#D9FCFC 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 #D9FCFC works with other colors. Named schemes with #D9FCFC 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 #D9FCFC 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 #D9FCFC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #D9FCFC;
--color-base-rgb: 217 252 252;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(96.6% 0.036 196.6);
--color-50: #F0FEFE;
--color-100: #D8FDFD;
--color-200: #B4F9F9;
--color-300: #81EEEE;
--color-400: #53DFDF;
--color-500: #30C5C5;
--color-600: #2C9696;
--color-700: #256A6A;
--color-800: #1C4545;
--color-900: #132A2A;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F0FEFE',
100: '#D8FDFD',
200: '#B4F9F9',
300: '#81EEEE',
400: '#53DFDF',
500: '#30C5C5',
600: '#2C9696',
700: '#256A6A',
800: '#1C4545',
900: '#132A2A',
},
}
$base: #D9FCFC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEFE; $base-100: #D8FDFD; $base-200: #B4F9F9; $base-300: #81EEEE; $base-400: #53DFDF; $base-500: #30C5C5; $base-600: #2C9696; $base-700: #256A6A; $base-800: #1C4545; $base-900: #132A2A; $base-hover: #82F5F5; $base-subtle: #F5FDFD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#D9FCFC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEFE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDFD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B4F9F9",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#81EEEE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#53DFDF",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#30C5C5",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2C9696",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#256A6A",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1C4545",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132A2A",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}