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#f7fbfd

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

Token name suggestion: Frost Sapphire

RGB
247, 251, 253
HSL
200°, 60%, 98%
CMYK
2, 1, 0, 1
Luminance
0.9586

#f7fbfd is a pale vivid blue, 200° on the wheel and 96/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (20.17:1). As text it scores 1.04:1 on white — use #2A7DA7 instead. Nearest name is White, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(200 60% 98%)rgb(247 251 253)Base step 50AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #f7fbfd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#f7fbfd
Hue
200°
blue
Saturation
60%
vivid
Lightness
98%
pale
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
98%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.9586
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
96/100 cool
Color family
Blue
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
20.17:1
Closest name
White
ΔE2000 2.1
Chroma
1.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.986
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 29
Web-safe
#FFFFFF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue200° of 360°
Saturation60%
Lightness98%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #f7fbfd.

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
Red21%
Green72%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#f7fbfd
HEX (8-digit)#f7fbfdff
RGBrgb(247, 251, 253)
RGBArgba(247, 251, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(200, 60%, 98%)
HSV / HSBhsv(200, 2%, 99%)
HWBhwb(200 97% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(2%, 1%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(98.4 -1.0 -1.4)
LCHlch(98.4 1.7 235.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.986 0.005 228.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(90.58, 95.86, 106.64)
Decimal16251901
Display P3color(display-p3 0.969 0.984 0.992)
Web-safe#FFFFFF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #f7fbfd;
background-color: #f7fbfd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #f7fbfd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#f7fbfd] bg-[#f7fbfd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #f7fbfd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.969, green: 0.984, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.969, green: 0.984, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#F7FBFD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFFF7FBFD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFFF7FBFD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 251, 247)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(247, 251, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(247, 251, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 247, 251, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.9686f, 0.9843f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{247,251,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #f7fbfd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #f7fbfd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#1A4C66, #D3E5EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #f7fbfd 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: #f7fbfd;
  --brand-100: #E9F2F7;
  --brand-200: #CCE4EF;
  --brand-300: #A5D2E9;
  --brand-400: #78BCDD;
  --brand-500: #4BA5D2;
  --brand-600: #3193C4;
  --brand-700: #297AA3;
  --brand-800: #216283;
  --brand-900: #1B485F;
  --brand-950: #112D3B;
  --brand: #f7fbfd;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4F8FA;
  --brand-border: #C0DEED;
  --brand-hover: #DAEDF6;
  --brand-pressed: #BEDEEF;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #141F24;
    --brand-ink: #D3E5EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#f7fbfd',
        100: '#E9F2F7',
        200: '#CCE4EF',
        300: '#A5D2E9',
        400: '#78BCDD',
        500: '#4BA5D2',
        600: '#3193C4',
        700: '#297AA3',
        800: '#216283',
        900: '#1B485F',
        950: '#112D3B',
        DEFAULT: '#f7fbfd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #f7fbfd,
  '100': #E9F2F7,
  '200': #CCE4EF,
  '300': #A5D2E9,
  '400': #78BCDD,
  '500': #4BA5D2,
  '600': #3193C4,
  '700': #297AA3,
  '800': #216283,
  '900': #1B485F,
  '950': #112D3B,
);
$brand-base: #f7fbfd;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#f7fbfd", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E9F2F7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CCE4EF", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A5D2E9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#78BCDD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#4BA5D2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#3193C4", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#297AA3", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#216283", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#1B485F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#112D3B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #f7fbfd · 20.17:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.04:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 20.17:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #f7fbfd as text scores 1.04:1 on white and 20.17:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #1A4C66 at 8.89:1.

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
#2A7DA7 · 4.58:1
AA on white−57% L
#2A7DA7
The quick fox
#205F7E · 7.00:1
AAA on white−67% L
#205F7E
The quick fox
#f7fbfd · 20.17:1
AA on blackalready passes
#f7fbfd
The quick fox
#f7fbfd · 20.17:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#f7fbfd

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #3B9DCE 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
#f7fbfd on white: 1.04:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#f7fbfd on black: 20.17:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #f7fbfd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #f7fbfd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.04:1AaAa
Slate 501.01:1AaAa
Slate 1001.05:1AaAa
Slate 2001.18:1AaAa
Slate 3001.43:1AaAa
Slate 4002.46:1AaAa
Slate 5004.57:1AaAa
Slate 6007.28:1AaAa
Slate 7009.95:1AaAa
Slate 80014.05:1AaAa
Slate 90017.15:1AaAa
Black20.17:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #FAFBFD
deuteranopia · #F9FAFD
tritanopia · #F6FCFC

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. #f7fbfd is pinned to step 50; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#f7fbfd
#E9F2F7
#CCE4EF
#A5D2E9
#78BCDD
#4BA5D2
#3193C4
#297AA3
#216283
#1B485F
#112D3B
Base = 50Lightest = 50 · #f7fbfdDarkest = 950 · #112D3BText step on white = 700
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 0.001 228.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.002 228.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.003 228.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.004 228.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.005 228.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.005 228.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.005 228.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.005 228.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.004 228.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.003 228.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.003 228.8);
}

Colors that work with #f7fbfd

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#C0DEED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B809B
Captions on the surface
Accent#A32929
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#1A4C66
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EBF5FA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#141F24
Dark-mode background
Hover#DAEDF6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#BEDEEF
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F6F7
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#DCEFF9
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 #f7fbfd

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 #1A4C66
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #3B9DCE

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
  • Weight2/100
  • 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#FDF9F7
Analogous left#F7FDFC
Analogous right#F7F8FD
Split-complement 1#FDF7F8
Split-complement 2#FDFCF7
Triadic 1#FDF7FB
Triadic 2#FBFDF7
Tetradic#FCF7FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°200°

#f7fbfd sits at 200°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red96.9%
Green98.4%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
247
0xf7
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan2.4%
Magenta0.8%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 4%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#f7fbfd text on a black background

contrast 20.17:1

Card sample

#f7fbfd text on a white background

contrast 1.04:1

Card sample

#f7fbfd on grey

1.05:1

#f7fbfd on its own surface

1.03:1

#f7fbfd on its dark surface

16.12:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #f7fbfd;
Background color
Panel with #f7fbfd background
background-color: #f7fbfd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #f7fbfd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(247, 251, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(247, 251, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #f7fbfd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #f7fbfd, #F7F7FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7fbfd, #F8F7FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #f7fbfd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #f7fbfd;
caret-color: #f7fbfd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #f7fbfd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EBF5FA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #f7fbfd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#f7fbfd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #f7fbfd 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(247, 251, 253, 0.5)
rgb(247 251 253 / 50%)
#f7fbfd80
hsl(200 60% 98% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #f7fbfd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#f7fbfd1a#FEFFFF
20%#f7fbfd33#FDFEFF
40%#f7fbfd66#FCFDFE
60%#f7fbfd99#FAFDFE
80%#f7fbfdcc#F9FCFD

Gradients from #f7fbfd

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, #EFF7FB, #f7fbfd 45%, #1A4C66);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #f7fbfd, #E0DEF7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #f7fbfd, #FDF9F7);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #F3F9FC 0%, #f7fbfd 45%, #1A4C66 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%, #FFFFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #1A4C66 0%, transparent 65%), #f7fbfd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #f7fbfd

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.

#f7fbfd 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

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 20.17:1.

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.

#f7fbfd, answered

What color is #f7fbfd?

#f7fbfd is a pale vivid blue, closest to White (ΔE2000 2.1). It sits at 200° on the hue wheel with 60% saturation and 98% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #f7fbfd?

rgb(247, 251, 253) — 247 red, 251 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 96.9% / 98.4% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #f7fbfd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(200, 60%, 98%) and hsv(200, 2%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #f7fbfd a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.9586 and perceived brightness is 98%, so black text on it reaches 20.17:1.

Should I use black or white text on #f7fbfd?

Black. It scores 20.17:1 against #f7fbfd, versus 1.04:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #f7fbfd accessible on a white background?

#f7fbfd on white scores 1.04:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #2A7DA7 to reach 4.5:1, or #205F7E for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #f7fbfd?

#FDF9F7 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDF7F8 and #FDFCF7, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #f7fbfd?

For interface work: #F4F8FA as the surface, #C0DEED for borders, #4B809B for secondary text, #A32929 as an accent and #1A4C66 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #F7FDFC and #F7F8FD stays calm, while #FDF9F7 is the loudest partner.

What is #f7fbfd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(2%, 1%, 0%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #f7fbfd 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 #F3FCFC; nudged cooler, #F3F7FC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #f7fbfd?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 29 away. That is a visible difference, so define #f7fbfd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #f7fbfd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#f7fbfd] or text-[#f7fbfd], 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 #f7fbfd with 50% opacity?

rgba(247, 251, 253, 0.5), or #f7fbfd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #FBFDFE; over black, #7C7E7F.

Is #f7fbfd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #FFFFFF, ΔE2000 2.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #f7fbfd 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 #f7fbfd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #EFF7FB, #f7fbfd 45%, #1A4C66). For more colour, a short hue run to #E0DEF7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #f7fbfd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #f7fbfd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.