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Light Cyan

Hex #E0FFFF, rgb(224 255 255). A white CSS named color.

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About Light Cyan

Light Cyan is a very light near-white with the hex code #E0FFFF. In RGB it is made of 224 red, 255 green and 255 blue; in HSL its hue is 180°, with 100% saturation and 94% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 97.8%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "lightcyan" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.05:1 and against black 19.92:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Light Cyan mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Light Cyan 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Light Cyan

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split complementary

Tetradic

Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Light Cyan with white and black. The readable text color on Light Cyan is black.

Light Cyan textSmall text on white

On white1.05:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large fail
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 fail

APCA Lc 0

Light Cyan textSmall text on black

On black19.92:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA pass
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -104

Black text on Light Cyan (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Light Cyan appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#FBFCFF
  • Deuteranopia#F4F7FF
  • Tritanopia#D7FFFF
  • Protanomaly#F4FCFF
  • Deuteranomaly#F0F9FF
  • Tritanomaly#DCFFFF
  • Achromatopsia#F9F9F9

Colors similar to Light Cyan

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Light Cyan in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.light-cyan {
  color: lightcyan; /* #E0FFFF */
  background-color: rgb(224 255 255);
  border-color: oklch(97.8% 0.032 196.6);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-light-cyan-500, text-light-cyan-700... */
@theme {
  --color-light-cyan-50: #E0FFFF;
  --color-light-cyan-100: #B0FBFC;
  --color-light-cyan-200: #44F4F7;
  --color-light-cyan-300: #00D8DB;
  --color-light-cyan-400: #00B0B3;
  --color-light-cyan-500: #009799;
  --color-light-cyan-600: #008183;
  --color-light-cyan-700: #00686A;
  --color-light-cyan-800: #005455;
  --color-light-cyan-900: #004445;
  --color-light-cyan-950: #001B1B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#E0FFFF] text-[#000000]">…</div>