#CAEAEB

sRGB: 202 / 234 / 235

Celestial flames flourish beyond boundaries
Immortal legends awaken beneath celestial skies
Infinite wonders defy the passing ages

#CAEAEB belongs to the cyan family. Its hex code tells a screen to mix 202 red, 234 green and 235 blue on a scale of 0 to 255. On the HSL wheel, hue is a position around a circle: 181.8° lands in the cyan region. Its 45.2% saturation makes it partway between gray and the most vivid version of this hue at this lightness. HSL lightness is 85.7% 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 (16.48:1), which helps the shapes of letters stand out.

Color conversions

sRGB (8-bit): 202, 234, 235
HSL: 181.82°, 45.21%, 85.69%
HSV / HSB: 181.82°, 14.04%, 92.16%
CMYK (approx.): 14.04%, 0.43%, 0.00%, 7.84%
CIE XYZ (D65, Y = 100 for white): 68.772, 77.399, 89.916
CIELAB (D65, 2° observer): 90.505, -10.194, -3.996
WCAG relative luminance: 0.77400
24-bit decimal: 13298411

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 #CAEAEB 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: 16.48:1

Normal text: AAA
Large text: AAA

White text: 1.27:1

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

#EBCBCA sits half a turn (180°) from #CAEAEB 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.

#CAEAEB #EBCBCA

Analogous

#CAEBDB and #CADAEB sit 30° to either side of #CAEAEB. 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.

#CAEBDB #CAEAEB #CADAEB

Triadic

#CAEAEB, #EBCAEA and #EAEBCA are spaced 120° apart, forming a triangle on the wheel. Try one for the main color and the other two for accents.

#CAEAEB #EBCAEA #EAEBCA

Split complementary

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

#CAEAEB #EBCADA #EBDBCA

Square

Starting with #CAEAEB, each quarter turn (90°) takes you to the next hue: #DBCAEB, #EBCBCA, then #DAEBCA. Across the square, #CAEAEB pairs with #EBCBCA, and #DBCAEB with #DAEBCA.

#CAEAEB #DBCAEB #EBCBCA #DAEBCA

Tetradic

#CAEAEB and #EBCBCA are opposites, as are #CBCAEB and #EAEBCA. Together they form a rectangle on the wheel, with alternating gaps of 60° and 120°.

#CAEAEB #CBCAEB #EBCBCA #EAEBCA

Tints

Mixing #CAEAEB with white in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #D5EEEF, keeps 80% of the original. By #F4FBFB, the mixture is 80% white.

#CAEAEB #D5EEEF #DFF2F3 #EAF7F7 #F4FBFB #FFFFFF

Shades

Mixing #CAEAEB with black in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #A2BBBC, keeps 80% of the original. By #282F2F, the mixture is 80% black.

#CAEAEB #A2BBBC #798C8D #515E5E #282F2F #000000

Tones

Mixing #CAEAEB with middle gray in 20% steps produces this scale. The first mixture, #BBD5D6, keeps 80% of the original. By #8F9595, the mixture is 80% middle gray.

#CAEAEB #BBD5D6 #ACC0C0 #9EAAAB #8F9595 #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

#CAEAEB

RGB

rgb(202 234 235)

HSL

hsl(181.818 45.205% 85.686%)

CSS example

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

Channel breakdown

RGB

#CAEAEB uses 202 red, 234 green and 235 blue. Each bar shows how much of that channel’s 0–255 range the screen uses.

Red 79.2%

Green 91.8%

Blue 92.2%

CMYK

A simple CMYK estimate for #CAEAEB is 14.0% cyan, 0.4% magenta, 0.0% yellow and 7.8% black. These are ink amounts; a printer profile is needed to predict the result on paper.

Cyan 14.0%

Magenta 0.4%

Yellow 0.0%

Black 7.8%

Nearby colors

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

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

Gradient to complement

#CAEAEB #D0E5E6 #D5E0E0 #DBDBDB #E0D5D5 #E6D0D0 #EBCBCA

Color vision previews

Compare how #CAEAEB 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.

#E5E7EB

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.

#DFE2EB

Tritanopia

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

#C0ECEA

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.

#DCE7EB

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.

#D9E5EB

Tritanomaly (50%)

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

#C9EAEB

Grayscale (luminance)

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

#E4E4E4

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.

#D7E7E7

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 0.59062 G 0.82279 B 0.83077

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 0.81631 G 0.91384 B 0.91927

Linear Display P3

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

R 0.63184 G 0.81508 B 0.82609

CIE xyY

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

x 0.291 y 0.328 Y 77.399

CMY

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

C % 20.784 M % 8.235 Y % 7.843

Binary RGB

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

11001010 11101010 11101011