#BEF1EC 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 #BEF1EC works with other colors. Named schemes with #BEF1EC in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Pale Turquoise keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Pale Turquoise 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.
Pale Turquoise opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Pale Turquoise 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 Pale Turquoise carrying the quiet middle.
Pale Turquoise is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Pale Turquoise.
How #BEF1EC 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 #BEF1EC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BEF1EC;
--color-base-rgb: 190 241 236;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.2% 0.052 188.9);
--color-50: #F2FDFC;
--color-100: #DDF9F6;
--color-200: #BCF1EB;
--color-300: #8EE2D9;
--color-400: #63CFC4;
--color-500: #41B4A8;
--color-600: #388981;
--color-700: #2D625C;
--color-800: #21403D;
--color-900: #162726;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pale-turquoise: {
50: '#F2FDFC',
100: '#DDF9F6',
200: '#BCF1EB',
300: '#8EE2D9',
400: '#63CFC4',
500: '#41B4A8',
600: '#388981',
700: '#2D625C',
800: '#21403D',
900: '#162726',
},
}
$base: #BEF1EC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2FDFC; $base-100: #DDF9F6; $base-200: #BCF1EB; $base-300: #8EE2D9; $base-400: #63CFC4; $base-500: #41B4A8; $base-600: #388981; $base-700: #2D625C; $base-800: #21403D; $base-900: #162726; $base-hover: #78E2D8; $base-subtle: #EEF9F8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BEF1EC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2FDFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DDF9F6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BCF1EB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8EE2D9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#63CFC4",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#41B4A8",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#388981",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2D625C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#21403D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#162726",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}