Light cyan

#dbf4ec

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

Light cyan lands where green meets blue, pale and soft. 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 #dbf4ec, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#dbf4ec

RGB219, 244, 236

HSL161, 53%, 91%

HSV161, 10%, 96%

CMYK10%, 0%, 3%, 4%

Lab94.23, -9.64, 1.07

XYZ76.7, 85.82, 91.88

Decimal14415084

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone317 C

Shades of light cyan

#baeadb #99e0c9 #78d6b8 #57cca6 #3abd93 #309c79 #267b60 #1b5a46 #11392c #071712

Tints of light cyan

#ddf5ed #dff5ee #e2f6f0 #e4f7f1 #e6f7f2 #e8f8f3 #ebf9f4 #edf9f5 #effaf7 #f1fbf8

Colors that go with light cyan

Complementary#f4dbe3 Analogous#dbf4e0 Analogous#dbf0f4 Triadic#ecdbf4 Triadic#f4ecdb Split complementary#f4dbf0 Split complementary#f4e0db

Light cyan in print

At this lightness it prints as a faint wash, best for backgrounds rather than fine type. The cmyk build is 10, 0, 3, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #dbf4ec on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

10 0 3 4

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

13 4 7 10

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 #dbf4ec straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #dbf4ec; }
.text { color: #dbf4ec; }
.border { border: 2px solid #dbf4ec; }

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 #dbf4ec against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #dbf4ec 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 #dbf4ec 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 #dbf4ec 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

Here is how the numbers for #dbf4ec are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.