#DCFDF6 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 #DCFDF6 works with other colors. Named schemes with #DCFDF6 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 #DCFDF6 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 #DCFDF6 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DCFDF6;
--color-base-rgb: 220 253 246;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(96.9% 0.035 181.3);
--color-50: #F0FEFB;
--color-100: #D8FDF5;
--color-200: #B2FAEB;
--color-300: #7EF1D8;
--color-400: #4FE3C3;
--color-500: #2CC9A7;
--color-600: #2A9880;
--color-700: #236B5C;
--color-800: #1B463D;
--color-900: #132B25;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ice-blue: {
50: '#F0FEFB',
100: '#D8FDF5',
200: '#B2FAEB',
300: '#7EF1D8',
400: '#4FE3C3',
500: '#2CC9A7',
600: '#2A9880',
700: '#236B5C',
800: '#1B463D',
900: '#132B25',
},
}
$base: #DCFDF6; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEFB; $base-100: #D8FDF5; $base-200: #B2FAEB; $base-300: #7EF1D8; $base-400: #4FE3C3; $base-500: #2CC9A7; $base-600: #2A9880; $base-700: #236B5C; $base-800: #1B463D; $base-900: #132B25; $base-hover: #84F8DF; $base-subtle: #F6FDFC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DCFDF6",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEFB",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDF5",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B2FAEB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#7EF1D8",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#4FE3C3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#2CC9A7",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2A9880",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#236B5C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1B463D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132B25",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}