#BEF4EC 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 #BEF4EC works with other colors. Named schemes with #BEF4EC 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 #BEF4EC 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 #BEF4EC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BEF4EC;
--color-base-rgb: 190 244 236;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.8% 0.056 185.1);
--color-50: #F1FDFC;
--color-100: #DBFAF5;
--color-200: #B9F3EA;
--color-300: #8AE5D8;
--color-400: #5ED4C2;
--color-500: #3CB9A6;
--color-600: #358D80;
--color-700: #2B645B;
--color-800: #1F423C;
--color-900: #152825;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pale-turquoise: {
50: '#F1FDFC',
100: '#DBFAF5',
200: '#B9F3EA',
300: '#8AE5D8',
400: '#5ED4C2',
500: '#3CB9A6',
600: '#358D80',
700: '#2B645B',
800: '#1F423C',
900: '#152825',
},
}
$base: #BEF4EC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FDFC; $base-100: #DBFAF5; $base-200: #B9F3EA; $base-300: #8AE5D8; $base-400: #5ED4C2; $base-500: #3CB9A6; $base-600: #358D80; $base-700: #2B645B; $base-800: #1F423C; $base-900: #152825; $base-hover: #73E7D6; $base-subtle: #EDFAF8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BEF4EC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FDFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DBFAF5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B9F3EA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8AE5D8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5ED4C2",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3CB9A6",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#358D80",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2B645B",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1F423C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#152825",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}