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Powder Blue

Hex #B0E0E6, rgb(176 224 230). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

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About Powder Blue

Powder Blue is a very light muted cyan-teal with the hex code #B0E0E6. In RGB it is made of 176 red, 224 green and 230 blue; in HSL its hue is 187°, with 52% saturation and 80% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 87.5%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "powderblue" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.43:1 and against black 14.65:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Powder Blue mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

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Tones (with gray)

Powder Blue 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 Powder Blue

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

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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Powder Blue with white and black. The readable text color on Powder Blue is black.

Powder Blue textSmall text on white

On white1.43:1

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

APCA Lc 21

Powder Blue textSmall text on black

On black14.65:1

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

APCA Lc -83

Black text on Powder Blue (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#D8DCE6
  • Deuteranopia#CFD4E6
  • Tritanopia#9FE4E2
  • Protanomaly#CEDCE6
  • Deuteranomaly#C9D8E6
  • Tritanomaly#A9E2E4
  • Achromatopsia#D7D7D7

Colors similar to Powder Blue

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Powder Blue in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.powder-blue {
  color: powderblue; /* #B0E0E6 */
  background-color: rgb(176 224 230);
  border-color: oklch(87.5% 0.05 205.7);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-powder-blue-500, text-powder-blue-700... */
@theme {
  --color-powder-blue-50: #F2FDFE;
  --color-powder-blue-100: #D8F1F4;
  --color-powder-blue-200: #B0E0E6;
  --color-powder-blue-300: #6CCCD8;
  --color-powder-blue-400: #00ACBB;
  --color-powder-blue-500: #0094A1;
  --color-powder-blue-600: #007F8A;
  --color-powder-blue-700: #00666F;
  --color-powder-blue-800: #00525A;
  --color-powder-blue-900: #004349;
  --color-powder-blue-950: #001A1E;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#B0E0E6] text-[#000000]">…</div>