#C8EBFF

sRGB: 200 / 235 / 255

Celestial flames illuminate hidden paths
Immortal legends shimmer across boundless heavens
Celestial symphonies echo beyond eternity

#C8EBFF belongs to the azure family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 200 red, 235 green and 255 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 201.8° lands in the azure region. Its 100.0% saturation makes it strong in color at this lightness. HSL lightness is 89.2% on a scale from black (0%) to white (100%). Of black and white lettering, black has the clearer light-to-dark separation on this background (16.78:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 200, 235, 255
HSL: 201.82°, 100.00%, 89.22%
HSV / HSB: 201.82°, 21.57%, 100.00%
CMYK (approx.): 21.57%, 7.84%, 0.00%, 0.00%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 71.574, 78.915, 106.072
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 91.196, -7.156, -13.430
WCAG relative luminance: 0.78916
24-bit decimal: 13167615

CMYK uses a profile-free approximation. Printed output depends on the press, ink and paper. Lab uses a D65 white point.

Text contrast

Contrast tells you how clearly lettering separates from #C8EBFF in light and dark. The ratio compares relative luminance, a measure of light weighted for human vision. Identical colors give 1:1 and black against white gives 21:1. A ratio of 2.99:1 falls just below the 3:1 AA minimum for large text. Body text needs at least 4.5:1 because its finer strokes are harder to distinguish.

Black text: 16.78:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.25:1

Normal text: Fail
Large text: Fail

AA and AAA are WCAG accessibility levels. AAA sets a higher bar: 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text. Large text begins at 18 pt regular or 14 pt bold. Ratings use the unrounded ratio.

Reference: WCAG text contrast guidance

Palettes & scales

Harmonies rotate the hue. Scales mix the starting color with white, black or middle gray in 20% steps in encoded sRGB.

Complementary

#FFDCC8 sits half a turn (180°) from #C8EBFF on the HSL wheel. Keeping saturation and lightness steady while crossing to the opposite hue gives you a contrasting accent. Check text contrast separately before using the pair for lettering.

#C8EBFF #FFDCC8

Analogous

#C8FFF7 and #C8D0FF sit 30° to either side of #C8EBFF. The three hues are neighbors on the wheel, so you can change the color of a border or highlight while keeping it close to the original.

#C8FFF7 #C8EBFF #C8D0FF

Triadic

#C8EBFF, #FFC8EB and #EBFFC8 are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#C8EBFF #FFC8EB #EBFFC8

Split complementary

Start at #C8EBFF and look across the wheel. #FFC8D0 and #FFF7C8 sit 30° to either side of its exact opposite, giving you two different accent choices.

#C8EBFF #FFC8D0 #FFF7C8

Square

Starting with #C8EBFF, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #F7C8FF, #FFDCC8, then #D0FFC8. Across the square, #C8EBFF pairs with #FFDCC8, and #F7C8FF with #D0FFC8.

#C8EBFF #F7C8FF #FFDCC8 #D0FFC8

Tetradic

#C8EBFF and #FFDCC8 are opposites, as are #DCC8FF and #EBFFC8. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#C8EBFF #DCC8FF #FFDCC8 #EBFFC8

Tints

Mixing #C8EBFF with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D3EFFF, keeps 80% of the original. By #F4FBFF, the mixture is 80% white.

#C8EBFF #D3EFFF #DEF3FF #E9F7FF #F4FBFF #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #C8EBFF with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A0BCCC, keeps 80% of the original. By #282F33, the mixture is 80% black.

#C8EBFF #A0BCCC #788D99 #505E66 #282F33 #000000

Tones

Mixing #C8EBFF with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BAD6E6, keeps 80% of the original. By #8E9599, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#C8EBFF #BAD6E6 #ABC0CC #9DABB3 #8E9599 #808080

Copy color codes

Hex, RGB and HSL are three ways to write this screen color. Paste any of them into a CSS color property.

Hex

#C8EBFF

RGB

rgb(200 235 255)

HSL

hsl(201.818 100.000% 89.216%)

CSS example

.color-sample {
  background-color: #C8EBFF;
  color: #000000;
}

Channel breakdown

RGB

#C8EBFF uses 200 red, 235 green and 255 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 78.4%

Green 92.2%

Blue 100.0%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #C8EBFF is 21.6% cyan, 7.8% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 0.0% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 21.6%

Magenta 7.8%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 0.0%

Nearby colors

The nearest shorthand match is #CCEEFF. Its matching digit pairs let you write it as #CEF in CSS. For a modern design, keep #C8EBFF when you want an exact match. Use its web-safe neighbor, #CCFFFF, when matching a legacy palette of 216 colors.

Nearest shorthand: #CCEEFF Nearest web-safe: #CCFFFF

Gradient to complement

#C8EBFF #D1E9F6 #DAE6ED #E4E4E4 #EDE1DA #F6DFD1 #FFDCC8

Color vision previews

Compare how #C8EBFF appears in each simulation. When two chart lines or status indicators become hard to tell apart, a label, shape or line pattern gives readers another way to distinguish them. Individual perception varies.

Protanopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from long-wavelength cones, some reds and greens can look alike, and reds can appear darker.

#E2E9FF

Deuteranopia

A red–green color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from medium-wavelength cones, some greens can be difficult to distinguish from reds or browns.

#DAE3FF

Tritanopia

A blue–yellow color vision deficiency. Without a distinct response from short-wavelength cones, blue can resemble green, and yellow can resemble pink.

#B9F1F1

Protanomaly (50%)

An altered long-wavelength cone response can make reds appear dimmer and harder to distinguish from greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#D9E9FF

Deuteranomaly (50%)

An altered medium-wavelength cone response can reduce the visible difference between reds and greens. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#D5E6FF

Tritanomaly (50%)

An altered short-wavelength cone response can make blue harder to distinguish from green. This swatch shows the model’s halfway setting.

#C6ECFA

Grayscale (luminance)

This design check removes hue and preserves relative luminance so you can compare light and dark areas.

#E6E6E6

Partial grayscale (50% blend)

This design check mixes the original color halfway toward its grayscale equivalent in linear light. Use it to see how a design holds up as color fades.

#D8E8F3

Reference: National Eye Institute: Types of Color Vision Deficiency

Technical reference

CAM16 and CIECAM02 below assume D65 white, an average surround, background Y of 20 against white at 100, and adapting luminance of 4.07 cd/m².

Linear sRGB

These channels scale with emitted light. Use them for lighting calculations and physically meaningful blends.

R 0.57758 G 0.83077 B 1.00000

Display P3

P3 displays can reproduce a wider range of reds and greens. These coordinates reproduce this same sRGB swatch on a color-managed P3 display.

R 0.81094 G 0.91744 B 0.99139

Linear Display P3

These P3 channels are proportional to light, before display encoding.

R 0.62253 G 0.82237 B 0.98053

CIE xyY

The x and y coordinates locate chromaticity on a diagram. Y gives relative luminance on a scale where white is 100.

x 0.279 y 0.308 Y 78.915

CMY

Ideal cyan, magenta and yellow are the complements of the encoded red, green and blue channels.

C % 21.569 M % 7.843 Y % 0.000

Binary RGB

Each eight-bit group represents one channel. Together they store the 24-bit hex color.

11001000 11101011 11111111