Pale Blue #D0FEFE

About this color

#D0FEFE is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 97%, its chroma 0.047 and its hue 196°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 19.28:1.

Colors that go with Pale Blue

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

Color palettes with Pale Blue

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

• Lullaby Drift
• Kelp Pier
• Binary Runtime
• Moonpool Spring
• Cumulus Flight
• Sherbet Treat
• Cloud Mobile
• Opal Daydream

Similar named colors

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

• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.006
• Very Light Blue #D5FFFF ΔE 0.007
• Very Pale Blue #D6FFFE ΔE 0.008
• Ice Blue #D7FFFE ΔE 0.009
• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.009
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.009
• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.018
• Light Cyan #E0FFFF ΔE 0.019

More about Pale Blue

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

How to make Pale 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.

• 1 part white

Recipe result: #FFFFFF, a difference of ΔE 0.058 from Pale Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale 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 Pale 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)

   #D0FEFE

   oklch(96.5% 0.047 196.4)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DDEEEE

   oklch(93.7% 0.018 196.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C1E0E0

   oklch(88.4% 0.033 196.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #92CDCD

   oklch(80.8% 0.06 196)

5. Step 400

   400

   #49B3B5

   oklch(70.7% 0.096 196.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009D9F

   oklch(63.1% 0.107 196.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008486

   oklch(55.6% 0.095 196.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #006F70

   oklch(49.1% 0.084 195.9)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005B5C

   oklch(42.7% 0.073 196.1)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004C4D

    oklch(37.8% 0.064 196.3)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002D2E

    oklch(27% 0.046 197.1)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Pale 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.