ColorXprez

#CEEEE8

Pale Mint · very light cool teal

About #CEEEE8

#CEEEE8 is a very light, muted teal colour. Digitally that works out to 81% red, 93% green and 91% blue. In CMYK print terms it is 13% cyan, 0% magenta, 3% yellow and 7% black. Most people will perceive it as cool.

Visually it is similar to Pale Mint (ΔE 8.6), with Powder Blue the next nearest named colour. Across the colour wheel sits #EECED4 (baby pink), its complementary partner.

Because it is very light, it is most useful for backgrounds, page sections and subtle cards. Black text reads best on it at 17.02:1 (a WCAG AAA pass).

Colour codes

HEX
RGB
HSL
HSV / HSB
CMYK
CIELAB
Decimal
CSS
Red206
Green238
Blue232

Closest named colours

Pale Mint
#C7F0DB · ΔE 8.6
Powder Blue
#B0E0E6 · ΔE 9.6
Ice Blue
#DBEEFA · ΔE 10.7

ΔE measures visible difference: under 2 is barely noticeable, over 10 is clearly different.

Text on #CEEEE8

WCAG contrast for white and black text on this colour.

White heading text
Body copy set on pale mint #CEEEE8.
1.23:1Fail
Black heading text
Body copy set on pale mint #CEEEE8.
17.02:1AAA

Colour-blindness preview

How #CEEEE8 appears to people with the three most common types of colour-vision deficiency.

Normal vision
#CEEEE8
Protanopia (no red cones)
#EBEAE8
Deuteranopia (no green cones)
#E4E5E9
Tritanopia (no blue cones)
#C6EFEC

Shades, tints & matching colours

Tints and shades

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Similar colours

Frequently asked questions

›What colour is #CEEEE8?

#CEEEE8 is a very light, muted teal colour. Digitally that works out to 81% red, 93% green and 91% blue. In CMYK print terms it is 13% cyan, 0% magenta, 3% yellow and 7% black. Most people will perceive it as cool.

›What text colour should I use on #CEEEE8?

Use black text. Black on #CEEEE8 has a contrast ratio of 17.02:1 (AAA).

›What colours go with #CEEEE8?

Its complementary colour is #EECED4, and analogous partners are #CEEED8 and #CEE4EE.