Diamond #B9F2FF

About this color

#B9F2FF is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 93%, its chroma 0.060 and its hue 213°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Diamond. Black text reads best on it, at 17.20:1.

Colors that go with Diamond

Matches found by rotating Diamond around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Diamond

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Diamond, closest first.

• Midnight Study
• Pixel Dashboard
• Slate Window
• Fjord Light
• Cumulus Flight
• Powder Sky
• Coral and Kelp
• Dune Afternoon

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Diamond, with their ΔE distance.

• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.012
• Pale Turquoise #AFEEEE ΔE 0.027
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.035
• Robin's Egg Blue #98EFF9 ΔE 0.037
• Pale Cyan #B7FFFA ΔE 0.037
• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.042
• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.043
• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.044

More about Diamond

• Shades of teal or cyan
• What teal or cyan means

How to make Diamond

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 1 part blue

Recipe result: #C0E0F8, a difference of ΔE 0.045 from Diamond. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Diamond in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Diamond

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EEF7FA

   oklch(97% 0.01 219.6)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #B9F2FF

   oklch(92.7% 0.06 213.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BAE1EA

   oklch(88.5% 0.043 213.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #84CEDF

   oklch(80.9% 0.077 213.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00B4CF

   oklch(70.8% 0.124 213.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009AB1

   oklch(63% 0.11 213.1)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008295

   oklch(55.7% 0.097 212.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #006D7E

   oklch(49.1% 0.086 213.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005967

   oklch(42.6% 0.075 213)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004A57

    oklch(37.6% 0.066 214.5)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002C34

    oklch(26.9% 0.047 213.2)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Diamond with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.