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Jade Pearl Soft
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Jade Pearl Soft

Teal · Hue 150
Hex
#C8E4D6
RGB
rgb(200, 228, 214)
HSL
hsl(150, 34%, 84%)
CMYK
cmyk(12%, 0%, 6%, 11%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 84%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.4:1Fail
on black
15.5:1AA
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About this color

Jade Pearl Soft (#C8E4D6) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 34% 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-soft: #C8E4D6;
  --colorarchive-jade-pearl-soft-hsl: hsl(150, 34%, 84%);
  --colorarchive-jade-pearl-soft-rgb: rgb(200, 228, 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, whose wing patches sit at exactly this hue. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both made from copper-calcium silicate around 2,500 BCE, sit in this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) is teal because copper carbonate forms there; Bacon's verdigris is the same chemistry. Phthalo turquoise and cobalt teal are 20th-century pigments.

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

Hospital scrubs are teal because it's the perceptual complement of red blood — staring at red and then looking away produces a green-teal afterimage, and matching the scrubs to that afterimage reduces eye fatigue. Tiffany's blue is a calibrated teal, trademarked as PMS 1837 (their founding year). Most Pixar films grade their shadows toward teal because warm skin against cool shadow is the most legible cinematographic combination. The Apple Watch SE, the Surface Pro, and the new Macs all use teal as a 'calming-but-modern' accent.

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; it's the dominant accent color in healthcare and trust-led fintech for that reason. 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 the most 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 #C8E4D6.

  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →
  • Anthropicprimary
    Cream Canvas · #F0EEE6
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #C8E4D6.

  • 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
    →

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 Soft
#DDEEE6 · hsl(150, 34%, 90%)
Darker companion
Jade Bloom Soft
#ADD7C2 · hsl(150, 34%, 76%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Pearl Soft
#E4C8D6 · hsl(330, 34%, 84%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Pearl Soft
#C8E4E2 · hsl(175, 34%, 84%)
Analogous echo
Mint Pearl Soft
#C8E4CD · hsl(130, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Pearl Soft
#D6C8E4 · hsl(270, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Pearl Soft
#E4D6C8 · hsl(30, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Pearl Soft
#E4C8E4 · hsl(300, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Pearl Soft
#E4C8C8 · hsl(0, 34%, 84%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Pearl Soft #C8E4D6
Lighter companion: Jade Mist Soft #DDEEE6
Darker companion: Jade Bloom Soft #ADD7C2
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Pearl Soft #E4C8D6
Analogous lead: Cyan Pearl Soft #C8E4E2
Analogous echo: Mint Pearl Soft #C8E4CD
Triadic +120°: Plum Pearl Soft #D6C8E4
Triadic +240°: Coral Pearl Soft #E4D6C8
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Pearl Soft #E4C8E4
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Pearl Soft #E4C8C8

Compare

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

vsJade Mist SoftvsJade Bloom SoftvsBlush Pearl SoftvsCyan Pearl SoftvsMint Pearl SoftvsPlum Pearl Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Pearl Dust
#CCE1D6 · hsl(150, 26%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Mist Soft
#DDEEE6 · hsl(150, 34%, 90%)
Nearby match
Celadon Pearl Soft
#C8E4D4 · hsl(145, 34%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Bloom Soft
#ADD7C2 · hsl(150, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Jade Pearl Muted
#CFDED6 · hsl(150, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Jade Whisper Soft
#EAF5F0 · hsl(150, 34%, 94%)

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
AAA7.2:1
Blush Shadow Faint
#4F4047
AAA7.4:1
Blush Shadow Muted
#543B47
AAA7.6:1
Blush Shadow Dust
#5A3547
AAA7.8:1
Blush Shadow Soft
#602F47
AAA7.9:1
Blush Shadow Clear
#6E2147
AAA7.6:1
Blush Shadow Vivid
#7C1347

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#D3D1DA
Protanopia
#D5D5D9
Tritanopia
#CADCDD
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