#9FF4EA is a soft, cool cyan. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #9FF4EA works with other colors. Named schemes with #9FF4EA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Pale Turquoise keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Pale Turquoise sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Pale Turquoise opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Pale Turquoise is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Pale Turquoise carrying the quiet middle.
Pale Turquoise is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Pale Turquoise.
How #9FF4EA actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #9FF4EA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #9FF4EA;
--color-base-rgb: 159 244 234;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(91.0% 0.084 186.5);
--color-50: #F1FEFC;
--color-100: #DAFCF8;
--color-200: #B6F6EF;
--color-300: #85EBDF;
--color-400: #58DACB;
--color-500: #35C0B0;
--color-600: #309287;
--color-700: #286760;
--color-800: #1D433F;
--color-900: #142927;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pale-turquoise: {
50: '#F1FEFC',
100: '#DAFCF8',
200: '#B6F6EF',
300: '#85EBDF',
400: '#58DACB',
500: '#35C0B0',
600: '#309287',
700: '#286760',
800: '#1D433F',
900: '#142927',
},
}
$base: #9FF4EA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FEFC; $base-100: #DAFCF8; $base-200: #B6F6EF; $base-300: #85EBDF; $base-400: #58DACB; $base-500: #35C0B0; $base-600: #309287; $base-700: #286760; $base-800: #1D433F; $base-900: #142927; $base-hover: #57EBDA; $base-subtle: #E5F9F6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#9FF4EA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FEFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DAFCF8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B6F6EF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#85EBDF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#58DACB",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#35C0B0",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#309287",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#286760",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1D433F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#142927",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}