#F5FCFC is a light neutral with only a whisper of temperate cast. 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 #F5FCFC works with other colors. Named schemes with #F5FCFC in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Mint Cream 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.
Mint Cream opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Mint Cream is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Mint Cream.
Mint Cream keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Mint Cream 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 Mint Cream carrying the quiet middle.
How #F5FCFC 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 #F5FCFC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F5FCFC;
--color-base-rgb: 245 252 252;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(98.6% 0.007 197.0);
--color-50: #F3FCFC;
--color-100: #DFF6F6;
--color-200: #C0ECEC;
--color-300: #95DADA;
--color-400: #6CC6C6;
--color-500: #4BAAAA;
--color-600: #3F8383;
--color-700: #325D5D;
--color-800: #233D3D;
--color-900: #172626;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
mint-cream: {
50: '#F3FCFC',
100: '#DFF6F6',
200: '#C0ECEC',
300: '#95DADA',
400: '#6CC6C6',
500: '#4BAAAA',
600: '#3F8383',
700: '#325D5D',
800: '#233D3D',
900: '#172626',
},
}
$base: #F5FCFC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCFC; $base-100: #DFF6F6; $base-200: #C0ECEC; $base-300: #95DADA; $base-400: #6CC6C6; $base-500: #4BAAAA; $base-600: #3F8383; $base-700: #325D5D; $base-800: #233D3D; $base-900: #172626; $base-hover: #A7E5E5; $base-subtle: #FCFEFE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F5FCFC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C0ECEC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#95DADA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6CC6C6",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4BAAAA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3F8383",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#325D5D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#233D3D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172626",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}