#F5FCFD 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 #F5FCFD works with other colors. Named schemes with #F5FCFD 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 #F5FCFD 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 #F5FCFD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F5FCFD;
--color-base-rgb: 245 252 253;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(98.6% 0.008 207.1);
--color-50: #F2FBFD;
--color-100: #DCF5F9;
--color-200: #BBEAF1;
--color-300: #8CD7E3;
--color-400: #62C2D0;
--color-500: #3FA6B5;
--color-600: #377F8B;
--color-700: #2C5B62;
--color-800: #203C41;
--color-900: #162528;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
mint-cream: {
50: '#F2FBFD',
100: '#DCF5F9',
200: '#BBEAF1',
300: '#8CD7E3',
400: '#62C2D0',
500: '#3FA6B5',
600: '#377F8B',
700: '#2C5B62',
800: '#203C41',
900: '#162528',
},
}
$base: #F5FCFD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2FBFD; $base-100: #DCF5F9; $base-200: #BBEAF1; $base-300: #8CD7E3; $base-400: #62C2D0; $base-500: #3FA6B5; $base-600: #377F8B; $base-700: #2C5B62; $base-800: #203C41; $base-900: #162528; $base-hover: #A3E3ED; $base-subtle: #FDFEFE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F5FCFD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2FBFD",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DCF5F9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BBEAF1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8CD7E3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#62C2D0",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3FA6B5",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#377F8B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2C5B62",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#203C41",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#162528",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}