#CBFCF4 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 #CBFCF4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #CBFCF4 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 #CBFCF4 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 #CBFCF4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CBFCF4;
--color-base-rgb: 203 252 244;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(95.5% 0.051 184.2);
--color-50: #F0FEFC;
--color-100: #D8FDF7;
--color-200: #B2FAEE;
--color-300: #7EF1DE;
--color-400: #4FE3CA;
--color-500: #2CC9AF;
--color-600: #2A9886;
--color-700: #236B5F;
--color-800: #1B463F;
--color-900: #132B27;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F0FEFC',
100: '#D8FDF7',
200: '#B2FAEE',
300: '#7EF1DE',
400: '#4FE3CA',
500: '#2CC9AF',
600: '#2A9886',
700: '#236B5F',
800: '#1B463F',
900: '#132B27',
},
}
$base: #CBFCF4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEFC; $base-100: #D8FDF7; $base-200: #B2FAEE; $base-300: #7EF1DE; $base-400: #4FE3CA; $base-500: #2CC9AF; $base-600: #2A9886; $base-700: #236B5F; $base-800: #1B463F; $base-900: #132B27; $base-hover: #74F7E1; $base-subtle: #F1FCFA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CBFCF4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDF7",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B2FAEE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#7EF1DE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#4FE3CA",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#2CC9AF",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2A9886",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#236B5F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1B463F",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132B27",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}