#DBF2EB 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 #DBF2EB works with other colors. Named schemes with #DBF2EB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Cool White 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.
Cool White opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Cool White keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Cool White 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 Cool White carrying the quiet middle.
Cool White is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Cool White.
How #DBF2EB 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 #DBF2EB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DBF2EB;
--color-base-rgb: 219 242 235;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(94.2% 0.026 175.6);
--color-50: #F3FBF9;
--color-100: #E0F5EF;
--color-200: #C3E9DE;
--color-300: #99D6C4;
--color-400: #72C0A9;
--color-500: #51A48B;
--color-600: #447E6D;
--color-700: #345A4F;
--color-800: #253C35;
--color-900: #182521;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F3FBF9',
100: '#E0F5EF',
200: '#C3E9DE',
300: '#99D6C4',
400: '#72C0A9',
500: '#51A48B',
600: '#447E6D',
700: '#345A4F',
800: '#253C35',
900: '#182521',
},
}
$base: #DBF2EB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FBF9; $base-100: #E0F5EF; $base-200: #C3E9DE; $base-300: #99D6C4; $base-400: #72C0A9; $base-500: #51A48B; $base-600: #447E6D; $base-700: #345A4F; $base-800: #253C35; $base-900: #182521; $base-hover: #96D9C5; $base-subtle: #F5FAF8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DBF2EB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FBF9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E0F5EF",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C3E9DE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#99D6C4",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#72C0A9",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#51A48B",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#447E6D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#345A4F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#253C35",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#182521",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}