Pale Cyan #B7FFFA

About this color

#B7FFFA is a very light, moderately saturated teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 95%, its chroma 0.071 and its hue 191°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Cyan. Black text reads best on it, at 18.69:1.

Colors that go with Pale Cyan

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

Color palettes with Pale Cyan

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

• Quiet Sky
• Cumulus Flight
• Verdigris and Basin
• Opal Daydream
• Lullaby Drift
• Powder Sky
• Kelp Pier
• Pixel Dashboard

Similar named colors

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

• Eggshell Blue #C4FFF7 ΔE 0.014
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.015
• Pale Aqua #B8FFEB ΔE 0.020
• Light Light Blue #CAFFFB ΔE 0.021
• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.027
• Pale Blue #D0FEFE ΔE 0.029
• Really Light Blue #D4FFFF ΔE 0.034
• Ice #D6FFFA ΔE 0.034

More about Pale Cyan

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

How to make Pale Cyan

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

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Cyan 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 Cyan

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

   #EDF8F7

   oklch(97.1% 0.012 190.4)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #B7FFFA

   oklch(95.1% 0.071 190.6)

3. Step 200

   200

   #B3E4E1

   oklch(88.4% 0.051 191.6)

4. Step 300

   300

   #74D4CE

   oklch(80.9% 0.092 190.2)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00B8B2

   oklch(70.6% 0.122 190.6)

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

Pale Cyan 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.