What Azure Cascade up Limning

#9cc8c4 RGB(156,200,196)

About this color

What Azure Cascade up Limning is a moderate, light cyan tone, fixed at #9cc8c4 in the RGB color space.

#9cc8c4RGB(156, 200, 196)

HSL 175° · 29% saturation · 70% lightness

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Psychology

Pale cyan is one of the most readable background tones for screens: low fatigue, high clarity.

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History

Cyan as a printing ink became central to modern colour reproduction — the C in CMYK — because its complement to red allows the full printable colour range.

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Design use

With its high lightness, this tone is ideal as page backgrounds, input fields, and hover states — contexts where colour informs rather than dominates. Pair with deeper tones of the same family for clear visual hierarchy.

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Colour pairings

For palette building, cyan complements warm reds and red-oranges — a palette of technological energy. For calmer use, pair with white, light grey, and the lightest tints of the same hue.

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Color Categories

Color formats

Name
What Azure Cascade up Limning
HEX
#9cc8c4
RGB
rgb(156,200,196)
RGB%
rgb(61.2%,78.4%,76.9%)
HSL
hsl(175,29%,70%)
HSV
hsv(175,22%,78%)
CMYK
cmyk(22,0,2,22)
LAB
lab(77,-15,-3)
LCH
lch(77,15,191)
sRGB
(0.612,0.784,0.769)
HEX8
#9cc8c4ff
CSS Name
Decimal
156200196

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Color info

Lightness
70%
Saturation
29%
Hue
175°
Chroma
15
Temperature
WarmCool
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