CSS named colour

Light Cyan

#e0ffff

A CSS named colour: lightcyan is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB
rgb(224 255 255)
HSL
180°, 100%, 94%
OKLCh
97.8% 0.032 196.6

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Light Cyan in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex#e0ffff
RGBrgb(224 255 255)
RGB legacyrgb(224, 255, 255)
RGB percentrgb(87.84% 100% 100%)
HSLhsl(180 100% 93.9%)
HSL legacyhsl(180, 100%, 93.9%)
HSV / HSBhsv(180, 12.2%, 100%)
HWBhwb(180 87.8% 0%)
Nearest namelightcyan
CMYKcmyk(12.2%, 0%, 0%, 0%)Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLChoklch(97.786% 0.03203 196.64)Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLaboklab(97.786% -0.03069 -0.00917)
CIE LChlch(97.767% 10.947 198.995)
CIE Lablab(97.767% -10.351 -3.563)
Display P3color(display-p3 0.9016 0.9963 0.9981)
Rec. 2020color(rec2020 0.9172 0.9913 0.9979)
srgb-linearcolor(srgb-linear 0.7454 1 1)Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)color(xyz-d65 0.8455 0.9459 1.0841)

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGBvec3(0.878, 1.0, 1.0)Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linearvec3(0.745, 1.0, 1.0)Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGBvec4(0.878, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
GLSL vec4 — linearvec4(0.745, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
GLSL ivec3ivec3(224, 255, 255)
HLSL float3 — sRGBfloat3(0.878, 1.0, 1.0)
HLSL float3 — linearfloat3(0.745, 1.0, 1.0)
HLSL float4 — sRGBfloat4(0.878, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
HLSL half4 — sRGBhalf4(0.878, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
WGSL vec3f — sRGBvec3f(0.878, 1.0, 1.0)
WGSL vec4f — sRGBvec4f(0.878, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
WGSL vec3<f32> — linearvec3<f32>(0.745, 1.0, 1.0)

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Colornew Color(0.878f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f)Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32new Color32(224, 255, 255, 255)
Unreal FLinearColorFLinearColor(0.7454f, 1.0f, 1.0f, 1.0f)FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColorFColor(224, 255, 255, 255)Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot ColorColor(0.878, 1, 1, 1)
Flutter ColorColor(0xFFE0FFFF)Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android ColorColor.rgb(224, 255, 255)
SwiftUI ColorColor(red: 0.878, green: 1, blue: 1)
UIKit UIColorUIColor(red: 0.878, green: 1, blue: 1, alpha: 1)

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex0xE0FFFF
0x hex (ARGB)0xFFE0FFFF
Array 0–1[0.878, 1, 1]
Array 0–255[224, 255, 255]
Decimal integer14745599

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

PairingWCAG 2 ratioLevelAPCASuitable for
Light Cyan on white1.05:1FailLc 0Not usable for text
Light Cyan on black19.92:1AAALc 104Body text at any size

Light Cyan text on a white background

Light Cyan text on a black background

White text on Light Cyan

Black text on Light Cyan

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

  • 50#e6fdfd
  • 100#dbf3f3
  • 200#c9e2e2
  • 300#b1cccc
  • 400#94b0b0
  • 500#759292
  • 600#5d7878
  • 700#486060
  • 800#364c4d
  • 900#283c3c
  • 950#132223

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

  • Tint 1#e5ffff
  • Tint 2#ebffff
  • Tint 3#f0ffff
  • Tint 4#f5ffff
  • Tint 5#faffff
  • Shade 1#afc8c8
  • Shade 2#819494
  • Shade 3#566363
  • Shade 4#2e3636
  • Shade 5#0b0f0f

Colours that work with Light Cyan

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

  • #fff0f0
  • #fff2ff
  • #fff5e0
  • #e4fff3
  • #e2fdff

Closest CSS names

  • lightcyanexact match
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  • honeydewΔEok 0.026
  • whitesmokeΔEok 0.033