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Jade Veil Muted
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Jade Veil Muted

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 18% · L 98%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1:1Failon black20.2:1AA
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About this color

Jade Veil Muted (#F9FBFA) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 18% saturation, 98% 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-veil-muted: #F9FBFA;
  --colorarchive-jade-veil-muted-hsl: hsl(150, 18%, 98%);
  --colorarchive-jade-veil-muted-rgb: rgb(249, 251, 250);
}

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 #F9FBFA.

  • Vercelneutral
    Gray 1 · #FAFAFA
    →
  • OpenAIneutral
    Off White · #FAFAFA
    →
  • Lululemonneutral
    Site Off-White · #F9F9F8
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #F9FBFA.

  • Korea (Obangsaek)Obangsaek White (백 / baek)
    #F5F5F2 · West — metal element, hemp linen
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Limewashed White
    #F8F4EE · Calcium hydroxide on stone
    →
  • ScandinaviaSnow White
    #F4F0EA · Limewashed plaster, Nordic interiors
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal and color in design.

Color TheoryColor in Healthcare Design: Building Palettes That HealUI DesignColor in Video Streaming Interfaces: Dark-First, Thumbnails, and HierarchyColor TheoryHow to Name Colors in Design Systems: Poetic, Semantic, and Token Names

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.

Darker companion
Jade Whisper Muted
#EDF2F0 · hsl(150, 18%, 94%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Veil Muted
#FBF9FA · hsl(330, 18%, 98%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Veil Muted
#F9FBFB · hsl(175, 18%, 98%)
Analogous echo
Mint Veil Muted
#F9FBF9 · hsl(130, 18%, 98%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Veil Muted
#FAF9FB · hsl(270, 18%, 98%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Veil Muted
#FBFAF9 · hsl(30, 18%, 98%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Veil Muted
#FBF9FB · hsl(300, 18%, 98%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Veil Muted
#FBF9F9 · hsl(0, 18%, 98%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Veil Muted #F9FBFA
Darker companion: Jade Whisper Muted #EDF2F0
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Veil Muted #FBF9FA
Analogous lead: Cyan Veil Muted #F9FBFB
Analogous echo: Mint Veil Muted #F9FBF9
Triadic +120°: Plum Veil Muted #FAF9FB
Triadic +240°: Coral Veil Muted #FBFAF9
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Veil Muted #FBF9FB
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Veil Muted #FBF9F9

Compare

See how Jade Veil Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Whisper MutedvsBlush Veil MutedvsCyan Veil MutedvsMint Veil MutedvsPlum Veil MutedvsCoral Veil Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Whisper Muted
#EDF2F0 · hsl(150, 18%, 94%)
Nearby match
Jade Veil Faint
#F9FAFA · hsl(150, 10%, 98%)
Nearby match
Jade Veil Dust
#F9FBFA · hsl(150, 26%, 98%)
Nearby match
Celadon Veil Muted
#F9FBFA · hsl(145, 18%, 98%)
Nearby match
Sage Gray Veil
#FAFAFA · hsl(150, 5%, 98%)
Nearby match
Jade Mist Muted
#E1EAE6 · hsl(150, 18%, 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
AAA7.4:1
Blush Dusk Faint
#5F4E57
AAA7.8:1
Blush Dusk Muted
#664757
AAA8:1
Blush Dusk Dust
#6D4057
AAA8.2:1
Blush Dusk Soft
#743957
AAA8.2:1
Blush Dusk Clear
#862857
AAA7.8:1
Blush Dusk Vivid
#971757

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#FAFAFA
Protanopia
#FAFAFA
Tritanopia
#F9FAFA
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Sage Gray Veil#FAFAFA · hsl(150, 5%, 98%)Jade Veil Faint#F9FAFA · hsl(150, 10%, 98%)Jade Veil Muted#F9FBFA · hsl(150, 18%, 98%)Jade Veil Dust#F9FBFA · hsl(150, 26%, 98%)Jade Veil Soft#F8FCFA · hsl(150, 34%, 98%)Jade Veil Clear#F7FDFA · hsl(150, 54%, 98%)Jade Veil Vivid#F6FEFA · hsl(150, 74%, 98%)Jade Veil Bright#F6FEFA · hsl(150, 84%, 98%)Jade Veil Pure#F5FFFA · hsl(150, 92%, 98%)
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