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Pale Blue
#B6DEEC

Pale Blue (#B6DEEC) with RGB(182, 222, 236) and HSL(196, 59%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

CyanPastelcool

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Interactive

UI Sandbox

Project Dashboard

Active theme: Pale Blue

Values

Production-ready color values

Copy formats for CSS, handoff docs, tokens, and implementation.

HEX

#B6DEEC

RGB

rgb(182, 222, 236)

HSL

hsl(196, 59%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(196, 23%, 93%)

CMYK

cmyk(23%, 6%, 0%, 7%)

Decimal

11984620

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.43:1

On black

14.65:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#081A20 #10313D #1A5165 #25728E #2F92B6 #49ACD0 #71BEDA #92CDE3 #B6DEEC #DBEEF6

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.43:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

14.65:1

Vision

Simulator

protanopia

deuteranopia

tritanopia

Harmonies

Palette combinations from this base color

Open any harmony as a shareable palette route and keep refining from there.

Complementary

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECC4B6

Triadic

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECB6DE #DEECB6

Analogous

Open palette

#B6ECE0 #B6EBEC #B6DEEC #B6D0EC #B6C3EC

Split complementary

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECB6C3 #ECE0B6

Tetradic

Open palette

#B6DEEC #E0B6EC #ECC4B6 #C3ECB6

Monochromatic

Open palette

#154151 #25728E #34A3CB #71BEDA #AEDAEA

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Pale Blue (#B6DEEC) with RGB(182, 222, 236) and HSL(196, 59%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

cyanpastelcoolhex-b6deech-196s-59l-82

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Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Pale Blue */
color: #B6DEEC;
background-color: #B6DEEC;
border-color: #B6DEEC;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #b6deec40;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#B6DEEC] text-[#B6DEEC] border-[#B6DEEC] ring-[#B6DEEC]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.714, green: 0.871, blue: 0.925)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFB6DEEC)

Android XML

<color name="pale_blue">#B6DEEC</color>

React Native

{ color: '#B6DEEC' }

Social Media

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Sea Salt

SW 6204 · #B2D8D8

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About

About Pale Blue

This section gives the same kind of richer color context you’d expect from a dedicated color reference page.

Meaning

Pale Blue sits in the cyan family with a pastel tone, so it opens softer surface systems. It reads as calm, credible, and interface-friendly.

Applications

Pale Blue (#B6DEEC) with RGB(182, 222, 236) and HSL(196, 59%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems. It performs better as foreground color on dark interfaces and dense contrast surfaces.

Family

Cyan

Tone

Pastel

Temperature

cool

Keywords

cyan, pastel, cool, hex-b6deec, h-196, s-59

Conversion

Color conversions

Use these values in CSS, product docs, design tokens, and print-oriented workflows.

HEX

#B6DEEC

RGB

rgb(182, 222, 236)

HSL

hsl(196, 59%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(196, 23%, 93%)

CMYK

cmyk(23%, 6%, 0%, 7%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

Build softer surfaces, deeper states, and a cleaner tonal system from the same base hue.

#081A20 #10313D #1A5165 #25728E #2F92B6 #49ACD0 #71BEDA #92CDE3 #B6DEEC #DBEEF6

900

#081A20

800

#10313D

700

#1A5165

600

#25728E

500

#2F92B6

400

#49ACD0

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

Move from a single color into full palette ideas based on common harmony systems.

Complementary

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECC4B6

Triadic

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECB6DE #DEECB6

Analogous

Open palette

#B6ECE0 #B6EBEC #B6DEEC #B6D0EC #B6C3EC

Split complementary

Open palette

#B6DEEC #ECB6C3 #ECE0B6

Tetradic

Open palette

#B6DEEC #E0B6EC #ECC4B6 #C3ECB6

Monochromatic

Open palette

#154151 #25728E #34A3CB #71BEDA #AEDAEA

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

These simulations help you judge whether the color keeps enough identity across common color-vision variations.

Protanopia

#C7C8E9

Red-sensitive cones are reduced, so warm reds and greens can collapse toward similar mid-tones.

Deuteranopia

#C5C2E8

Green-sensitive cones are reduced, which often compresses green and red distinctions.

Tritanopia

#B8E6E5

Blue-sensitive cones are reduced, which shifts blues and yellows toward flatter blends.

Contrast checker

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Use these quick checks to understand where the color is more reliable for text, icons, and UI foregrounds.

On white

1.43:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

14.65:1

AAA passes for normal text.

Similar colors

Nearby color references

Use nearby colors when you want alternatives with a similar overall feel but a different hue or intensity.

Color libraries

Library-ready mappings

These mappings help you slot the color into CSS names, Tailwind-like scales, and semantic design tokens faster.

CSS named match

Pale Blue

Closest standard CSS name to #B6DEEC for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-cyan-pastel

A token-friendly alias you can use in design systems, Tailwind maps, or CSS variables.

Tailwind-friendly scale

cyan-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #B6DEEC as the core value.

HSL token

196 59% 82%

Useful when your component library or theme layer stores semantic colors in HSL channels.

Color palettes

Palette ideas related to this color

These palette routes are pulled from the curated library based on RGB similarity, so you can branch into more complete systems quickly.

Pale Blue#B6DEEC

UI Sandbox

Production-ready color values

Accessibility checks

Tonal scale

Contrast Audit

Simulator

Palette combinations from this base color

Design expert profile

Language

Copy for any framework

Share this color

Pale Blue

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Pale Blue

Color conversions

Shades and tonal variations

Harmony-based palette routes

Color blindness preview

Accessibility contrast snapshots

Nearby color references

Library-ready mappings

Palette ideas related to this color

Pale Blue
#B6DEEC