#ABCCCA is a muted, temperate cyan. 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 #ABCCCA works with other colors. Named schemes with #ABCCCA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Silver keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Silver 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.
Silver opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Silver 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 Silver carrying the quiet middle.
Silver is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Silver.
How #ABCCCA 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 #ABCCCA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ABCCCA;
--color-base-rgb: 171 204 202;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(82.1% 0.035 192.0);
--color-50: #F5F9F9;
--color-100: #E5F0EF;
--color-200: #CCE0DF;
--color-300: #A8C7C5;
--color-400: #85ADAA;
--color-500: #65908D;
--color-600: #52706E;
--color-700: #3E5150;
--color-800: #2B3635;
--color-900: #1B2221;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
silver: {
50: '#F5F9F9',
100: '#E5F0EF',
200: '#CCE0DF',
300: '#A8C7C5',
400: '#85ADAA',
500: '#65908D',
600: '#52706E',
700: '#3E5150',
800: '#2B3635',
900: '#1B2221',
},
}
$base: #ABCCCA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F5F9F9; $base-100: #E5F0EF; $base-200: #CCE0DF; $base-300: #A8C7C5; $base-400: #85ADAA; $base-500: #65908D; $base-600: #52706E; $base-700: #3E5150; $base-800: #2B3635; $base-900: #1B2221; $base-hover: #7EB0AD; $base-subtle: #E7EFEE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ABCCCA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5F9F9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E5F0EF",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#CCE0DF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A8C7C5",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#85ADAA",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#65908D",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#52706E",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3E5150",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2B3635",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1B2221",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}