#ADDCD7 is a muted, 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 #ADDCD7 works with other colors. Named schemes with #ADDCD7 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 #ADDCD7 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 #ADDCD7 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ADDCD7;
--color-base-rgb: 173 220 215;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(86.0% 0.049 188.3);
--color-50: #F4FBFA;
--color-100: #E2F3F2;
--color-200: #C6E6E3;
--color-300: #9ED1CC;
--color-400: #78BAB3;
--color-500: #579E97;
--color-600: #487A75;
--color-700: #375854;
--color-800: #273A38;
--color-900: #192423;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
powder-blue: {
50: '#F4FBFA',
100: '#E2F3F2',
200: '#C6E6E3',
300: '#9ED1CC',
400: '#78BAB3',
500: '#579E97',
600: '#487A75',
700: '#375854',
800: '#273A38',
900: '#192423',
},
}
$base: #ADDCD7; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FBFA; $base-100: #E2F3F2; $base-200: #C6E6E3; $base-300: #9ED1CC; $base-400: #78BAB3; $base-500: #579E97; $base-600: #487A75; $base-700: #375854; $base-800: #273A38; $base-900: #192423; $base-hover: #76C4BC; $base-subtle: #E8F3F2;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ADDCD7",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E2F3F2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C6E6E3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9ED1CC",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#78BAB3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#579E97",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#487A75",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#375854",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#273A38",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192423",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}