E9,
  '400': #788ADE,
  '500': #4A63D3,
  '600': #304AC5,
  '700': #283EA4,
  '800': #203283,
  '900': #1B275F,
  '950': #11183C,
);
$brand-base: #dadff6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4F5FB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#dadff6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCD2F0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5B1E9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#788ADE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4A63D3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#304AC5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#283EA4", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#203283", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B275F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#11183C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #dadff6 · 15.87:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.32:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.87:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #dadff6 as text scores 1.32:1 on white and 15.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #192767 at 10.39:1.

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
#576DD6 · 4.60:1
AA on white−32% L
#576DD6
The quick fox
#304AC5 · 7.21:1
AAA on white−43% L
#304AC5
The quick fox
#dadff6 · 15.87:1
AA on blackalready passes
#dadff6
The quick fox
#dadff6 · 15.87:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#dadff6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #7C8DDF 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
#dadff6 on white: 1.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#dadff6 on black: 15.87:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #dadff6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #dadff6.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.32:1AaAa
Slate 501.26:1AaAa
Slate 1001.21:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.12:1AaAa
Slate 4001.94:1AaAa
Slate 5003.60:1AaAa
Slate 6005.73:1AaAa
Slate 7007.82:1AaAa
Slate 80011.05:1AaAa
Slate 90013.49:1AaAa
Black15.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D9E1F7
deuteranopia · #D7DFF5
tritanopia · #D4E3E6

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. #dadff6 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.

#F4F5FB
#dadff6
#CCD2F0
#A5B1E9
#788ADE
#4A63D3
#304AC5
#283EA4
#203283
#1B275F
#11183C
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F4F5FBDarkest = 950 · #11183CText step on white = 500
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 0.008 276.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.013 276.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.019 276.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.025 276.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.029 276.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.032 276.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.032 276.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.030 276.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.027 276.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.022 276.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.017 276.0);
}

Colors that work with #dadff6

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#F4F5FA
Tinted page background
Border#C0C8ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B599B
Captions on the surface
Accent#A96F23
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#192767
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAEDFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141724
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDC6EF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A1ADE8
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F3F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCE1F9
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 #dadff6

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 #192767
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #7C8DDF

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.

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight9/100
  • 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#F6F1DA
Analogous left#DAEDF6
Analogous right#E3DAF6
Split-complement 1#F6E3DA
Split-complement 2#EDF6DA
Triadic 1#F6DADF
Triadic 2#DFF6DA
Tetradic#F6DAED
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°229°

#dadff6 sits at 229°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.5%
Green87.5%
Blue96.5%
R · 0–255
218
0xda
G · 0–255
223
0xdf
B · 0–255
246
0xf6

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.4%
Magenta9.3%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.5%

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

Color previews

#dadff6 text on a black background

contrast 15.87:1

Card sample

#dadff6 text on a white background

contrast 1.32:1

Card sample

#dadff6 on grey

1.21:1

#dadff6 on its own surface

1.22:1

#dadff6 on its dark surface

13.47:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #dadff6;
Background color
Panel with #dadff6 background
background-color: #dadff6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #dadff6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(218, 223, 246, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(218, 223, 246, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #dadff6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #dadff6, #E8DAF6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dadff6, #EFDAF6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #dadff6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #dadff6;
caret-color: #dadff6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #dadff6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAEDFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #dadff6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#dadff6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #dadff6 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(218, 223, 246, 0.5)
rgb(218 223 246 / 50%)
#dadff680
hsl(229 61% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #dadff6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#dadff61a#FBFCFE
20%#dadff633#F8F9FD
40%#dadff666#F0F2FB
60%#dadff699#E9ECFA
80%#dadff6cc#E1E5F8

Gradients from #dadff6

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, #EFF1FB, #dadff6 45%, #192767);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #dadff6, #DCC1F0);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #dadff6, #F6F1DA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3F4FC 0%, #dadff6 45%, #192767 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4F5FA, #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%, #F6F3FC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #192767 0%, transparent 65%), #dadff6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #dadff6

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.

#dadff6 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

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 15.87:1.

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.

#dadff6, answered

What color is #dadff6?

#dadff6 is a pale vivid blue, closest to Lavender (ΔE2000 2.8). It sits at 229° on the hue wheel with 61% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #dadff6?

rgb(218, 223, 246) — 218 red, 223 green and 246 blue out of 255, or 85.5% / 87.5% / 96.5% by channel.

What is #dadff6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(229, 61%, 91%) and hsv(229, 11%, 96%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #dadff6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7433 and perceived brightness is 88%, so black text on it reaches 15.87:1.

Should I use black or white text on #dadff6?

Black. It scores 15.87:1 against #dadff6, versus 1.32:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #dadff6 accessible on a white background?

#dadff6 on white scores 1.32:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #576DD6 to reach 4.5:1, or #304AC5 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #dadff6?

#F6F1DA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F6E3DA and #EDF6DA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #dadff6?

For interface work: #F4F5FA as the surface, #C0C8ED for borders, #4B599B for secondary text, #A96F23 as an accent and #192767 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DAEDF6 and #E3DAF6 stays calm, while #F6F1DA is the loudest partner.

What is #dadff6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 9%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #dadff6 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 89 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DFDAF6; nudged cooler, #DAE6F6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #dadff6?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 27.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #dadff6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #dadff6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#dadff6] or text-[#dadff6], 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 #dadff6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(218, 223, 246, 0.5), or #dadff680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDEFFB; over black, #6D707B.

Is #dadff6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCCCFF, ΔE2000 8.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #dadff6 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 #dadff6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFF1FB, #dadff6 45%, #192767). For more colour, a short hue run to #DCC1F0 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #dadff6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #dadff6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.