#B0D8D5 is a pale, cool off-white. 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 #B0D8D5 works with other colors. Named schemes with #B0D8D5 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Light Blue keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Light 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.
Light Blue opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Light 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 Light Blue carrying the quiet middle.
Light 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 Light Blue.
How #B0D8D5 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 #B0D8D5 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #B0D8D5;
--color-base-rgb: 176 216 213;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(85.3% 0.042 190.8);
--color-50: #F4FAFA;
--color-100: #E3F2F1;
--color-200: #C8E4E2;
--color-300: #A2CECB;
--color-400: #7DB5B1;
--color-500: #5C9894;
--color-600: #4C7673;
--color-700: #3A5553;
--color-800: #283938;
--color-900: #1A2323;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
light-blue: {
50: '#F4FAFA',
100: '#E3F2F1',
200: '#C8E4E2',
300: '#A2CECB',
400: '#7DB5B1',
500: '#5C9894',
600: '#4C7673',
700: '#3A5553',
800: '#283938',
900: '#1A2323',
},
}
$base: #B0D8D5; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FAFA; $base-100: #E3F2F1; $base-200: #C8E4E2; $base-300: #A2CECB; $base-400: #7DB5B1; $base-500: #5C9894; $base-600: #4C7673; $base-700: #3A5553; $base-800: #283938; $base-900: #1A2323; $base-hover: #7CBEBA; $base-subtle: #E9F2F1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#B0D8D5",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FAFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E3F2F1",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C8E4E2",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A2CECB",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7DB5B1",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5C9894",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4C7673",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3A5553",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#283938",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A2323",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}