#B7DBCA is a muted, temperate teal. On the Color Lab it reads 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 #B7DBCA works with other colors. Named schemes with #B7DBCA 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 #B7DBCA 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 #B7DBCA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #B7DBCA;
--color-base-rgb: 183 219 202;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(86.1% 0.045 165.1);
--color-50: #F5FAF8;
--color-100: #E3F2EB;
--color-200: #C9E4D7;
--color-300: #A2CDB9;
--color-400: #7EB49B;
--color-500: #5D977C;
--color-600: #4C7562;
--color-700: #3A5548;
--color-800: #293831;
--color-900: #1A231F;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
powder-blue: {
50: '#F5FAF8',
100: '#E3F2EB',
200: '#C9E4D7',
300: '#A2CDB9',
400: '#7EB49B',
500: '#5D977C',
600: '#4C7562',
700: '#3A5548',
800: '#293831',
900: '#1A231F',
},
}
$base: #B7DBCA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F5FAF8; $base-100: #E3F2EB; $base-200: #C9E4D7; $base-300: #A2CDB9; $base-400: #7EB49B; $base-500: #5D977C; $base-600: #4C7562; $base-700: #3A5548; $base-800: #293831; $base-900: #1A231F; $base-hover: #82C0A3; $base-subtle: #EBF3EF;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#B7DBCA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5FAF8",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E3F2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C9E4D7",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A2CDB9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7EB49B",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5D977C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4C7562",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3A5548",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#293831",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A231F",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}