#CBFBF8 is a muted, 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 #CBFBF8 works with other colors. Named schemes with #CBFBF8 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Ice Blue keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Ice 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.
Ice Blue opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Ice 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 Ice Blue carrying the quiet middle.
Ice 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 Ice Blue.
How #CBFBF8 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 #CBFBF8 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CBFBF8;
--color-base-rgb: 203 251 248;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(95.4% 0.049 191.7);
--color-50: #F0FEFD;
--color-100: #D8FDFB;
--color-200: #B3F9F4;
--color-300: #80EFE8;
--color-400: #52E0D7;
--color-500: #2FC6BC;
--color-600: #2B968F;
--color-700: #256A65;
--color-800: #1C4542;
--color-900: #132A29;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F0FEFD',
100: '#D8FDFB',
200: '#B3F9F4',
300: '#80EFE8',
400: '#52E0D7',
500: '#2FC6BC',
600: '#2B968F',
700: '#256A65',
800: '#1C4542',
900: '#132A29',
},
}
$base: #CBFBF8; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEFD; $base-100: #D8FDFB; $base-200: #B3F9F4; $base-300: #80EFE8; $base-400: #52E0D7; $base-500: #2FC6BC; $base-600: #2B968F; $base-700: #256A65; $base-800: #1C4542; $base-900: #132A29; $base-hover: #76F5EC; $base-subtle: #F1FCFB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CBFBF8",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEFD",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B3F9F4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#80EFE8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#52E0D7",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#2FC6BC",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2B968F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#256A65",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1C4542",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132A29",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}