HEX atlas value

#C3FBF4

#C3FBF4 is a cool cyan HEX color nearest Duck Egg Blue. RGB 195, 251, 244, HSL 173° 88% 87%, luminance 0.8713; view contrast and conversions.

cyan cool light pastel

#C3FBF4 Sample readable text

HEX #C3FBF4

RGB rgb(195, 251, 244)

HSL hsl(173 88% 87%)

CMYK cmyk(22, 0, 3, 2)

Luminance 0.8713

Contrast Black 18.43:1White 1.14:1

CSS

--color-c3fbf4: #C3FBF4;
.background-c3fbf4 { background-color: #C3FBF4; }
.text-c3fbf4 { color: #C3FBF4; }

HEX meaning and use

About #C3FBF4

#C3FBF4 is classified as a cool cyan value with light and pastel visual character. #C3FBF4 is visually closest to Duck Egg Blue, a named cyan color with HEX #C3FBF4.

The RGB channels are 195, 251, and 244, with green carrying the strongest channel weight. In HSL, the hue is 173deg with 88% saturation and 87% 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 0.8713, 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 text18.43:1AA Pass

White text1.14:1AA Fail

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

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

Accessibility-Safe Pairings and Alternatives

Use these pairings when #C3FBF4 needs readable text, badges, interface states, or nearby accessible alternatives.

Black text#00000018.43:1 · AAA

White text#FFFFFF1.14:1 · Fail

Accessible Alternatives

White#FFFFFF · #000000 text · best 21:1 #BDFFF7#BDFFF7 · #000000 text · best 18.81:1 Celeste#B2FFFF · #000000 text · best 18.64:1 Ice Blue#D6F5FF · #000000 text · best 18.36:1 #C1FBD7#C1FBD7 · #000000 text · best 18.05:1

Generated Palette

Duck Egg Blue#C3FBF4

#FBC1C7#FBC1C7

#C1FBD7#C1FBD7

#C1E5FB#C1E5FB

White#FFFFFF

#6AF6E5#6AF6E5

Color Harmonies

#FBC1C7#FBC1C7

#C1FBD7#C1FBD7

#C1E5FB#C1E5FB

#F4C1FB#F4C1FB

#FBF4C1#FBF4C1

Variants

White#FFFFFF

#6AF6E5#6AF6E5

#BDFFF7#BDFFF7

#C8F4EF#C8F4EF

White#FFFFFF

#E5FFFC#E5FFFC

Nearest Named Colors

Duck Egg Blue#C3FBF4

Celeste#B2FFFF

Arctic Blue#C6E6FB

Ice Blue#D6F5FF

Pale Turquoise#AFEEEE

Luminance0.8713

Black text18.43:1AA Pass

White text1.14:1AA 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":"#C3FBF4","rgb":[195,251,244],"hsl":[173,88,87],"cmyk":[22,0,3,2],"luminance":0.8713,"contrast":{"black":18.43,"white":1.14}}

WCAG

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

Safe pairings

[{"name":"Black text","hex":"#000000","contrast":18.43,"wcagAA":true,"wcagAAA":true},{"name":"White text","hex":"#FFFFFF","contrast":1.14,"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":"#BDFFF7","hex":"#BDFFF7","family":"cyan","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.81,"contrastWhite":1.12,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]},{"name":"Celeste","hex":"#B2FFFF","family":"cyan","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.64,"contrastWhite":1.13,"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":"#C1FBD7","hex":"#C1FBD7","family":"green","bestTextColor":"#000000","contrastBlack":18.05,"contrastWhite":1.16,"wcagAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"wcagAAA":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"]}]

AI context

{"semanticGroups":["cool cyan","light","pastel","light cyan","pastel cyan","Duck Egg Blue adjacent"],"useCases":["color conversion","WCAG contrast checks","CSS color tokens","soft UI backgrounds","light surfaces"],"contrastSafeWith":["#000000","#1A1A1A","#36454F"],"relatedEndpoints":["https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex/c3fbf4.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/hex.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/duck-egg-blue.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/celeste.json","https://www.colorsencyclopedia.com/api/colors/arctic-blue.json"]}

Harmonies

{"complementary":"#FBC1C7","analogous":["#C1FBD7","#C1E5FB"],"triadic":["#F4C1FB","#FBF4C1"],"tetradic":["#D7C1FB","#FBC1C7","#E5FBC1"],"splitComplementary":["#FBC1E5","#FBD7C1"],"monochromatic":["#FFFFFF","#C3FBF4","#6AF6E5"]}

Variants

{"light":"#FFFFFF","dark":"#6AF6E5","saturated":"#BDFFF7","desaturated":"#C8F4EF","pastel":"#FFFFFF","neon":"#E5FFFC"}

Nearest named colors

[{"slug":"duck-egg-blue","name":"Duck Egg Blue","hex":"#C3FBF4","distance":0},{"slug":"celeste","name":"Celeste","hex":"#B2FFFF","distance":20.639767440550294},{"slug":"arctic-blue","name":"Arctic Blue","hex":"#C6E6FB","distance":22.338307903688676},{"slug":"ice-blue","name":"Ice Blue","hex":"#D6F5FF","distance":22.759613353482084},{"slug":"pale-turquoise","name":"Pale Turquoise","hex":"#AFEEEE","distance":24.596747752497688}]

#C3FBF4

CSS

About #C3FBF4

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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