Light cyan

#ddf8ff

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, airy 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 #ddf8ff, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#ddf8ff

RGB221, 248, 255

HSL192, 100%, 93%

HSV192, 13%, 100%

CMYK13%, 3%, 0%, 0%

Lab95.88, -7.36, -6.33

XYZ81.44, 89.73, 107.63

Decimal14547199

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone628 C

Shades of light cyan

#b0efff #84e6ff #57dcff #2bd3ff #00c9fd #00a6d1 #0082a4 #005f78 #003c4b #00181f

Colors that go with light cyan

Complementary#ffe4dd Analogous#ddfff5 Analogous#dde7ff Triadic#ffddf8 Triadic#f8ffdd Split complementary#ffdde7 Split complementary#fff5dd

Light cyan in print

In print it lays down as a whisper of ink, so keep it off small text where it can vanish. The cmyk build is 13, 3, 0, 0.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #ddf8ff on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

13 3 0 0

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

16 7 4 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 read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Light cyan in css

Copy #ddf8ff straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #ddf8ff; }
.text { color: #ddf8ff; }
.border { border: 2px solid #ddf8ff; }

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 #ddf8ff against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #ddf8ff 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 #ddf8ff 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 #ddf8ff 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

The figures for #ddf8ff come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.