#CEF2EC is a pale, temperate off-white. 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 #CEF2EC works with other colors. Named schemes with #CEF2EC 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 #CEF2EC 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 #CEF2EC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CEF2EC;
--color-base-rgb: 206 242 236;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.4% 0.038 184.3);
--color-50: #F2FCFB;
--color-100: #DEF7F3;
--color-200: #BFEEE6;
--color-300: #92DDD1;
--color-400: #69C9B9;
--color-500: #47AD9C;
--color-600: #3D8579;
--color-700: #305F57;
--color-800: #233E3A;
--color-900: #172624;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F2FCFB',
100: '#DEF7F3',
200: '#BFEEE6',
300: '#92DDD1',
400: '#69C9B9',
500: '#47AD9C',
600: '#3D8579',
700: '#305F57',
800: '#233E3A',
900: '#172624',
},
}
$base: #CEF2EC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2FCFB; $base-100: #DEF7F3; $base-200: #BFEEE6; $base-300: #92DDD1; $base-400: #69C9B9; $base-500: #47AD9C; $base-600: #3D8579; $base-700: #305F57; $base-800: #233E3A; $base-900: #172624; $base-hover: #88DFD1; $base-subtle: #F2FAF9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CEF2EC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2FCFB",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DEF7F3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BFEEE6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#92DDD1",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#69C9B9",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#47AD9C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3D8579",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#305F57",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#233E3A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172624",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}