Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4

About this color

#C3FBF4 is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 95%, its chroma 0.057 and its hue 187°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Duck Egg Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 18.42:1.

Colors that go with Duck Egg Blue

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

Color palettes with Duck Egg Blue

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

• Cumulus Flight
• Quiet Sky
• Opal Daydream
• Lullaby Drift
• Verdigris and Basin
• Powder Sky
• Kelp Pier
• Cloud Mobile

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Duck Egg Blue, with their ΔE distance.

• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.010
• Pale Cyan #B7FFFA ΔE 0.015
• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.015
• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.022
• Pale Aqua #B8FFEB ΔE 0.022
• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.023
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.026
• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.027

More about Duck Egg Blue

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

How to make Duck Egg Blue

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 green

Recipe result: #CBEFD1, a difference of ΔE 0.046 from Duck Egg Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Duck Egg Blue 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 Duck Egg Blue

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

   #EFF8F6

   oklch(97.2% 0.01 181.4)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #C3FBF4

   oklch(94.8% 0.057 186.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BCE2DD

   oklch(88.4% 0.04 186.7)

4. Step 300

   300

   #88D0C8

   oklch(80.8% 0.073 187)

5. Step 400

   400

   #21B8AD

   oklch(70.7% 0.118 187)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009F94

   oklch(63.2% 0.111 186.2)

7. Step 600

   600

   #00857D

   oklch(55.5% 0.097 187.4)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007069

   oklch(49.1% 0.086 187.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005C56

   oklch(42.8% 0.075 187.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004D47

    oklch(37.8% 0.066 185.9)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002E2A

    oklch(27.1% 0.048 185.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Duck Egg Blue 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.