Caribbean Blue

#1ac1dd

Light teal-blue for calm, modern chart accents

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About Caribbean Blue

Caribbean Blue reads lighter and airier than , but it's got more bite than ever will. This is the blue that sits between playful and professional, it's got enough saturation to land on screen without the electric demand of , and warmer undertone keeps it from feeling sterile the way cooler cyans do.

Reach for this in product interfaces where you need a color that feels approachable: health dashboards, education platforms, SaaS onboarding flows, anywhere secondary surfaces should feel inviting instead of corporate. Works as card backgrounds, success states, or accent layers in light-themed apps. It'll pair cleanly with mid-gray text and doesn't need maximum contrast to read as intentional. Unlike Cockatoo, which nudges toward teal, this one stays decisively blue, bright enough to work harder than a pale secondary, restrained enough not to compete with content.

On warmer monitors it might drift slightly cyan-adjacent, which honestly just softens it further. On cooler displays it holds truer to blue. Either way, it's specific enough that you'll want to test early against your actual backgrounds.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

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On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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On Gray 900 #18181b

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On Black #000000

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