#DBF4F0 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 #DBF4F0 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DBF4F0 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 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 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 #DBF4F0 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 #DBF4F0 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DBF4F0;
--color-base-rgb: 219 244 240;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(94.8% 0.027 185.2);
--color-50: #F3FCFA;
--color-100: #DFF6F2;
--color-200: #C1ECE5;
--color-300: #95DACE;
--color-400: #6DC5B6;
--color-500: #4CA99A;
--color-600: #408277;
--color-700: #325D56;
--color-800: #243D39;
--color-900: #172623;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
cool-white: {
50: '#F3FCFA',
100: '#DFF6F2',
200: '#C1ECE5',
300: '#95DACE',
400: '#6DC5B6',
500: '#4CA99A',
600: '#408277',
700: '#325D56',
800: '#243D39',
900: '#172623',
},
}
$base: #DBF4F0; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCFA; $base-100: #DFF6F2; $base-200: #C1ECE5; $base-300: #95DACE; $base-400: #6DC5B6; $base-500: #4CA99A; $base-600: #408277; $base-700: #325D56; $base-800: #243D39; $base-900: #172623; $base-hover: #95DED2; $base-subtle: #F5FBFA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DBF4F0",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF6F2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C1ECE5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#95DACE",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6DC5B6",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4CA99A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#408277",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#325D56",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#243D39",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172623",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}