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#daf2f6

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

Token name suggestion: Chalk Reef

RGB
218, 242, 246
HSL
189°, 61%, 91%
CMYK
11, 2, 0, 4
Luminance
0.8506

#daf2f6 is a pale vivid cyan, 189° on the wheel and 91/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (18.01:1). As text it scores 1.17:1 on white — use #238090 instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(189 61% 91%)rgb(218 242 246)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #daf2f6 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#daf2f6
Hue
189°
cyan
Saturation
61%
vivid
Lightness
91%
pale
Brightness
96%
HSV value
Perceived
92%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.8506
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
91/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
18.01:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
8.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.945
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 23.2
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue189° 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 #daf2f6.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool91% 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
Red18%
Green75%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#daf2f6
HEX (8-digit)#daf2f6ff
RGBrgb(218, 242, 246)
RGBArgba(218, 242, 246, 1)
HSLhsl(189, 61%, 91%)
HSV / HSBhsv(189, 11%, 96%)
HWBhwb(189 85% 4%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 2%, 0%, 4%)
LABlab(93.9 -7.0 -4.6)
LCHlch(93.9 8.4 213.1)
OKLCHoklch(0.945 0.026 208.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(77.30, 85.06, 99.52)
Decimal14349046
Display P3color(display-p3 0.855 0.949 0.965)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #daf2f6;
background-color: #daf2f6;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #daf2f6;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#daf2f6] bg-[#daf2f6]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #daf2f6;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.855, green: 0.949, blue: 0.965)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.855, green: 0.949, blue: 0.965, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#DAF2F6</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFDAF2F6)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFDAF2F6)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(246, 242, 218)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(218, 242, 246)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(218, 242, 246)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 218, 242, 246)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8549f, 0.9490f, 0.9647f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{218,242,246}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #daf2f6 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #daf2f6 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#195B67, #D3EAEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #daf2f6 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: #F4FAFB;
  --brand-100: #daf2f6;
  --brand-200: #CCEBF0;
  --brand-300: #A5DFE9;
  --brand-400: #78CFDE;
  --brand-500: #4AC0D3;
  --brand-600: #30B0C5;
  --brand-700: #2892A4;
  --brand-800: #207583;
  --brand-900: #1B565F;
  --brand-950: #11363C;
  --brand: #daf2f6;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0E6ED;
  --brand-hover: #BDE8EF;
  --brand-pressed: #A1DEE8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142224;
    --brand-ink: #D3EAEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F4FAFB',
        100: '#daf2f6',
        200: '#CCEBF0',
        300: '#A5DFE9',
        400: '#78CFDE',
        500: '#4AC0D3',
        600: '#30B0C5',
        700: '#2892A4',
        800: '#207583',
        900: '#1B565F',
        950: '#11363C',
        DEFAULT: '#daf2f6',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F4FAFB,
  '100': #daf2f6,
  '200': #CCEBF0,
  '300': #A5DFE9,
  '400': #78CFDE,
  '500': #4AC0D3,
  '600': #30B0C5,
  '700': #2892A4,
  '800': #207583,
  '900': #1B565F,
  '950': #11363C,
);
$brand-base: #daf2f6;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F4FAFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#daf2f6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCEBF0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5DFE9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#78CFDE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4AC0D3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#30B0C5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#2892A4", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#207583", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B565F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#11363C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #daf2f6 · 18.01:1
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 · 18.01:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #daf2f6 as text scores 1.17:1 on white and 18.01:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #195B67 at 6.59:1.

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
#238090 · 4.60:1
AA on white−56% L
#238090
The quick fox
#1A5F6B · 7.26:1
AAA on white−65% L
#1A5F6B
The quick fox
#daf2f6 · 18.01:1
AA on blackalready passes
#daf2f6
The quick fox
#daf2f6 · 18.01:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#daf2f6

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #2CA1B5 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
#daf2f6 on white: 1.17:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#daf2f6 on black: 18.01:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #daf2f6 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #daf2f6.

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 7008.88:1AaAa
Slate 80012.55:1AaAa
Slate 90015.31:1AaAa
Black18.01:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #EEF0F6
deuteranopia · #E9ECF6
tritanopia · #D2F4F3

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. #daf2f6 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.

#F4FAFB
#daf2f6
#CCEBF0
#A5DFE9
#78CFDE
#4AC0D3
#30B0C5
#2892A4
#207583
#1B565F
#11363C
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F4FAFBDarkest = 950 · #11363CText 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 0.006 208.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.010 208.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.015 208.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.020 208.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.024 208.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.026 208.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.026 208.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.024 208.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.022 208.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.018 208.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.014 208.7);
}

Colors that work with #daf2f6

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#C0E6ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B8F9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#A92331
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#195B67
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAF8FA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142224
Dark-mode background
Hover#BDE8EF
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A1DEE8
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F6F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCF5F9
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 #daf2f6

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 #195B67
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #2CA1B5

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
  • 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#F6DEDA
Analogous left#DAF6EC
Analogous right#DAE4F6
Split-complement 1#F6DAE4
Split-complement 2#F6ECDA
Triadic 1#F6DAF2
Triadic 2#F2F6DA
Tetradic#ECDAF6
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°189°

#daf2f6 sits at 189°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red85.5%
Green94.9%
Blue96.5%
R · 0–255
218
0xda
G · 0–255
242
0xf2
B · 0–255
246
0xf6

CMYK percentages

Cyan11.4%
Magenta1.6%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)3.5%

Total ink coverage is 17%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#daf2f6 text on a black background

contrast 18.01:1

Card sample

#daf2f6 text on a white background

contrast 1.17:1

Card sample

#daf2f6 on grey

1.06:1

#daf2f6 on its own surface

1.10:1

#daf2f6 on its dark surface

14.03:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #daf2f6;
Background color
Panel with #daf2f6 background
background-color: #daf2f6;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #daf2f6;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(218, 242, 246, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(218, 242, 246, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #daf2f6;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #daf2f6, #DADFF6);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daf2f6, #DCDAF6);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #daf2f6;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #daf2f6;
caret-color: #daf2f6;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #daf2f6;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAF8FA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #daf2f6;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#daf2f6 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #daf2f6 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, 242, 246, 0.5)
rgb(218 242 246 / 50%)
#daf2f680
hsl(189 61% 91% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #daf2f6 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#daf2f61a#FBFEFE
20%#daf2f633#F8FCFD
40%#daf2f666#F0FAFB
60%#daf2f699#E9F7FA
80%#daf2f6cc#E1F5F8

Gradients from #daf2f6

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, #EFF9FB, #daf2f6 45%, #195B67);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #daf2f6, #C1C6F0);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #daf2f6, #F6DEDA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3FBFC 0%, #daf2f6 45%, #195B67 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%, #F3F5FC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #195B67 0%, transparent 65%), #daf2f6;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #daf2f6

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.

#daf2f6 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 18.01:1.

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.

#daf2f6, answered

What color is #daf2f6?

#daf2f6 is a pale vivid cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 189° on the hue wheel with 61% saturation and 91% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #daf2f6?

rgb(218, 242, 246) — 218 red, 242 green and 246 blue out of 255, or 85.5% / 94.9% / 96.5% by channel.

What is #daf2f6 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(189, 61%, 91%) and hsv(189, 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 #daf2f6 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.8506 and perceived brightness is 92%, so black text on it reaches 18.01:1.

Should I use black or white text on #daf2f6?

Black. It scores 18.01:1 against #daf2f6, versus 1.17:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #daf2f6 accessible on a white background?

#daf2f6 on white scores 1.17:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #238090 to reach 4.5:1, or #1A5F6B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #daf2f6?

#F6DEDA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #F6DAE4 and #F6ECDA, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #daf2f6?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0E6ED for borders, #4B8F9B for secondary text, #A92331 as an accent and #195B67 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #DAF6EC and #DAE4F6 stays calm, while #F6DEDA is the loudest partner.

What is #daf2f6 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 2%, 0%, 4%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #daf2f6 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 91 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DAF6F0; nudged cooler, #DAE9F6.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #daf2f6?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 23.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #daf2f6 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #daf2f6 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#daf2f6] or text-[#daf2f6], 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 #daf2f6 with 50% opacity?

rgba(218, 242, 246, 0.5), or #daf2f680 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #EDF9FB; over black, #6D797B.

Is #daf2f6 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #daf2f6 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 #daf2f6?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFF9FB, #daf2f6 45%, #195B67). For more colour, a short hue run to #C1C6F0 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #daf2f6 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #daf2f6 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.