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#e1fcf3

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

Token name suggestion: Mist Lagoon

RGB
225, 252, 243
HSL
160°, 82%, 94%
CMYK
11, 0, 4, 1
Luminance
0.9210

#e1fcf3 is a pale electric cyan, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (19.42:1). As text it scores 1.08:1 on white — use #0D845C instead. Nearest name is Light Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(160 82% 94%)rgb(225 252 243)Base step 100AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #e1fcf3 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#e1fcf3
Hue
160°
cyan
Saturation
82%
electric
Lightness
94%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
95%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9210
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
19.42:1
Closest name
Light Cyan
ΔE2000 4
Chroma
10.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.969
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 25.2
Web-safe
#CCFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° of 360°
Saturation82%
Lightness94%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #e1fcf3.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% 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%
Green76%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#e1fcf3
HEX (8-digit)#e1fcf3ff
RGBrgb(225, 252, 243)
RGBArgba(225, 252, 243, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 82%, 94%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 11%, 99%)
HWBhwb(160 88% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(11%, 0%, 4%, 1%)
LABlab(96.9 -10.4 1.3)
LCHlch(96.9 10.5 172.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.969 0.030 173.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(82.04, 92.10, 98.23)
Decimal14810355
Display P3color(display-p3 0.882 0.988 0.953)
Web-safe#CCFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #e1fcf3;
background-color: #e1fcf3;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #e1fcf3;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#e1fcf3] bg-[#e1fcf3]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #e1fcf3;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.882, green: 0.988, blue: 0.953)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.882, green: 0.988, blue: 0.953, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#E1FCF3</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFE1FCF3)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFE1FCF3)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(243, 252, 225)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(225, 252, 243)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(225, 252, 243)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 225, 252, 243)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.8824f, 0.9882f, 0.9529f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{225,252,243}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #e1fcf3 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #e1fcf3 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0C7451, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #e1fcf3 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: #F2FCF9;
  --brand-100: #e1fcf3;
  --brand-200: #C6F6E6;
  --brand-300: #99F5D6;
  --brand-400: #66F0C2;
  --brand-500: #33EBAD;
  --brand-600: #16DF9C;
  --brand-700: #13B982;
  --brand-800: #0F9468;
  --brand-900: #0F6B4D;
  --brand-950: #094330;
  --brand: #e1fcf3;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDE;
  --brand-hover: #C0F9E6;
  --brand-pressed: #A0F5D9;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCF9',
        100: '#e1fcf3',
        200: '#C6F6E6',
        300: '#99F5D6',
        400: '#66F0C2',
        500: '#33EBAD',
        600: '#16DF9C',
        700: '#13B982',
        800: '#0F9468',
        900: '#0F6B4D',
        950: '#094330',
        DEFAULT: '#e1fcf3',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCF9,
  '100': #e1fcf3,
  '200': #C6F6E6,
  '300': #99F5D6,
  '400': #66F0C2,
  '500': #33EBAD,
  '600': #16DF9C,
  '700': #13B982,
  '800': #0F9468,
  '900': #0F6B4D,
  '950': #094330,
);
$brand-base: #e1fcf3;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#e1fcf3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C6F6E6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#99F5D6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#66F0C2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#33EBAD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#16DF9C", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#13B982", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0F9468", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0F6B4D", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#094330", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #e1fcf3 · 19.42:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.08:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 19.42:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #e1fcf3 as text scores 1.08:1 on white and 19.42:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0C7451 at 5.35:1.

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
#0D845C · 4.70:1
AA on white−65% L
#0D845C
The quick fox
#0A6446 · 7.18:1
AAA on white−72% L
#0A6446
The quick fox
#e1fcf3 · 19.42:1
AA on blackalready passes
#e1fcf3
The quick fox
#e1fcf3 · 19.42:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#e1fcf3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #11A976 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
#e1fcf3 on white: 1.08:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#e1fcf3 on black: 19.42:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #e1fcf3 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #e1fcf3.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.08:1AaAa
Slate 501.03:1AaAa
Slate 1001.01:1AaAa
Slate 2001.14:1AaAa
Slate 3001.37:1AaAa
Slate 4002.37:1AaAa
Slate 5004.40:1AaAa
Slate 6007.01:1AaAa
Slate 7009.58:1AaAa
Slate 80013.53:1AaAa
Slate 90016.51:1AaAa
Black19.42:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FAF8F3
deuteranopia · #F5F4F4
tritanopia · #DBFDF9

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. #e1fcf3 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.

#F2FCF9
#e1fcf3
#C6F6E6
#99F5D6
#66F0C2
#33EBAD
#16DF9C
#13B982
#0F9468
#0F6B4D
#094330
Base = 100Lightest = 50 · #F2FCF9Darkest = 950 · #094330Text step on white = 900
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 0.008 173.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.012 173.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.018 173.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.024 173.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.028 173.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.030 173.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.030 173.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.029 173.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.026 173.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.021 173.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.017 173.6);
}

Colors that work with #e1fcf3

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B80
Captions on the surface
Accent#C00C76
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0C7451
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FDF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#C0F9E6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#A0F5D9
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#D8FDF1
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 #e1fcf3

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 #0C7451
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #11A976

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.

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

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

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight7/100
  • 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#FCE1EA
Analogous left#E1FCE5
Analogous right#E1F7FC
Split-complement 1#FCE1F7
Split-complement 2#FCE5E1
Triadic 1#F3E1FC
Triadic 2#FCF3E1
Tetradic#E5E1FC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#e1fcf3 sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red88.2%
Green98.8%
Blue95.3%
R · 0–255
225
0xe1
G · 0–255
252
0xfc
B · 0–255
243
0xf3

CMYK percentages

Cyan10.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow3.6%
Key (black)1.2%

Total ink coverage is 15%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#e1fcf3 text on a black background

contrast 19.42:1

Card sample

#e1fcf3 text on a white background

contrast 1.08:1

Card sample

#e1fcf3 on grey

1.01:1

#e1fcf3 on its own surface

1.02:1

#e1fcf3 on its dark surface

14.92:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #e1fcf3;
Background color
Panel with #e1fcf3 background
background-color: #e1fcf3;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #e1fcf3;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(225, 252, 243, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(225, 252, 243, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #e1fcf3;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #e1fcf3, #E1F3FC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e1fcf3, #E1ECFC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #e1fcf3;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #e1fcf3;
caret-color: #e1fcf3;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #e1fcf3;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FDF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #e1fcf3;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#e1fcf3 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #e1fcf3 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(225, 252, 243, 0.5)
rgb(225 252 243 / 50%)
#e1fcf380
hsl(160 82% 94% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #e1fcf3 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#e1fcf31a#FCFFFE
20%#e1fcf333#F9FEFD
40%#e1fcf366#F3FEFA
60%#e1fcf399#EDFDF8
80%#e1fcf3cc#E7FDF5

Gradients from #e1fcf3

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, #ECFDF8, #e1fcf3 45%, #0C7451);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #e1fcf3, #C5E3F9);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #e1fcf3, #FCE1EA);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F1FEF9 0%, #e1fcf3 45%, #0C7451 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #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%, #FDFEFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0C7451 0%, transparent 65%), #e1fcf3;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #e1fcf3

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.

#e1fcf3 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

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

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 19.42:1.

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.

#e1fcf3, answered

What color is #e1fcf3?

#e1fcf3 is a pale electric cyan, closest to Light Cyan (ΔE2000 4). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 82% saturation and 94% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #e1fcf3?

rgb(225, 252, 243) — 225 red, 252 green and 243 blue out of 255, or 88.2% / 98.8% / 95.3% by channel.

What is #e1fcf3 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 82%, 94%) and hsv(160, 11%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #e1fcf3 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9210 and perceived brightness is 95%, so black text on it reaches 19.42:1.

Should I use black or white text on #e1fcf3?

Black. It scores 19.42:1 against #e1fcf3, versus 1.08:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #e1fcf3 accessible on a white background?

#e1fcf3 on white scores 1.08:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0D845C to reach 4.5:1, or #0A6446 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #e1fcf3?

#FCE1EA sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FCE1F7 and #FCE5E1, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #e1fcf3?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDE for borders, #4B9B80 for secondary text, #C00C76 as an accent and #0C7451 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #E1FCE5 and #E1F7FC stays calm, while #FCE1EA is the loudest partner.

What is #e1fcf3 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(11%, 0%, 4%, 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 #e1fcf3 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #E1FCE9; nudged cooler, #E1FBFC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #e1fcf3?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 25.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #e1fcf3 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #e1fcf3 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#e1fcf3] or text-[#e1fcf3], 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 #e1fcf3 with 50% opacity?

rgba(225, 252, 243, 0.5), or #e1fcf380 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #F0FEF9; over black, #717E7A.

Is #e1fcf3 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #CCFFFF, ΔE2000 6.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #e1fcf3 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 #e1fcf3?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ECFDF8, #e1fcf3 45%, #0C7451). For more colour, a short hue run to #C5E3F9 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #e1fcf3 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #e1fcf3 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.