#C8EFE4 is a pale, temperate off-white. 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 #C8EFE4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #C8EFE4 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 #C8EFE4 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 #C8EFE4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #C8EFE4;
--color-base-rgb: 200 239 228;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(92.1% 0.043 176.4);
--color-50: #F3FCF9;
--color-100: #DFF6F0;
--color-200: #C0EDE0;
--color-300: #94DBC7;
--color-400: #6BC7AD;
--color-500: #4AAB8F;
--color-600: #3F8370;
--color-700: #315E51;
--color-800: #233E36;
--color-900: #172622;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
pale-turquoise: {
50: '#F3FCF9',
100: '#DFF6F0',
200: '#C0EDE0',
300: '#94DBC7',
400: '#6BC7AD',
500: '#4AAB8F',
600: '#3F8370',
700: '#315E51',
800: '#233E36',
900: '#172622',
},
}
$base: #C8EFE4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCF9; $base-100: #DFF6F0; $base-200: #C0EDE0; $base-300: #94DBC7; $base-400: #6BC7AD; $base-500: #4AAB8F; $base-600: #3F8370; $base-700: #315E51; $base-800: #233E36; $base-900: #172622; $base-hover: #84DBC2; $base-subtle: #F0F9F6;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#C8EFE4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCF9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF6F0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C0EDE0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#94DBC7",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6BC7AD",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4AAB8F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3F8370",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#315E51",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#233E36",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172622",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}