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Pale Cyan
#C3DFDE

Pale Cyan (#C3DFDE) with RGB(195, 223, 222) and HSL(178, 30%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

TurquoisePastelcool

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Interactive

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Active theme: Pale Cyan

Values

Production-ready color values

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HEX

#C3DFDE

RGB

rgb(195, 223, 222)

HSL

hsl(178, 30%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(178, 13%, 87%)

CMYK

cmyk(13%, 0%, 0%, 13%)

Decimal

12836830

Contrast

Accessibility checks

On white

1.41:1

On black

14.93:1

Shades

Tonal scale

#0E1B1A #1B3231 #2D5352 #3E7472 #509593 #6AAFAC #8BC1BF #A5CFCD #C3DFDE #E1EFEE

90080070060050040030020010050

Accessibility

Contrast Audit

On White

FAIL

Text

1.41:1

On Black

WCAG AA PASS

Text

14.93:1

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

#C3DFDE #DFC3C4

Triadic

Open palette

#C3DFDE #DEC3DF #DFDEC3

Analogous

Open palette

#C3DFD0 #C3DFD7 #C3DFDE #C3D9DF #C3D2DF

Split complementary

Open palette

#C3DFDE #DFC3D2 #DFD0C3

Tetradic

Open palette

#C3DFDE #D0C3DF #DFC3C4 #D2DFC3

Monochromatic

Open palette

#244241 #3E7472 #59A6A3 #8BC1BF #BDDBDA

Analysis

Design expert profile

Detailed psychological and professional strategy for this specific tone.

Pale Cyan (#C3DFDE) with RGB(195, 223, 222) and HSL(178, 30%, 82%). Suitable for modern interface themes, branding accents, and design systems.

turquoisepastelcoolhex-c3dfdeh-178s-30l-82

Region

Language

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Developer Handoff

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CSS

/* Pale Cyan */
color: #C3DFDE;
background-color: #C3DFDE;
border-color: #C3DFDE;
box-shadow: 0 4px 24px #c3dfde40;

Tailwind CSS

bg-[#C3DFDE] text-[#C3DFDE] border-[#C3DFDE] ring-[#C3DFDE]

SwiftUI

Color(red: 0.765, green: 0.875, blue: 0.871)

Flutter / Dart

Color(0xFFC3DFDE)

Android XML

<color name="pale_cyan">#C3DFDE</color>

React Native

{ color: '#C3DFDE' }

Social Media

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Closest real-world color

Farrow & Ball

Borrowed Light

No. 235 · #C8D8E0

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About

About Pale Cyan

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

Meaning

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

Applications

Pale Cyan (#C3DFDE) with RGB(195, 223, 222) and HSL(178, 30%, 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

Turquoise

Tone

Pastel

Temperature

cool

Keywords

turquoise, pastel, cool, hex-c3dfde, h-178, s-30

Conversion

Color conversions

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

HEX

#C3DFDE

RGB

rgb(195, 223, 222)

HSL

hsl(178, 30%, 82%)

HSV

hsv(178, 13%, 87%)

CMYK

cmyk(13%, 0%, 0%, 13%)

Variations

Shades and tonal variations

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

#0E1B1A #1B3231 #2D5352 #3E7472 #509593 #6AAFAC #8BC1BF #A5CFCD #C3DFDE #E1EFEE

900

#0E1B1A

800

#1B3231

700

#2D5352

600

#3E7472

500

#509593

400

#6AAFAC

Color harmonies

Harmony-based palette routes

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

Complementary

Open palette

#C3DFDE #DFC3C4

Triadic

Open palette

#C3DFDE #DEC3DF #DFDEC3

Analogous

Open palette

#C3DFD0 #C3DFD7 #C3DFDE #C3D9DF #C3D2DF

Split complementary

Open palette

#C3DFDE #DFC3D2 #DFD0C3

Tetradic

Open palette

#C3DFDE #D0C3DF #DFC3C4 #D2DFC3

Monochromatic

Open palette

#244241 #3E7472 #59A6A3 #8BC1BF #BDDBDA

Blindness simulator

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia

#CFCFDE

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

Deuteranopia

#CECBDE

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

Tritanopia

#C4DEDE

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

1.41:1

Fails normal and large text guidance.

On black

14.93:1

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 Cyan

Closest standard CSS name to #C3DFDE for developer-friendly reference and docs.

Design token

--color-turquoise-pastel

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

Tailwind-friendly scale

turquoise-500

A naming pattern that fits Tailwind-style scale systems and keeps #C3DFDE as the core value.

HSL token

178 30% 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 Cyan#C3DFDE

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 Cyan

Nearby named colors

Closest real-world color

About Pale Cyan

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 Cyan
#C3DFDE