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Pictured: Beau blue, the closest color we have a photo of (#BCD4E6)
rgb(203, 227, 238)
#CBE3EE

Niagara Falls #CBE3EE RGB Color Code

Name from the community color list.

Niagara Falls (#CBE3EE) is a neutral white. In RGB it is made of 80% red, 89% green and 93% blue (R 203, G 227, B 238). The blue channel is the strongest. In HSL it has a hue of 199°, 51% saturation and 86% lightness. Its relative luminance is 0.738, so black text is easier to read on top of it. For print, a rough CMYK match is 15% cyan, 5% magenta, 0% yellow and 7% black. Check it against your printer's ICC profile before you print. It is a neutral color. It goes well with warm oranges and reds for contrast. For a calm, matching look, use nearby cool tones.

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Niagara Falls color codes

#CBE3EE in every common color format. Click a value to copy it.

FormatValueNotesCopy
HEX #CBE3EE Valid CSS
RGB rgb(203, 227, 238) Valid CSS
HSL hsl(199, 51%, 86%) Valid CSS
HSV / HSB hsv(199, 15%, 93%) Not a CSS format
HWB hwb(199 80% 7%) Valid CSS
CMYK cmyk(15%, 5%, 0%, 7%) Approximate (no ICC profile)
OKLCH oklch(90.15% 0.0296 227.03) Valid CSS
OKLab oklab(90.15% -0.0202 -0.0217) Valid CSS
CIELAB lab(88.7% -6.57 -8.22) D50, as in CSS
CIELCH lch(88.7% 10.52 231.35) Valid CSS
Display P3 color(display-p3 0.8138 0.8873 0.9282) Valid CSS
XYZ (D65) color(xyz-d65 0.6753 0.7381 0.9158) Valid CSS
Decimal 13362158 Integer (0xRRGGBB)

CMYK here is a rough screen match without an ICC profile. See CMYK and print. Relative luminance: 0.7381. Nearest web-safe color: #CCCCFF.

Mix Niagara Falls with other colors

See what #CBE3EE 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.

Use Niagara Falls 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--niagara-falls: #CBE3EE;
Sass variable$niagara-falls: #CBE3EE;
Tailwind CSS v4@theme { --color-niagara-falls: #CBE3EE; }
Tailwind CSS v3 configcolors: { 'niagara-falls': '#CBE3EE' }
SwiftUIColor(red: 0.796, green: 0.89, blue: 0.933)
UIKitUIColor(red: 0.796, green: 0.89, blue: 0.933, alpha: 1)
Android XML<color name="niagara_falls">#FFCBE3EE</color>
Flutter and Jetpack ComposeColor(0xFFCBE3EE)

Accessibility and contrast

Black text works best on #CBE3EE (15.76:1, AAA). Here is how #CBE3EE does as a text color:

Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1.33:1 on white
APCA Lc 16
Fails AATry #647A84
Large heading text
Body text at 16px. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
15.76:1 on black
APCA Lc -87
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 Niagara Falls

#CBE3EE 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

#CBE3EE has almost no hue, so it looks much the same with every type of color blindness. Only its lightness counts. Try your own colors in the color blindness simulator.

Niagara Falls in a user interface

A sample app screen with #CBE3EE as the main color, on a light and a dark theme.

Light theme

Dark theme

Buttons and bars use #CBE3EE as it is. On the light theme, #CBE3EE is too hard to read as text (1.33:1), so links, the badge and outline text use #647A84 there (4.51:1). Build a full color scheme around it in the UI color preview.

Color harmonies for Niagara Falls

These schemes turn the hue of #CBE3EE 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

Analogous

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

Open palette

Triadic

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

Open palette

Split complementary

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

Open palette

Tetradic (rectangle)

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

Open palette

Square

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

Open palette

Monochromatic

One hue at different levels of lightness and saturation.

Open palette

Gradients with Niagara Falls

Four CSS gradients made from #CBE3EE. 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, #F5F9FC, #CBE3EE);

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Deep shade

The color fading into a dark shade.

background: linear-gradient(180deg, #CBE3EE, #373F42);

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Analogous

Its two neighbors on the color wheel.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CBEEE8, #CBE3EE, #CBD2EE);

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Triadic

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #CBE3EE, #DED7E8, #EECBE3);

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Shades, tints and tones of Niagara Falls

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)

Niagara Falls sits at step 200. Export the full scale as CSS variables or Tailwind tokens from the picker.

  1. 50
    F0F8FC
  2. 100
    E4EFF4
  3. 200
    CBE3EE
  4. 300
    B1C4CD
  5. 400
    91A7B1
  6. 500
    748A94
  7. 600
    5A7079
  8. 700
    465961
  9. 800
    35454C
  10. 900
    273238
  11. 950
    181E21

Closest RAL, Tailwind and CSS colors

The nearest match to #CBE3EE in three color systems that designers and builders use.

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 white or search the color library.