HEX atlas value

#B2FFFF

#B2FFFF is a cool cyan HEX color nearest Celeste. RGB 178, 255, 255, HSL 180° 100% 85%, luminance 0.882; view contrast and conversions.

cyan cool pastel

#B2FFFF Sample readable text

HEX #B2FFFF

RGB rgb(178, 255, 255)

HSL hsl(180 100% 85%)

CMYK cmyk(30, 0, 0, 0)

Luminance 0.882

Contrast Black 18.64:1White 1.13:1

CSS

--color-b2ffff: #B2FFFF;
.background-b2ffff { background-color: #B2FFFF; }
.text-b2ffff { color: #B2FFFF; }

HEX meaning and use

About #B2FFFF

#B2FFFF is classified as a cool cyan value with pastel visual character. #B2FFFF is visually closest to Celeste, a named cyan color with HEX #B2FFFF.

The RGB channels are 178, 255, and 255, with green carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 180deg with 100% saturation and 85% lightness, so this page treats it as a high-saturation, light atlas color rather than a generic swatch.

Practical uses for this HEX value include color conversion, WCAG contrast checks, CSS color tokens, and soft UI backgrounds. Its luminance is 0.882, black text provides the stronger contrast for readable interface or documentation use, and Its nearest named-color distance is 0.00, which helps separate this atlas value from adjacent named color records.

WCAG Accessibility

Black text18.64:1AA Pass

White text1.13:1AA Fail

AA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

AAA text options: #000000, #1A1A1A, #36454F.

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #B2FFFF needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000018.64:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.13:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #B3FFFF#B3FFFF · #000000 text · best 18.66:1 Duck Egg Blue#C3FBF4 · #000000 text · best 18.43:1 Ice Blue#D6F5FF · #000000 text · best 18.36:1 #B3FFD9#B3FFD9 · #000000 text · best 18.22:1

Generated Palette

Celeste#B2FFFF

#FFB3B3#FFB3B3

#B3FFD9#B3FFD9

#B3D9FF#B3D9FF

White#FFFFFF

#57FFFF#57FFFF

Color Harmonies

#FFB3B3#FFB3B3

#B3FFD9#B3FFD9

#B3D9FF#B3D9FF

#FFB3FF#FFB3FF

#FFFFB3#FFFFB3

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#57FFFF#57FFFF

#B3FFFF#B3FFFF

#BBF7F7#BBF7F7

White#FFFFFF

#DBFFFF#DBFFFF

Nearest Named Colors

Celeste#B2FFFF

Duck Egg Blue#C3FBF4

Pale Turquoise#AFEEEE

Arctic Blue#C6E6FB

Ice Blue#D6F5FF

Luminance0.882

Black text18.64:1AA Pass

White text1.13:1AA Fail

hexCanonical HEX value

rgbRed, green, blue channels

hslHue, saturation, lightness

cmykApproximate print conversion

wcagAA and AAA contrast options

harmoniesMathematical harmony sets

variantsGenerated tone variants

nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors

Structured sections

Color systems

{"hex":"#B2FFFF","rgb":[178,255,255],"hsl":[180,100,85],"cmyk":[30,0,0,0],"luminance":0.882,"contrast":{"black":18.64,"white":1.13}}

WCAG

{"AA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"AAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":18.64,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.13,"wcagAA":false,"wcagAAA":false}]

Accessible alternatives

[{"name":"White","hex":"#FFFFFF","family":"gray","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":21,"contrastWhite":1,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#B3FFFF","hex":"#B3FFFF","family":"cyan","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.66,"contrastWhite":1.13,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Duck Egg Blue","hex":"#C3FBF4","family":"cyan","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.43,"contrastWhite":1.14,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Ice Blue","hex":"#D6F5FF","family":"blue","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.36,"contrastWhite":1.14,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"#B3FFD9","hex":"#B3FFD9","family":"green","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.22,"contrastWhite":1.15,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["cool cyan","pastel","pastel cyan","Celeste adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/b2ffff.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/celeste.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/duck-egg-blue.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/pale-turquoise.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#FFB3B3","analogous":["#B3FFD9","#B3D9FF"],"triadic":["#FFB3FF","#FFFFB3"],"tetradic":["#D9B3FF","#FFB3B3","#D9FFB3"],"splitComplementary":["#FFB3D9","#FFD9B3"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#B2FFFF","#57FFFF"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#57FFFF","saturated":"#B3FFFF","desaturated":"#BBF7F7","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#DBFFFF"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"celeste","name":"Celeste","hex":"#B2FFFF","distance":0},{"slug":"duck-egg-blue","name":"Duck Egg Blue","hex":"#C3FBF4","distance":20.639767440550294},{"slug":"pale-turquoise","name":"Pale Turquoise","hex":"#AFEEEE","distance":24.228082879171435},{"slug":"arctic-blue","name":"Arctic Blue","hex":"#C6E6FB","distance":32.264531609803356},{"slug":"ice-blue","name":"Ice Blue","hex":"#D6F5FF","distance":37.36308338453881}]

#B2FFFF

CSS

About #B2FFFF

WCAG Accessibility

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Accessible Alternatives

Generated Palette

Color Harmonies

Variants

Nearest Named Colors

Machine-Readable HEX Data (JSON)

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