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#02ceba

a dark, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Forest Reef

RGB
2, 206, 186
HSL
174°, 98%, 41%
CMYK
99, 0, 10, 19
Luminance
0.4770

#02ceba is a dark electric cyan, 174° on the wheel and 85/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.54:1). As text it scores 1.99:1 on white — use #018276 instead. Nearest name is Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(174 98% 41%)rgb(2 206 186)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #02ceba is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#02ceba
Hue
174°
cyan
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
41%
dark
Brightness
81%
HSV value
Perceived
67%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4770
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
85/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
10.54:1
Closest name
Turquoise
ΔE2000 4.9
Chroma
46.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.764
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 5.7
Web-safe
#00CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue174° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness41%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #02ceba.

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%
Green93%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#02ceba
HEX (8-digit)#02cebaff
RGBrgb(2, 206, 186)
RGBArgba(2, 206, 186, 1)
HSLhsl(174, 98%, 41%)
HSV / HSBhsv(174, 99%, 81%)
HWBhwb(174 1% 19%)
CMYKcmyk(99%, 0%, 10%, 19%)
LABlab(74.6 -46.6 -2.1)
LCHlch(74.6 46.7 182.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.764 0.136 182.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.95, 47.70, 54.02)
Decimal183994
Display P3color(display-p3 0.008 0.808 0.729)
Web-safe#00CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #02ceba;
background-color: #02ceba;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #02ceba;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#02ceba] bg-[#02ceba]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #02ceba;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.008, green: 0.808, blue: 0.729)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.008, green: 0.808, blue: 0.729, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#02CEBA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF02CEBA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF02CEBA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(186, 206, 2)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(2, 206, 186)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(2, 206, 186)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 2, 206, 186)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0078f, 0.8078f, 0.7294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{2,206,186}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #02ceba 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #02ceba 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#017E72, #D3EEEB);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #02ceba 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: #F1FDFC;
  --brand-100: #E3FCFA;
  --brand-200: #C1FBF5;
  --brand-300: #90FEF3;
  --brand-400: #58FDED;
  --brand-500: #21FDE7;
  --brand-600: #02F2DB;
  --brand-700: #02ceba;
  --brand-800: #02A292;
  --brand-900: #06746A;
  --brand-950: #044942;
  --brand: #02ceba;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE8;
  --brand-hover: #02AB9A;
  --brand-pressed: #01877A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142423;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEB;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDFC',
        100: '#E3FCFA',
        200: '#C1FBF5',
        300: '#90FEF3',
        400: '#58FDED',
        500: '#21FDE7',
        600: '#02F2DB',
        700: '#02ceba',
        800: '#02A292',
        900: '#06746A',
        950: '#044942',
        DEFAULT: '#02ceba',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDFC,
  '100': #E3FCFA,
  '200': #C1FBF5,
  '300': #90FEF3,
  '400': #58FDED,
  '500': #21FDE7,
  '600': #02F2DB,
  '700': #02ceba,
  '800': #02A292,
  '900': #06746A,
  '950': #044942,
);
$brand-base: #02ceba;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDFC", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCFA", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1FBF5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#90FEF3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#58FDED", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#21FDE7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#02F2DB", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#02ceba", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#02A292", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#06746A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#044942", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#000000", "$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#000000 on #02ceba · 10.54:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.99:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.54:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #02ceba as text scores 1.99:1 on white and 10.54:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #017E72 at 2.49:1.

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
#018276 · 4.71:1
AA on white−15% L
#018276
The quick fox
#01645A · 7.07:1
AAA on white−21% L
#01645A
The quick fox
#02ceba · 10.54:1
AA on blackalready passes
#02ceba
The quick fox
#02ceba · 10.54:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#02ceba

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02A696 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
#02ceba on white: 1.99:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#02ceba on black: 10.54:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #02ceba as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #02ceba.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.99:1AaAa
Slate 501.90:1AaAa
Slate 1001.82:1AaAa
Slate 2001.62:1AaAa
Slate 3001.34:1AaAa
Slate 4001.29:1AaAa
Slate 5002.39:1AaAa
Slate 6003.80:1AaAa
Slate 7005.20:1AaAa
Slate 8007.34:1AaAa
Slate 9008.96:1AaAa
Black10.54:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C4C1B9
deuteranopia · #ADB1BC
tritanopia · #00D2C8

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. #02ceba is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FDFC
#E3FCFA
#C1FBF5
#90FEF3
#58FDED
#21FDE7
#02F2DB
#02ceba
#02A292
#06746A
#044942
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F1FDFCDarkest = 950 · #044942Text 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 0.034 182.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 182.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.082 182.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.106 182.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.125 182.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.136 182.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.136 182.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.128 182.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.114 182.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.095 182.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.075 182.7);
}

Colors that work with #02ceba

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

Text on it#000000
Black wins here
Surface#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE8
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B93
Captions on the surface
Accent#D00048
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#017E72
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFFC
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142423
Dark-mode background
Hover#02AB9A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#01877A
Two steps down
Disabled#8BB5B1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#00E4CE
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
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Data
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How to use #02ceba

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • 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 of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #017E72
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #02A696

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
  • Weight59/100
  • 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#CE0216
Analogous left#02CE54
Analogous right#027CCE
Split-complement 1#CE027C
Split-complement 2#CE5402
Triadic 1#BA02CE
Triadic 2#CEBA02
Tetradic#5402CE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°174°

#02ceba sits at 174°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red0.8%
Green80.8%
Blue72.9%
R · 0–255
2
0x02
G · 0–255
206
0xce
B · 0–255
186
0xba

CMYK percentages

Cyan99.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.7%
Key (black)19.2%

Total ink coverage is 128%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#02ceba text on a black background

contrast 10.54:1

Card sample

#02ceba text on a white background

contrast 1.99:1

Card sample

#02ceba on grey

1.82:1

#02ceba on its own surface

1.89:1

#02ceba on its dark surface

8.07:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #02ceba;
Background color
Panel with #02ceba background
background-color: #02ceba;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #02ceba;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(2, 206, 186, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(2, 206, 186, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #02ceba;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #02ceba, #025ACE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02ceba, #0227CE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #02ceba;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #02ceba;
caret-color: #02ceba;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #02ceba;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFFC;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #02ceba;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#02ceba 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #02ceba 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, 206, 186, 0.5)
rgb(2 206 186 / 50%)
#02ceba80
hsl(174 98% 41% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #02ceba 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#02ceba1a#E6FAF8
20%#02ceba33#CCF5F1
40%#02ceba66#9AEBE3
60%#02ceba99#67E2D6
80%#02cebacc#35D8C8

Gradients from #02ceba

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, #11FDE5, #02ceba 45%, #017E72);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #02ceba, #023EB0);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #02ceba, #CE0216);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #2FFDE9 0%, #02ceba 45%, #017E72 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%, #06FD55 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #027BEC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #017E72 0%, transparent 65%), #02ceba;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #02ceba

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.

#02ceba 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

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 10.54:1.

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.

#02ceba, answered

What color is #02ceba?

#02ceba is a dark electric cyan, closest to Turquoise (ΔE2000 4.9). It sits at 174° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 41% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #02ceba?

rgb(2, 206, 186) — 2 red, 206 green and 186 blue out of 255, or 0.8% / 80.8% / 72.9% by channel.

What is #02ceba in HSL and HSV?

hsl(174, 98%, 41%) and hsv(174, 99%, 81%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #02ceba a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4770 and perceived brightness is 67%, so black text on it reaches 10.54:1.

Should I use black or white text on #02ceba?

Black. It scores 10.54:1 against #02ceba, versus 1.99:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #02ceba accessible on a white background?

#02ceba on white scores 1.99:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #018276 to reach 4.5:1, or #01645A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #02ceba?

#CE0216 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CE027C and #CE5402, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #02ceba?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE8 for borders, #4B9B93 for secondary text, #D00048 as an accent and #017E72 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #02CE54 and #027CCE stays calm, while #CE0216 is the loudest partner.

What is #02ceba in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(99%, 0%, 10%, 19%). 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 #02ceba 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 #02CE6F; nudged cooler, #00A3D0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #02ceba?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 5.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #02ceba as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #02ceba in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#02ceba] or text-[#02ceba], 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 #02ceba with 50% opacity?

rgba(2, 206, 186, 0.5), or #02ceba80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #81E7DD; over black, #01675D.

Is #02ceba a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #00CCCC, ΔE2000 6.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #02ceba 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 #02ceba?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #11FDE5, #02ceba 45%, #017E72). For more colour, a short hue run to #023EB0 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #02ceba in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #02ceba at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.