Light Light Blue #CAFFFB

About this color

#CAFFFB is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 96%, its chroma 0.054 and its hue 191°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Light Light Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 19.20:1.

Colors that go with Light Light Blue

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

Color palettes with Light Light Blue

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

• Lullaby Drift
• Kelp Pier
• Opal Daydream
• Cumulus Flight
• Moonpool Spring
• Cloud Mobile
• Static City
• Synth Boot

Similar named colors

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

• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.009
• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.009
• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.013
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.014
• Very Light Blue #D5FFFF ΔE 0.014
• Very Pale Blue #D6FFFE ΔE 0.015
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.015
• Ice Blue #D7FFFE ΔE 0.016

More about Light Light Blue

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

How to make Light Light 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 0.058 from Light Light Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Light Light 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 Light Light 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)

   #CAFFFB

   oklch(96.3% 0.054 190.6)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DCEEED

   oklch(93.6% 0.019 192.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #BDE2DF

   oklch(88.5% 0.039 190.4)

4. Step 300

   300

   #8BCFCB

   oklch(80.8% 0.069 191.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #31B6B0

   oklch(70.6% 0.111 190.4)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009E99

   oklch(63.1% 0.109 190.8)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008580

   oklch(55.7% 0.096 190.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #00706C

   oklch(49.2% 0.085 190.4)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005C58

   oklch(42.8% 0.074 189.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004C4A

    oklch(37.6% 0.065 191.7)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002D2C

    oklch(26.9% 0.046 192.5)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Light Light 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.