#DBFAF2 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 #DBFAF2 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DBFAF2 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 #DBFAF2 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 #DBFAF2 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DBFAF2;
--color-base-rgb: 219 250 242;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(96.1% 0.034 178.3);
--color-50: #F1FEFB;
--color-100: #DAFBF3;
--color-200: #B7F5E6;
--color-300: #87E9D0;
--color-400: #5AD8B8;
--color-500: #37BD9C;
--color-600: #329079;
--color-700: #296657;
--color-800: #1E433A;
--color-900: #142924;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F1FEFB',
100: '#DAFBF3',
200: '#B7F5E6',
300: '#87E9D0',
400: '#5AD8B8',
500: '#37BD9C',
600: '#329079',
700: '#296657',
800: '#1E433A',
900: '#142924',
},
}
$base: #DBFAF2; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FEFB; $base-100: #DAFBF3; $base-200: #B7F5E6; $base-300: #87E9D0; $base-400: #5AD8B8; $base-500: #37BD9C; $base-600: #329079; $base-700: #296657; $base-800: #1E433A; $base-900: #142924; $base-hover: #89EFD5; $base-subtle: #F5FCFB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DBFAF2",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FEFB",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DAFBF3",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B7F5E6",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#87E9D0",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5AD8B8",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#37BD9C",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#329079",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#296657",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1E433A",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#142924",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}