#ACDFDB is a soft, cool 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 #ACDFDB works with other colors. Named schemes with #ACDFDB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Powder Blue keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Powder Blue 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.
Powder Blue opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Powder Blue 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 Powder Blue carrying the quiet middle.
Powder Blue is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Powder Blue.
How #ACDFDB 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 #ACDFDB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ACDFDB;
--color-base-rgb: 172 223 219;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(86.7% 0.053 190.3);
--color-50: #F4FBFA;
--color-100: #E1F4F3;
--color-200: #C4E8E5;
--color-300: #9BD4CF;
--color-400: #75BDB7;
--color-500: #54A19B;
--color-600: #467C78;
--color-700: #365956;
--color-800: #263B39;
--color-900: #192524;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
powder-blue: {
50: '#F4FBFA',
100: '#E1F4F3',
200: '#C4E8E5',
300: '#9BD4CF',
400: '#75BDB7',
500: '#54A19B',
600: '#467C78',
700: '#365956',
800: '#263B39',
900: '#192524',
},
}
$base: #ACDFDB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FBFA; $base-100: #E1F4F3; $base-200: #C4E8E5; $base-300: #9BD4CF; $base-400: #75BDB7; $base-500: #54A19B; $base-600: #467C78; $base-700: #365956; $base-800: #263B39; $base-900: #192524; $base-hover: #72C8C1; $base-subtle: #E8F3F2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ACDFDB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E1F4F3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C4E8E5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9BD4CF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#75BDB7",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#54A19B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#467C78",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#365956",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#263B39",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192524",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}