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Pictured: Baby blue eyes
rgb(161, 202, 241)
#A1CAF1

Baby Blue Eyes #A1CAF1 RGB Color Code

Baby Blue Eyes (#A1CAF1) is a muted, light blue. In RGB it is made of 63% red, 79% green and 95% blue (R 161, G 202, B 241). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 209°, 74% saturation and 79% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.562, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 33% cyan, 16% magenta, 0% yellow and 5% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a cool color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Baby Blue Eyes color codes

#A1CAF1 in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #A1CAF1 Valid CSS
RGB rgb(161, 202, 241) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(209, 74%, 79%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(209, 33%, 95%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(209 63% 5%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(33%, 16%, 0%, 5%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(82.31% 0.0703 247.4) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(82.31% -0.027 -0.0649) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(79.39% -7.13 -24.01) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(79.39% 25.04 253.45) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.6637 0.7875 0.9308) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.5169 0.5617 0.9134) Valid CSS
Decimal 10603249 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.5617. Nearest web-safe color: #99CCFF.

Mix Baby Blue Eyes with other colors

See what #A1CAF1 makes with red paint, under a green light, printed with cyan ink and in a digital blend with blue. Click a picture to change the colors and amounts in the color mixer.

PaintBaby Blue Eyes and red paintOpen in the color mixer
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DigitalBaby Blue Eyes blended with blueOpen in the color mixer

Use Baby Blue Eyes in your code

Ready to paste into CSS, Sass, Tailwind, iOS, Android and Flutter. Click the icon to copy a line.

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CSS variable--baby-blue-eyes: #A1CAF1;
Sass variable$baby-blue-eyes: #A1CAF1;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-baby-blue-eyes: #A1CAF1; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'baby-blue-eyes': '#A1CAF1' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.631, green: 0.792, blue: 0.945)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.631, green: 0.792, blue: 0.945, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="baby_blue_eyes">#FFA1CAF1</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFA1CAF1)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #A1CAF1 (12.23:1, AAA). Here is how #A1CAF1 does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.72:1 on white
APCA Lc 31
Fails AATry #547A9E
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
12.23:1 on black
APCA Lc -72
AAA

Check this color against any background in the contrast checker. WCAG ratios and APCA Lc values measure different things, so one can't stand in for the other. Learn more.

How people with color blindness see Baby Blue Eyes

#A1CAF1 next to its complement and its two triadic colors, as seen with each type of color blindness.

  • Normal visionhow most people see it
  • Protanopiano red cones, about 1% of men
  • Deuteranopiano green cones, the most common type
  • Tritanopiano blue cones, very rare
  • Achromatopsiano color at all, very rare

With deuteranopia, #A1CAF1 and #F1A1CA look much alike. Don't use these colors alone to tell things apart, for example in a chart. Add labels, patterns or a difference in lightness. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

About the color Baby Blue Eyes

A card from 1948

Baby blue eyes, #A1CAF1, comes from the Plochere Color System, a set of color cards from 1948 that interior designers used. The Wikipedia article on baby blue lists it as a tone of that color, and the ISCC-NBS system calls it very light blue. Beyond that card, the name has no known history as a color.

Its hue leans a little more toward pure blue than baby blue, and it is darker than beau blue from the same card set. A wildflower from California and Oregon, Nemophila menziesii, has the same common name for its blue petals with white centers. Black text on this color scores 12.23 to 1.

Baby Blue Eyes in a user interface

A sample app screen with #A1CAF1 as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #A1CAF1 as it is. On the light theme, #A1CAF1 is too hard to read as text (1.72:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #547A9E there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Baby Blue Eyes

These schemes turn the hue of #A1CAF1 around the color wheel. Each swatch links to its own page.

Complementary

Two colors on opposite sides of the wheel. This gives the most contrast.

Open palette
this#A1CAF1#F1C8A1

Analogous

Hues that sit next to each other and look good together.

Open palette
#A1F1F0this#A1CAF1#A1A2F1

Triadic

Three hues spaced evenly around the wheel. Bold, but still balanced.

Open palette
this#A1CAF1#F1A1CA#CAF1A1

Split complementary

A base color plus the two hues on each side of its opposite. Strong contrast that clashes less.

Open palette
this#A1CAF1#F1A1A2#F1F0A1

Tetradic (rectangle)

Two pairs of opposite colors. Let one color lead and use the others less.

Open palette
this#A1CAF1#C8A1F1#F1C8A1#CAF1A1

Square

Four hues 90° apart, spread evenly around the wheel.

Open palette
this#A1CAF1#F0A1F1#F1C8A1#A2F1A1

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette
#0D3459#185EA1#2C88E0#74B1EA#BCD9F5

Gradients with Baby Blue Eyes

Four CSS gradients made from #A1CAF1. Copy the code, or open one in the gradient generator to change it.

Soft tint

From a pale tint to the full color.

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #ECF4FD, #A1CAF1);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #A1CAF1, #2A3743);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A1F1F0, #A1CAF1, #A1A2F1);

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Triadic

A bold blend with a triadic color, through a clean middle.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #A1CAF1, #CEB7DE, #F1A1CA);

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Shades, tints and tones of Baby Blue Eyes

Shades are darker, tints are lighter and tones are grayer. We make them in OKLCH so the steps look even. Hover a step to see its code, or click it to open it.

Design system scale (50 to 950)

Baby Blue Eyes sits at step 300. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F0F8FF
  2. 100
    DFEFFF
  3. 200
    C4DEF7
  4. 300
    A1CAF1
  5. 400
    82A7CB
  6. 500
    648AAF
  7. 600
    4A7092
  8. 700
    375877
  9. 800
    29455F
  10. 900
    1D3246
  11. 950
    131E29

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #A1CAF1 in three color systems that designers and builders use.

RAL ClassicRAL 7035 Light grey#CBD0CC, close (ΔE 7.7)Tailwind CSSblue-300 #93C5FD, very close (ΔE 3.0)CSS color nameslightskyblue #87CEFA, very close (ΔE 2.9)

ΔE is the distance in OKLab: under 2 is hard to see, over 10 is a clearly different color. Browse all RAL colors, the Tailwind palette or the 148 CSS color names. RAL values on screens are only a guide, so check a real color chart before you order paint.

The named colors that look closest to this one (ΔE in OKLab). Browse all shades of blue or search the color library.