Pale Turquoise #AFEEEE

About this color

#AFEEEE is a very light, muted teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 91%, its chroma 0.063 and its hue 196°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Pale Turquoise. Black text reads best on it, at 16.28:1.

Colors that go with Pale Turquoise

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

Color palettes with Pale Turquoise

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

• Ripple Haven
• Ripple Glass
• Aerial Blue
• Slate Window
• Verdigris and Basin
• Powder Sky
• Studio Roadmap
• Cloud and Dove

Similar named colors

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

• Robin's Egg Blue #98EFF9 ΔE 0.025
• Diamond #B9F2FF ΔE 0.027
• Pale Sky Blue #BDF6FE ΔE 0.032
• Powder Blue #B0E0E6 ΔE 0.036
• Robin Egg Blue #8AF1FE ΔE 0.038
• Duck Egg Blue #C3FBF4 ΔE 0.043
• Pale Cyan #B7FFFA ΔE 0.046
• Pale Aqua #B8FFEB ΔE 0.049

More about Pale Turquoise

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

How to make Pale Turquoise

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 blue

Recipe result: #C0E0F8, a difference of ΔE 0.046 from Pale Turquoise. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make teal or cyan? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Pale Turquoise 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 Turquoise

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 200.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EEF8F8

   oklch(97.2% 0.011 197)

2. Step 100

   100

   #D9EFEF

   oklch(93.6% 0.023 196.8)

3. Step 200

   200 (this color)

   #AFEEEE

   oklch(90.7% 0.063 196.1)

4. Step 300

   300

   #7ED1D2

   oklch(80.8% 0.081 196.7)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00B7B9

   oklch(70.6% 0.12 196.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #009D9F

   oklch(63.1% 0.107 196.4)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008485

   oklch(55.6% 0.095 195.7)

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 Turquoise 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.