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#07bbc8

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Teal

RGB
7, 187, 200
HSL
184°, 93%, 41%
CMYK
97, 7, 0, 22
Luminance
0.3976

#07bbc8 is a dark electric cyan, 184° on the wheel and 89/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (8.95:1). As text it scores 2.35:1 on white — use #057F88 instead. Nearest name is Dark Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is cyan.

hsl(184 93% 41%)rgb(7 187 200)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #07bbc8 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#07bbc8
Hue
184°
cyan
Saturation
93%
electric
Lightness
41%
dark
Brightness
78%
HSV value
Perceived
62%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3976
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
89/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
8.95:1
Closest name
Dark Turquoise
ΔE2000 6.1
Chroma
38.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.722
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
cyan
500 · ΔE 6
Web-safe
#00CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue184° of 360°
Saturation93%
Lightness41%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #07bbc8.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool89% 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%
Green89%
Blue10%

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

Every format

HEX#07bbc8
HEX (8-digit)#07bbc8ff
RGBrgb(7, 187, 200)
RGBArgba(7, 187, 200, 1)
HSLhsl(184, 93%, 41%)
HSV / HSBhsv(184, 97%, 78%)
HWBhwb(184 3% 22%)
CMYKcmyk(97%, 7%, 0%, 22%)
LABlab(69.3 -33.9 -17.6)
LCHlch(69.3 38.2 207.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.722 0.122 203.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(28.28, 39.75, 60.81)
Decimal506824
Display P3color(display-p3 0.027 0.733 0.784)
Web-safe#00CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #07bbc8;
background-color: #07bbc8;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #07bbc8;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#07bbc8] bg-[#07bbc8]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #07bbc8;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.027, green: 0.733, blue: 0.784)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.027, green: 0.733, blue: 0.784, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#07BBC8</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF07BBC8)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF07BBC8)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(200, 187, 7)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(7, 187, 200)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(7, 187, 200)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 7, 187, 200)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0275f, 0.7333f, 0.7843f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{7,187,200}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #07bbc8 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #07bbc8 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#04737B, #D3ECEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #07bbc8 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: #F2FCFD;
  --brand-100: #E4FAFB;
  --brand-200: #C2F6F9;
  --brand-300: #93F4FB;
  --brand-400: #5CEFF9;
  --brand-500: #26E9F7;
  --brand-600: #08DDEC;
  --brand-700: #07bbc8;
  --brand-800: #06949E;
  --brand-900: #096B72;
  --brand-950: #054347;
  --brand: #07bbc8;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EAED;
  --brand-hover: #069BA6;
  --brand-pressed: #057B83;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142324;
    --brand-ink: #D3ECEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCFD',
        100: '#E4FAFB',
        200: '#C2F6F9',
        300: '#93F4FB',
        400: '#5CEFF9',
        500: '#26E9F7',
        600: '#08DDEC',
        700: '#07bbc8',
        800: '#06949E',
        900: '#096B72',
        950: '#054347',
        DEFAULT: '#07bbc8',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCFD,
  '100': #E4FAFB,
  '200': #C2F6F9,
  '300': #93F4FB,
  '400': #5CEFF9,
  '500': #26E9F7,
  '600': #08DDEC,
  '700': #07bbc8,
  '800': #06949E,
  '900': #096B72,
  '950': #054347,
);
$brand-base: #07bbc8;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FAFB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2F6F9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#93F4FB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5CEFF9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#26E9F7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#08DDEC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#07bbc8", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#06949E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#096B72", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054347", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #07bbc8 · 8.95:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.35:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 8.95:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #07bbc8 as text scores 2.35:1 on white and 8.95:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #04737B at 2.39:1.

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
#057F88 · 4.78:1
AA on white−13% L
#057F88
The quick fox
#045F65 · 7.42:1
AAA on white−20% L
#045F65
The quick fox
#07bbc8 · 8.95:1
AA on blackalready passes
#07bbc8
The quick fox
#07bbc8 · 8.95:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#07bbc8

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #06A4AF 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
#07bbc8 on white: 2.35:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#07bbc8 on black: 8.95:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #07bbc8 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #07bbc8.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.35:1AaAa
Slate 502.24:1AaAa
Slate 1002.14:1AaAa
Slate 2001.90:1AaAa
Slate 3001.58:1AaAa
Slate 4001.09:1AaAa
Slate 5002.03:1AaAa
Slate 6003.23:1AaAa
Slate 7004.41:1AaAa
Slate 8006.24:1AaAa
Slate 9007.61:1AaAa
Black8.95:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #ABB3C9
deuteranopia · #94A2C9
tritanopia · #00C3BF

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. #07bbc8 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.

#F2FCFD
#E4FAFB
#C2F6F9
#93F4FB
#5CEFF9
#26E9F7
#08DDEC
#07bbc8
#06949E
#096B72
#054347
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F2FCFDDarkest = 950 · #054347Text 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 0.031 203.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.049 203.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.073 203.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.095 203.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.113 203.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.122 203.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.122 203.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.115 203.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.103 203.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.086 203.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.067 203.7);
}

Colors that work with #07bbc8

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#C0EAED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B969B
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC0328
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#04737B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FDFE
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142324
Dark-mode background
Hover#069BA6
One step down in lightness
Pressed#057B83
Two steps down
Disabled#8BB2B5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#00D4E3
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
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Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #07bbc8

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 #04737B
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #06A4AF

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#C81407
Analogous left#07C874
Analogous right#075BC8
Split-complement 1#C8075B
Split-complement 2#C87407
Triadic 1#C807BB
Triadic 2#BBC807
Tetradic#7407C8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°184°

#07bbc8 sits at 184°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red2.7%
Green73.3%
Blue78.4%
R · 0–255
7
0x07
G · 0–255
187
0xbb
B · 0–255
200
0xc8

CMYK percentages

Cyan96.5%
Magenta6.5%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)21.6%

Total ink coverage is 125%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#07bbc8 text on a black background

contrast 8.95:1

Card sample

#07bbc8 text on a white background

contrast 2.35:1

Card sample

#07bbc8 on grey

2.14:1

#07bbc8 on its own surface

2.22:1

#07bbc8 on its dark surface

6.91:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #07bbc8;
Background color
Panel with #07bbc8 background
background-color: #07bbc8;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #07bbc8;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(7, 187, 200, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(7, 187, 200, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #07bbc8;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #07bbc8, #073BC8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07bbc8, #070AC8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #07bbc8;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #07bbc8;
caret-color: #07bbc8;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #07bbc8;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FDFE;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #07bbc8;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#07bbc8 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #07bbc8 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, 187, 200, 0.5)
rgb(7 187 200 / 50%)
#07bbc880
hsl(184 93% 41% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #07bbc8 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#07bbc81a#E6F8FA
20%#07bbc833#CDF1F4
40%#07bbc866#9CE4E9
60%#07bbc899#6AD6DE
80%#07bbc8cc#39C9D3

Gradients from #07bbc8

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, #15E8F7, #07bbc8 45%, #04737B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #07bbc8, #0624AA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #07bbc8, #C81407);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #33EBF8 0%, #07bbc8 45%, #04737B 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%, #0CF67D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #0856E6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #04737B 0%, transparent 65%), #07bbc8;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #07bbc8

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.

#07bbc8 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 8.95:1.

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.

#07bbc8, answered

What color is #07bbc8?

#07bbc8 is a dark electric cyan, closest to Dark Turquoise (ΔE2000 6.1). It sits at 184° on the hue wheel with 93% saturation and 41% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #07bbc8?

rgb(7, 187, 200) — 7 red, 187 green and 200 blue out of 255, or 2.7% / 73.3% / 78.4% by channel.

What is #07bbc8 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(184, 93%, 41%) and hsv(184, 97%, 78%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #07bbc8 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3976 and perceived brightness is 62%, so black text on it reaches 8.95:1.

Should I use black or white text on #07bbc8?

Black. It scores 8.95:1 against #07bbc8, versus 2.35:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #07bbc8 accessible on a white background?

#07bbc8 on white scores 2.35:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #057F88 to reach 4.5:1, or #045F65 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #07bbc8?

#C81407 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C8075B and #C87407, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #07bbc8?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EAED for borders, #4B969B for secondary text, #CC0328 as an accent and #04737B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #07C874 and #075BC8 stays calm, while #C81407 is the loudest partner.

What is #07bbc8 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(97%, 7%, 0%, 22%). 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 #07bbc8 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 89 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #07C88E; nudged cooler, #058FCA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #07bbc8?

The cyan family — its 500 step is #06b6d4, ΔE2000 6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #07bbc8 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #07bbc8 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#07bbc8] or text-[#07bbc8], 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 #07bbc8 with 50% opacity?

rgba(7, 187, 200, 0.5), or #07bbc880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #83DDE4; over black, #045E64.

Is #07bbc8 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #00CCCC, ΔE2000 6.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #07bbc8 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 #07bbc8?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #15E8F7, #07bbc8 45%, #04737B). For more colour, a short hue run to #0624AA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #07bbc8 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #07bbc8 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.