Ocean Breeze

#d3e5eb

Softer ocean-cool light gray for calm sections

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About Ocean Breeze

Ocean Breeze looks like the sky-gray you see through a thin sheet of marine fog, not the cool frost of a window and not the muted powder-gray of a surface that forgot to be interesting. It's a touch brighter and more airy than , but it doesn't carry the same soft blue hush. Compared to , it stays cleaner and less "work-in-progress" looking, with less greenish tint and more open, skyward clarity.

I'd use it for light UI surfaces where you want breathing-room backgrounds that still feel intentional: onboarding steps in SaaS, card gutters in fintech dashboards, and canvas space in design software when the layout needs to hold shape. It sits nicely behind charts for analytics teams and in medical admin screens where the page should feel calm without drifting into near-white glare.

Quirk: because it's so bright, it can wash out next to or other sharper cools, so give it structure with slightly deeper grays for dividers and text blocks. This is the one you reach for when you want "in-between" to read as clear, not timid.

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