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Aqua Mist Clear
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Aqua Mist Clear

Teal · Hue 180
Metrics
S 54% · L 90%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.2:1Failon black18:1AA
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About this color

Aqua Mist Clear (#D8F3F3) belongs to the teal family — hue 180°, 54% saturation, 90% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-aqua-mist-clear: #D8F3F3;
  --colorarchive-aqua-mist-clear-hsl: hsl(180, 54%, 90%);
  --colorarchive-aqua-mist-clear-rgb: rgb(216, 243, 243);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

RefreshingModernClear
Common in

SaaS · Cloud Services · Interior Design

Pairs well with

Coral for playful energy, light gray for modern minimalism

Design tip

Ideal for tech product interfaces. Light teal works as a primary brand color that feels both professional and approachable.

Cultural context ▶

Light teal blends the calm of blue with the renewal of green. Associated with clear water, clarity, and modern thinking.

Color Origins

Teal family

The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.

Heritage

Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, which has a stripe of this color on its head. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both copper-based pigments, flank this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) sits here too; on the statue it is mostly basic copper sulfate. Phthalo turquoise is a 20th-century pigment.

Across cultures

In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.

In the wild

Surgical scrubs are often green or teal, a choice usually explained by afterimages — staring at red tissue leaves green ghosts on white surfaces, which blend into blue-green cloth. Tiffany Blue, a robin's-egg blue-green, was trademarked in 1998 and later standardized with Pantone as '1837 Blue', after the company's founding year.

How it reads

Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).

This particular tone

A bright, airy reading of the hue — clean and approachable, the kind of color that holds up well in product photography and on light backgrounds.

Lightness band: At this lightness the hue almost recedes into the surface around it — useful for backgrounds, hover states, and any surface where the color should suggest a mood without competing with content.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is a common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #D8F3F3.

  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Anthropicbackground
    Cream Canvas · #F0EEE6
    →
  • Lululemonneutral
    Off White · #F5F5F5
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #D8F3F3.

  • AustraliaBeach Cream
    #F2EFE1 · Western Australian quartz sand
    →
  • ScandinaviaSnow White
    #F4F0EA · Limewashed plaster, Nordic interiors
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Marble White
    #F0EBE0 · Marmara marble, used since Roman era
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal and color in design.

AccessibilityColor Contrast Checker: Understanding WCAG Requirements and How to Apply ThemColor TheoryDark Color Palette Guide: Building Low-Luminance Palettes That WorkBrand & MarketingLuxury Neutral Color Palette Ideas Without Defaulting to Black and White

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Aqua Whisper Clear
#E7F8F8 · hsl(180, 54%, 94%)
Darker companion
Aqua Pearl Clear
#C0ECEC · hsl(180, 54%, 84%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Mist Clear
#F3D8D8 · hsl(0, 54%, 90%)
Analogous lead
Steel Mist Clear
#D8E8F3 · hsl(205, 54%, 90%)
Analogous echo
Teal Mist Clear
#D8F3EA · hsl(160, 54%, 90%)
Triadic +120°
Fuchsia Mist Clear
#F3D8F3 · hsl(300, 54%, 90%)
Triadic +240°
Citrine Mist Clear
#F3F3D8 · hsl(60, 54%, 90%)
Split-comp +150°
Blush Mist Clear
#F3D8E6 · hsl(330, 54%, 90%)
Split-comp +210°
Coral Mist Clear
#F3E6D8 · hsl(30, 54%, 90%)
Export preview
Base: Aqua Mist Clear #D8F3F3
Lighter companion: Aqua Whisper Clear #E7F8F8
Darker companion: Aqua Pearl Clear #C0ECEC
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Mist Clear #F3D8D8
Analogous lead: Steel Mist Clear #D8E8F3
Analogous echo: Teal Mist Clear #D8F3EA
Triadic +120°: Fuchsia Mist Clear #F3D8F3
Triadic +240°: Citrine Mist Clear #F3F3D8
Split-comp +150°: Blush Mist Clear #F3D8E6
Split-comp +210°: Coral Mist Clear #F3E6D8

Compare

See how Aqua Mist Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsAqua Whisper ClearvsAqua Pearl ClearvsCrimson Mist ClearvsSteel Mist ClearvsTeal Mist ClearvsFuchsia Mist Clear

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Aqua Whisper Clear
#E7F8F8 · hsl(180, 54%, 94%)
Nearby match
Aqua Pearl Clear
#C0ECEC · hsl(180, 54%, 84%)
Nearby match
Cyan Mist Clear
#D8F3F1 · hsl(175, 54%, 90%)
Nearby match
Aqua Veil Clear
#F7FDFD · hsl(180, 54%, 98%)
Nearby match
Cyan Whisper Clear
#E7F8F7 · hsl(175, 54%, 94%)
Nearby match
Aqua Mist Soft
#DDEEEE · hsl(180, 34%, 90%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AAA7.1:1
Crimson Dusk Muted
#664747
AAA7.3:1
Crimson Dusk Dust
#6D4040
AAA7.6:1
Crimson Dusk Soft
#743939
AAA7.7:1
Crimson Dusk Clear
#862828
AAA7.4:1
Crimson Dusk Vivid
#971717
AAA7:1
Crimson Dusk Bright
#A00E0E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#E3E1F3
Protanopia
#E4E4F3
Tritanopia
#D9F3F3
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Aqua Mist Faint#E3E8E8 · hsl(180, 10%, 90%)Aqua Mist Muted#E1EAEA · hsl(180, 18%, 90%)Aqua Mist Dust#DFECEC · hsl(180, 26%, 90%)Aqua Mist Soft#DDEEEE · hsl(180, 34%, 90%)Aqua Mist Clear#D8F3F3 · hsl(180, 54%, 90%)Aqua Mist Vivid#D3F8F8 · hsl(180, 74%, 90%)Aqua Mist Bright#D0FBFB · hsl(180, 84%, 90%)Aqua Mist Pure#CEFDFD · hsl(180, 92%, 90%)
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