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#02433c

a deep, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Dark Slate Gray

Token name suggestion: Midnight Teal

RGB
2, 67, 60
HSL
174°, 94%, 14%
CMYK
97, 0, 10, 74
Luminance
0.0435

#02433c is a deep electric cyan, 174° on the wheel and 85/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.23:1). As text it scores 11.23:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Gray, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(174 94% 14%)rgb(2 67 60)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #02433c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#02433c
Hue
174°
cyan
Saturation
94%
electric
Lightness
14%
deep
Brightness
26%
HSV value
Perceived
22%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0435
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
85/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
11.23:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Gray
ΔE2000 8.3
Chroma
20.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.344
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 26.8
Web-safe
#003333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue174° of 360°
Saturation94%
Lightness14%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #02433c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool85% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red0%
Green92%
Blue7%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#02433c
HEX (8-digit)#02433cff
RGBrgb(2, 67, 60)
RGBArgba(2, 67, 60, 1)
HSLhsl(174, 94%, 14%)
HSV / HSBhsv(174, 97%, 26%)
HWBhwb(174 1% 74%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 0%, 10%, 74%)
LABlab(24.8 -20.6 -1.1)
LCHlch(24.8 20.6 183.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.344 0.060 183.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(2.85, 4.35, 4.96)
Decimal148284
Display P3color(display-p3 0.008 0.263 0.235)
Web-safe#003333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #02433c;
background-color: #02433c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #02433c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#02433c] bg-[#02433c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #02433c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.008, green: 0.263, blue: 0.235)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.008, green: 0.263, blue: 0.235, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#02433C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF02433C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF02433C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(60, 67, 2)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(2, 67, 60)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(2, 67, 60)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 2, 67, 60)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0078f, 0.2627f, 0.2353f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{2,67,60}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #02433c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #02433c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#047C6F, #D3EEEB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #02433c h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F2FDFC;
  --brand-100: #E4FBF9;
  --brand-200: #C2FAF4;
  --brand-300: #92FCF0;
  --brand-400: #5CFAE9;
  --brand-500: #25F8E2;
  --brand-600: #07EED5;
  --brand-700: #06C6B1;
  --brand-800: #059E8E;
  --brand-900: #087267;
  --brand-950: #02433c;
  --brand: #02433c;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE8;
  --brand-hover: #01201D;
  --brand-pressed: #000000;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142423;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFC',
        100: '#E4FBF9',
        200: '#C2FAF4',
        300: '#92FCF0',
        400: '#5CFAE9',
        500: '#25F8E2',
        600: '#07EED5',
        700: '#06C6B1',
        800: '#059E8E',
        900: '#087267',
        950: '#02433c',
        DEFAULT: '#02433c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFC,
  '100': #E4FBF9,
  '200': #C2FAF4,
  '300': #92FCF0,
  '400': #5CFAE9,
  '500': #25F8E2,
  '600': #07EED5,
  '700': #06C6B1,
  '800': #059E8E,
  '900': #087267,
  '950': #02433c,
);
$brand-base: #02433c;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDFC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBF9", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2FAF4", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92FCF0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CFAE9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#25F8E2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#07EED5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#06C6B1", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#059E8E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#087267", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#02433c", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #02433c · 11.23:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.23:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.87:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #02433c as text scores 11.23:1 on white and 1.87:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E6FEFC at 10.66:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#02433c · 11.23:1
AA on whitealready passes
#02433c
The quick fox
#02433c · 11.23:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#02433c
The quick fox
#048375 · 4.51:1
AA on black+13% L
#048375
The quick fox
#05AB99 · 7.29:1
AAA on black+21% L
#05AB99

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02433C is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#02433c on white: 11.23:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#02433c on black: 1.87:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #02433c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #02433c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.23:1AaAa
Slate 5010.73:1AaAa
Slate 10010.25:1AaAa
Slate 2009.11:1AaAa
Slate 3007.56:1AaAa
Slate 4004.38:1AaAa
Slate 5002.36:1AaAa
Slate 6001.48:1AaAa
Slate 7001.08:1AaAa
Slate 8001.30:1AaAa
Slate 9001.59:1AaAa
Black1.87:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #3F3E3C
deuteranopia · #37383D
tritanopia · #004541

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #02433c is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FDFC
#E4FBF9
#C2FAF4
#92FCF0
#5CFAE9
#25F8E2
#07EED5
#06C6B1
#059E8E
#087267
#02433c
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFCDarkest = 950 · #02433cText step on white = 900
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.015 183.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.024 183.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.036 183.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.047 183.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.055 183.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.060 183.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.060 183.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.057 183.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.051 183.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.042 183.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.033 183.1);
}

Colors that work with #02433c

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B92
Captions on the surface
Accent#440119
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#047C6F
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEFC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142423
Dark-mode background
Hover#01201D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#000000
Two steps down
Disabled#476E6A
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#005950
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #02433c

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text on black or near-black surfaces
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Black text placed on it
  • Thin strokes and 1px borders — they disappear on light UI
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

cleantechnicalfreshclinical

Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The low lightness adds weight and formality.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityHigh
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight87/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#430209
Analogous left#02431B
Analogous right#022943
Split-complement 1#430229
Split-complement 2#431B02
Triadic 1#3C0243
Triadic 2#433C02
Tetradic#1B0243
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°174°

#02433c sits at 174°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.8%
Green26.3%
Blue23.5%
R · 0–255
2
0x02
G · 0–255
67
0x43
B · 0–255
60
0x3c

CMYK percentages

Cyan97.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.4%
Key (black)73.7%

Total ink coverage is 181%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#02433c text on a black background

contrast 1.87:1

Card sample

#02433c text on a white background

contrast 11.23:1

Card sample

#02433c on grey

10.25:1

#02433c on its own surface

10.64:1

#02433c on its dark surface

1.43:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #02433c;
Background color
Panel with #02433c background
background-color: #02433c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #02433c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(2, 67, 60, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(2, 67, 60, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #02433c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #02433c, #021F43);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02433c, #020E43);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #02433c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #02433c;
caret-color: #02433c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #02433c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEFC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #02433c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#02433c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #02433c over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(2, 67, 60, 0.5)
rgb(2 67 60 / 50%)
#02433c80
hsl(174 94% 14% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #02433c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#02433c1a#E6ECEC
20%#02433c33#CCD9D8
40%#02433c66#9AB4B1
60%#02433c99#678E8A
80%#02433ccc#356963

Gradients from #02433c

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #047E71, #02433c 45%, #047C6F);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #02433c, #010E25);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02433c, #430209);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #059C8C 0%, #02433c 45%, #047C6F 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAFA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #037426 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #033461 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #047C6F 0%, transparent 65%), #02433c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #02433c

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#02433c in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
TechnologyTravelHealthcareMedia
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.87:1 — lift it to #048375 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#02433c, answered

What color is #02433c?

#02433c is a deep electric cyan, closest to Dark Slate Gray (ΔE2000 8.3). It sits at 174° on the hue wheel with 94% saturation and 14% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #02433c?

rgb(2, 67, 60) — 2 red, 67 green and 60 blue out of 255, or 0.8% / 26.3% / 23.5% by channel.

What is #02433c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(174, 94%, 14%) and hsv(174, 97%, 26%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #02433c a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0435 and perceived brightness is 22%, so white text on it reaches 11.23:1.

Should I use black or white text on #02433c?

White. It scores 11.23:1 against #02433c, versus 1.87:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #02433c accessible on a white background?

#02433c on white scores 11.23:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #02433c?

#430209 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #430229 and #431B02, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #02433c?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE8 for borders, #4B9B92 for secondary text, #440119 as an accent and #047C6F for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #02431B and #022943 stays calm, while #430209 is the loudest partner.

What is #02433c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 0%, 10%, 74%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #02433c warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 85 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #024324; nudged cooler, #013244.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #02433c?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 26.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #02433c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #02433c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#02433c] or text-[#02433c], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #02433c with 50% opacity?

rgba(2, 67, 60, 0.5), or #02433c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81A19E; over black, #01221E.

Is #02433c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #003333, ΔE2000 6.3 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #02433c mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #02433c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #047E71, #02433c 45%, #047C6F). For more colour, a short hue run to #010E25 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #02433c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #02433c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.