#AABFC0 is a muted, temperate cyan-blue. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #AABFC0 works with other colors. Named schemes with #AABFC0 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Ash Gray keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Ash Gray opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Ash Gray 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.
Ash Gray is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Ash Gray.
Ash Gray 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 Ash Gray carrying the quiet middle.
How #AABFC0 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 #AABFC0 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #AABFC0;
--color-base-rgb: 170 191 192;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(78.9% 0.023 200.2);
--color-50: #F6F8F9;
--color-100: #E7EEEE;
--color-200: #D0DCDC;
--color-300: #AEC0C1;
--color-400: #8DA4A5;
--color-500: #6D8688;
--color-600: #58696A;
--color-700: #414D4D;
--color-800: #2D3434;
--color-900: #1D2021;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ash-gray: {
50: '#F6F8F9',
100: '#E7EEEE',
200: '#D0DCDC',
300: '#AEC0C1',
400: '#8DA4A5',
500: '#6D8688',
600: '#58696A',
700: '#414D4D',
800: '#2D3434',
900: '#1D2021',
},
}
$base: #AABFC0; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F6F8F9; $base-100: #E7EEEE; $base-200: #D0DCDC; $base-300: #AEC0C1; $base-400: #8DA4A5; $base-500: #6D8688; $base-600: #58696A; $base-700: #414D4D; $base-800: #2D3434; $base-900: #1D2021; $base-hover: #80A0A1; $base-subtle: #E6EBEB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#AABFC0",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F6F8F9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E7EEEE",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D0DCDC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#AEC0C1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#8DA4A5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#6D8688",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#58696A",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#414D4D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2D3434",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1D2021",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}