Pale Aqua #B8FFEB

About this color

#B8FFEB is a very light, moderately saturated teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 95%, its chroma 0.075 and its hue 175°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Aqua. Black text reads best on it, at 18.54:1.

Colors that go with Pale Aqua

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

Color palettes with Pale Aqua

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

• Quiet Sky
• Sunhat Weekend
• Opal Daydream
• Sunlit Gate
• Verdigris and Basin
• Static City
• Synth Boot
• Chrome Pulse

Similar named colors

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

• Pale Cyan #B7FFFA ΔE 0.020
• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.022
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.022
• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.031
• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.040
• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.041
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.042
• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.044

More about Pale Aqua

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

How to make Pale Aqua

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 0.045 from Pale Aqua. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Aqua 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 Pale Aqua

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

   #EDF8F5

   oklch(97% 0.012 178)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #B8FFEB

   oklch(94.8% 0.075 175.2)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B5E5D7

   oklch(88.4% 0.053 175.3)

4. Step 300

   300

   #77D5BD

   oklch(80.8% 0.097 175.3)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00BB9C

   oklch(70.7% 0.133 175.1)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A086

   oklch(63% 0.118 175.6)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008770

   oklch(55.7% 0.105 175.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #00715E

   oklch(49% 0.092 175.6)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005D4D

   oklch(42.7% 0.08 175.6)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004E40

    oklch(37.9% 0.071 175.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002E25

    oklch(26.9% 0.05 175.6)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale Aqua 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.