Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7

About this color

#C4FFF7 is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 96%, its chroma 0.060 and its hue 186°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Eggshell Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 18.99:1.

Colors that go with Eggshell Blue

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

Color palettes with Eggshell Blue

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

• Opal Daydream
• Lullaby Drift
• Quiet Sky
• Cumulus Flight
• Kelp Pier
• Static City
• Synth Boot
• Chrome Pulse

Similar named colors

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

• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.009
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.010
• Pale Cyan #B7FFFA ΔE 0.014
• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.018
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.021
• Pale Aqua #B8FFEB ΔE 0.022
• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.022
• Very Light Blue #D5FFFF ΔE 0.023

More about Eggshell Blue

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

How to make Eggshell 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 0.053 from Eggshell Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Eggshell 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 Eggshell 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 50.

1. Step 50

   50 (this color)

   #C4FFF7

   oklch(95.8% 0.06 186)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DAEFEC

   oklch(93.6% 0.022 186.5)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BAE3DD

   oklch(88.5% 0.043 185.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #85D1C8

   oklch(80.9% 0.077 186.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #02B9AC

   oklch(70.7% 0.124 186)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009F93

   oklch(63.2% 0.111 185.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #00857C

   oklch(55.5% 0.097 186.5)

8. Step 700

   700

   #007068

   oklch(49.1% 0.086 186.2)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005C55

   oklch(42.7% 0.075 185.9)

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

Eggshell 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.