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#07937c

a dark, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Dark Cyan

Token name suggestion: Dusk Teal

RGB
7, 147, 124
HSL
170°, 91%, 30%
CMYK
95, 0, 16, 42
Luminance
0.2237

#07937c is a dark electric cyan, 170° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.47:1). As text it scores 3.84:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Dark Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(170 91% 30%)rgb(7 147 124)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #07937c is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#07937c
Hue
170°
cyan
Saturation
91%
electric
Lightness
30%
dark
Brightness
58%
HSV value
Perceived
47%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2237
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
5.47:1
Closest name
Dark Cyan
ΔE2000 9
Chroma
38.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.593
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 11.7
Web-safe
#009966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue170° of 360°
Saturation91%
Lightness30%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #07937c.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool83% 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#07937c
HEX (8-digit)#07937cff
RGBrgb(7, 147, 124)
RGBArgba(7, 147, 124, 1)
HSLhsl(170, 91%, 30%)
HSV / HSBhsv(170, 95%, 58%)
HWBhwb(170 3% 42%)
CMYKcmyk(95%, 0%, 16%, 42%)
LABlab(54.4 -38.5 2.9)
LCHlch(54.4 38.6 175.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.593 0.110 176.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(14.16, 22.37, 22.64)
Decimal496508
Display P3color(display-p3 0.027 0.576 0.486)
Web-safe#009966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #07937c;
background-color: #07937c;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #07937c;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#07937c] bg-[#07937c]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #07937c;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.027, green: 0.576, blue: 0.486)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.027, green: 0.576, blue: 0.486, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#07937C</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF07937C)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF07937C)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(124, 147, 7)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(7, 147, 124)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(7, 147, 124)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 7, 147, 124)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0275f, 0.5765f, 0.4863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{7,147,124}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #07937c 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #07937c 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#067A67, #D3EEEA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #07937c 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: #F2FDFB;
  --brand-100: #E5FBF7;
  --brand-200: #C3F9F0;
  --brand-300: #94FAE9;
  --brand-400: #5EF7DE;
  --brand-500: #29F5D3;
  --brand-600: #0BEAC5;
  --brand-700: #09C3A4;
  --brand-800: #07937c;
  --brand-900: #0A705F;
  --brand-950: #06463C;
  --brand: #07937c;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE5;
  --brand-hover: #05715F;
  --brand-pressed: #044F42;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFB',
        100: '#E5FBF7',
        200: '#C3F9F0',
        300: '#94FAE9',
        400: '#5EF7DE',
        500: '#29F5D3',
        600: '#0BEAC5',
        700: '#09C3A4',
        800: '#07937c',
        900: '#0A705F',
        950: '#06463C',
        DEFAULT: '#07937c',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFB,
  '100': #E5FBF7,
  '200': #C3F9F0,
  '300': #94FAE9,
  '400': #5EF7DE,
  '500': #29F5D3,
  '600': #0BEAC5,
  '700': #09C3A4,
  '800': #07937c,
  '900': #0A705F,
  '950': #06463C,
);
$brand-base: #07937c;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FBF7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C3F9F0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#94FAE9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5EF7DE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#29F5D3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0BEAC5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#09C3A4", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#07937c", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0A705F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#06463C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #07937c · 5.47:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.84:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.47:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #07937c as text scores 3.84:1 on white and 5.47:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #067A67 at 1.37:1.

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
#068470 · 4.62:1
AA on white−3% L
#068470
The quick fox
#056253 · 7.30:1
AAA on white−10% L
#056253
The quick fox
#07937c · 5.47:1
AA on blackalready passes
#07937c
The quick fox
#08AB90 · 7.24:1
AAA on black+5% L
#08AB90

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #07937C 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
#07937c on white: 3.84:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#07937c on black: 5.47:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #07937c as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #07937c.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.84:1AaAa
Slate 503.67:1AaAa
Slate 1003.50:1AaAa
Slate 2003.11:1AaAa
Slate 3002.58:1AaAa
Slate 4001.50:1AaAa
Slate 5001.24:1AaAa
Slate 6001.98:1AaAa
Slate 7002.70:1AaAa
Slate 8003.81:1AaAa
Slate 9004.65:1AaAa
Black5.47:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #8D897B
deuteranopia · #7D7D7E
tritanopia · #00958C

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. #07937c is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FDFB
#E5FBF7
#C3F9F0
#94FAE9
#5EF7DE
#29F5D3
#0BEAC5
#09C3A4
#07937c
#0A705F
#06463C
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFBDarkest = 950 · #06463CText 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 0.027 176.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.044 176.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.066 176.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.085 176.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.101 176.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.110 176.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.110 176.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.103 176.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.092 176.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.077 176.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.060 176.3);
}

Colors that work with #07937c

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#F4FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8E
Captions on the surface
Accent#960441
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#067A67
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#05715F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#044F42
Two steps down
Disabled#6AA097
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#00AE92
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 #07937c

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • 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
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • 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
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #067A67
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
  • Weight70/100
  • 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#93071E
Analogous left#079336
Analogous right#076493
Split-complement 1#930764
Split-complement 2#933607
Triadic 1#7C0793
Triadic 2#937C07
Tetradic#360793
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°170°

#07937c sits at 170°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red2.7%
Green57.6%
Blue48.6%
R · 0–255
7
0x07
G · 0–255
147
0x93
B · 0–255
124
0x7c

CMYK percentages

Cyan95.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow15.6%
Key (black)42.4%

Total ink coverage is 153%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#07937c text on a black background

contrast 5.47:1

Card sample

#07937c text on a white background

contrast 3.84:1

Card sample

#07937c on grey

3.50:1

#07937c on its own surface

3.63:1

#07937c on its dark surface

4.19:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #07937c;
Background color
Panel with #07937c background
background-color: #07937c;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #07937c;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(7, 147, 124, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(7, 147, 124, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #07937c;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #07937c, #074D93);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07937c, #072A93);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #07937c;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #07937c;
caret-color: #07937c;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #07937c;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #07937c;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#07937c 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #07937c 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(7, 147, 124, 0.5)
rgb(7 147 124 / 50%)
#07937c80
hsl(170 91% 30% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #07937c 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#07937c1a#E6F4F2
20%#07937c33#CDE9E5
40%#07937c66#9CD4CB
60%#07937c99#6ABEB0
80%#07937ccc#39A996

Gradients from #07937c

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, #0ACDAD, #07937c 45%, #067A67);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #07937c, #063476);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07937c, #93071E);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #0BEBC6 0%, #07937c 45%, #067A67 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #09C438 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #086AB0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #067A67 0%, transparent 65%), #07937c;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #07937c

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.

#07937c 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 5.47:1.

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.

#07937c, answered

What color is #07937c?

#07937c is a dark electric cyan, closest to Dark Cyan (ΔE2000 9). It sits at 170° on the hue wheel with 91% saturation and 30% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #07937c?

rgb(7, 147, 124) — 7 red, 147 green and 124 blue out of 255, or 2.7% / 57.6% / 48.6% by channel.

What is #07937c in HSL and HSV?

hsl(170, 91%, 30%) and hsv(170, 95%, 58%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #07937c a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2237 and perceived brightness is 47%, so black text on it reaches 5.47:1.

Should I use black or white text on #07937c?

Black. It scores 5.47:1 against #07937c, versus 3.84:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #07937c accessible on a white background?

#07937c on white scores 3.84:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #068470 to reach 4.5:1, or #056253 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #07937c?

#93071E sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #930764 and #933607, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #07937c?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE5 for borders, #4B9B8E for secondary text, #960441 as an accent and #067A67 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #079336 and #076493 stays calm, while #93071E is the loudest partner.

What is #07937c in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(95%, 0%, 16%, 42%). 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 #07937c warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 83 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #079349; nudged cooler, #057895.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #07937c?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 11.7 away. That is a visible difference, so define #07937c as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #07937c in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#07937c] or text-[#07937c], 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 #07937c with 50% opacity?

rgba(7, 147, 124, 0.5), or #07937c80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #83C9BE; over black, #044A3E.

Is #07937c a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #009966, ΔE2000 8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #07937c 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 #07937c?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #0ACDAD, #07937c 45%, #067A67). For more colour, a short hue run to #063476 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #07937c in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #07937c at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.