We're live on Product Hunt!Support us
ColorArchive

A curated color library with 5,446 algorithmically generated colors. Browse, search, save favorites, and export palette tokens — no account required.

CollectionsFamiliesBrandsRegionsJournalNotesGuidesFree ResourcesEmbed widgetConvertColorblindAboutSupportUpdatesiOS app
Ready for static export
Privacy·Terms·Refunds·Cookies·Commerce Disclosure
colorarchive.org · © 2026 ColorArchive
Skip to content
ColorArchive
ProLog in
ArchiveAll ColorsCollections
Jade Pearl Dust
Color detail

Jade Pearl Dust

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 26% · L 84%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.4:1Failon black15.3:1AA
Save to journalSign in to saveStart palette from thisRecent trail

About this color

Jade Pearl Dust (#CCE1D6) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 26% saturation, 84% 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-jade-pearl-dust: #CCE1D6;
  --colorarchive-jade-pearl-dust-hsl: hsl(150, 26%, 84%);
  --colorarchive-jade-pearl-dust-rgb: rgb(204, 225, 214);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

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 pale, gentle tone — pastel territory, where the hue acts more like a tinted neutral than a stated color.

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 low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #CCE1D6.

  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Anthropicneutral
    Light Gray · #E8E6DC
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #CCE1D6.

  • France (Paris)Lutetian Limestone
    #E5DDC8 · Paris facade stone (Haussmannian-era buildings)
    →
  • IcelandLopapeysa Cream
    #E8DFCC · Undyed Icelandic sheep wool
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Hanji Cream
    #EAE0CB · Mulberry-fiber Korean paper
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal and color in design.

Design SystemsHow to Build a Color Token System: The Complete Designer's GuideColor SystemsColor Accessibility in 2025: WCAG 2.1, APCA, and the Dual-Standard AuditColor PsychologyColor and E-Commerce Conversion: Evidence-Based Design Decisions

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
Jade Mist Dust
#DFECE6 · hsl(150, 26%, 90%)
Darker companion
Jade Bloom Dust
#B2D2C2 · hsl(150, 26%, 76%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Pearl Dust
#E1CCD6 · hsl(330, 26%, 84%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Pearl Dust
#CCE1DF · hsl(175, 26%, 84%)
Analogous echo
Mint Pearl Dust
#CCE1CF · hsl(130, 26%, 84%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Pearl Dust
#D6CCE1 · hsl(270, 26%, 84%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Pearl Dust
#E1D6CC · hsl(30, 26%, 84%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Pearl Dust
#E1CCE1 · hsl(300, 26%, 84%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Pearl Dust
#E1CCCC · hsl(0, 26%, 84%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Pearl Dust #CCE1D6
Lighter companion: Jade Mist Dust #DFECE6
Darker companion: Jade Bloom Dust #B2D2C2
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Pearl Dust #E1CCD6
Analogous lead: Cyan Pearl Dust #CCE1DF
Analogous echo: Mint Pearl Dust #CCE1CF
Triadic +120°: Plum Pearl Dust #D6CCE1
Triadic +240°: Coral Pearl Dust #E1D6CC
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Pearl Dust #E1CCE1
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Pearl Dust #E1CCCC

Compare

See how Jade Pearl Dust compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Mist DustvsJade Bloom DustvsBlush Pearl DustvsCyan Pearl DustvsMint Pearl DustvsPlum Pearl Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

Search by hex
Nearby match
Jade Pearl Muted
#CFDED6 · hsl(150, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Pearl Soft
#C8E4D6 · hsl(150, 34%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Mist Dust
#DFECE6 · hsl(150, 26%, 90%)
Nearby match
Celadon Pearl Dust
#CCE1D4 · hsl(145, 26%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Bloom Dust
#B2D2C2 · hsl(150, 26%, 76%)
Nearby match
Jade Pearl Faint
#D2DAD6 · hsl(150, 10%, 84%)

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
Blush Shadow Faint
#4F4047
AAA7.3:1
Blush Shadow Muted
#543B47
AAA7.5:1
Blush Shadow Dust
#5A3547
AAA7.7:1
Blush Shadow Soft
#602F47
AAA7.8:1
Blush Shadow Clear
#6E2147
AAA7.5:1
Blush Shadow Vivid
#7C1347

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#D4D3D9
Protanopia
#D5D6D9
Tritanopia
#CDDBDB
Color of the Day

Like Jade Pearl Dust? Get one like it every morning.

One hand-picked color a day — with its hex, family, and the story behind it.

Get a color every morning

One email per day. Unsubscribe anytime.

Ready to build

Turn these colors into design tokens

Copy the CSS variables and the Tailwind class free, right here. ColorArchive Pro lifts the daily export limit — 10 a day signed in, 3 without an account.

Upgrade to ProFree downloadView collections

Saturation ladder

Same hue and lightness, from gray to pure

Search
Sage Gray Pearl#D4D8D6 · hsl(150, 5%, 84%)Jade Pearl Faint#D2DAD6 · hsl(150, 10%, 84%)Jade Pearl Muted#CFDED6 · hsl(150, 18%, 84%)Jade Pearl Dust#CCE1D6 · hsl(150, 26%, 84%)Jade Pearl Soft#C8E4D6 · hsl(150, 34%, 84%)Jade Pearl Clear#C0ECD6 · hsl(150, 54%, 84%)Jade Pearl Vivid#B8F4D6 · hsl(150, 74%, 84%)Jade Pearl Bright#B4F8D6 · hsl(150, 84%, 84%)Jade Pearl Pure#B1FCD6 · hsl(150, 92%, 84%)
More from Teal →