Light cyan

#dafefa

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

Light cyan is a pale teal, quiet between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Light cyan color values

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

Hex#dafefa

RGB218, 254, 250

HSL173, 95%, 93%

HSV173, 14%, 100%

CMYK14%, 0%, 2%, 0%

Lab97.1, -12.28, -1.98

XYZ81.61, 92.69, 104.03

Decimal14352122

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone317 C

Shades of light cyan

#affdf4 #84fcee #59fbe9 #2ef9e3 #07f5da #05cab4 #049f8e #037467 #024941 #011e1b

Tints of light cyan

#dcfefa #defefb #e0fefb #e2fefb #e4fefb #e6fefc #e8fefc #eafefc #ecfefc #eefffd

Colors that go with light cyan

Complementary#fedade Analogous#dafee8 Analogous#daf0fe Triadic#fadafe Triadic#fefada Split complementary#fedaf0 Split complementary#fee8da

Light cyan in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 14, 0, 2, 0.

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

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

14 0 2 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

17 4 6 6

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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light cyan in css

Copy #dafefa straight into your stylesheet.

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

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 #dafefa against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

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

Light cyan on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #dafefa 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light cyan into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #dafefa 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 #dafefa is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.