Light cyan

#c8efea

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for light cyan, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Light cyan is a light teal, soft between blue and green. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Light cyan color values

Every conversion for #c8efea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#c8efea

RGB200, 239, 234

HSL172, 55%, 86%

HSV172, 16%, 94%

CMYK16%, 0%, 2%, 6%

Lab91.66, -13.53, -1.8

XYZ69.54, 79.95, 89.61

Decimal13168618

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone317 C

Shades of light cyan

#a8e6de #89ddd2 #69d3c6 #49caba #35b6a5 #2c9689 #23776c #19574f #103732 #071816

Tints of light cyan

#d0f1ed #d8f4f0 #e1f6f3 #e9f9f7 #f1fbfa

Colors that go with light cyan

Complementary#efc8cd Analogous#c8efd6 Analogous#c8e1ef Triadic#eac8ef Triadic#efeac8 Split complementary#efc8e1 Split complementary#efd6c8

Light cyan in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 16, 0, 2, 6.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #c8efea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 0 2 6

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 4 6 12

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Light cyan in css

Copy #c8efea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #c8efea; }
.text { color: #c8efea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #c8efea; }

How light cyan looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light cyan and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #c8efea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #c8efea against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light cyan on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #c8efea sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light cyan? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn light cyan into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #c8efea and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from light cyan, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #c8efea is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The coated and uncoated cmyk builds differ because uncoated stock absorbs more ink and gains dot, so the same color needs a heavier, slightly duller build on press. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.