Light cyan

#cef6ea

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for light cyan, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Light cyan is a pale teal, airy between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Light cyan color values

Every conversion for #cef6ea, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#cef6ea

RGB206, 246, 234

HSL162, 69%, 89%

HSV162, 16%, 96%

CMYK16%, 0%, 5%, 4%

Lab93.87, -15.15, 1.47

XYZ73.26, 84.97, 90.38

Decimal13563626

Web safe#ccffff

Pantone317 C

Shades of light cyan

#aaefdb #87e9cb #63e2bc #40dcad #25cc9a #1fa87f #188564 #126149 #0b3d2e #051a14

Tints of light cyan

#d1f7eb #d5f7ed #d8f8ee #dcf8f0 #dff9f1 #e2faf3 #e6faf4 #e9fbf6 #edfcf7 #f0fcf9

Colors that go with light cyan

Complementary#f6ceda Analogous#cef6d6 Analogous#ceeef6 Triadic#eacef6 Triadic#f6eace Split complementary#f6ceee Split complementary#f6d6ce

Light cyan in print

In print it lays down as a whisper of ink, so keep it off small text where it can vanish. The cmyk build is 16, 0, 5, 4.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #cef6ea on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

16 0 5 4

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

19 4 9 10

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Light cyan in css

Copy #cef6ea straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #cef6ea; }
.text { color: #cef6ea; }
.border { border: 2px solid #cef6ea; }

How light cyan looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Light cyan and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #cef6ea against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #cef6ea against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Light cyan on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #cef6ea sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around light cyan? Pull matching colors from any photo with thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn light cyan into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #cef6ea and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from light cyan, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #cef6ea come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.