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#08beba

a dark, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Light Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Forest Reef

RGB
8, 190, 186
HSL
179°, 92%, 39%
CMYK
96, 0, 2, 26
Luminance
0.4042

#08beba is a dark electric cyan, 179° on the wheel and 87/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.08:1). As text it scores 2.31:1 on white — use #068380 instead. Nearest name is Light Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(179 92% 39%)rgb(8 190 186)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #08beba is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#08beba
Hue
179°
cyan
Saturation
92%
electric
Lightness
39%
dark
Brightness
75%
HSV value
Perceived
62%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4042
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
87/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
9.08:1
Closest name
Light Sea Green
ΔE2000 3.7
Chroma
40.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.725
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 5.3
Web-safe
#00CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue179° of 360°
Saturation92%
Lightness39%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #08beba.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool87% 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%
Green91%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#08beba
HEX (8-digit)#08bebaff
RGBrgb(8, 190, 186)
RGBArgba(8, 190, 186, 1)
HSLhsl(179, 92%, 39%)
HSV / HSBhsv(179, 96%, 75%)
HWBhwb(179 3% 25%)
CMYKcmyk(96%, 0%, 2%, 26%)
LABlab(69.8 -39.5 -9.3)
LCHlch(69.8 40.6 193.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.725 0.123 192.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(27.37, 40.42, 52.80)
Decimal573114
Display P3color(display-p3 0.031 0.745 0.729)
Web-safe#00CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #08beba;
background-color: #08beba;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #08beba;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#08beba] bg-[#08beba]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #08beba;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.031, green: 0.745, blue: 0.729)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.031, green: 0.745, blue: 0.729, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#08BEBA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF08BEBA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF08BEBA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(186, 190, 8)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(8, 190, 186)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(8, 190, 186)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 8, 190, 186)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0314f, 0.7451f, 0.7294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{8,190,186}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #08beba 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #08beba 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#057A78, #D3EEEE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #08beba 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: #F2FDFD;
  --brand-100: #E4FBFB;
  --brand-200: #C3F9F8;
  --brand-300: #93FAF8;
  --brand-400: #5EF8F5;
  --brand-500: #28F6F1;
  --brand-600: #0AEBE6;
  --brand-700: #08beba;
  --brand-800: #079D99;
  --brand-900: #09716F;
  --brand-950: #064745;
  --brand: #08beba;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDEC;
  --brand-hover: #079C98;
  --brand-pressed: #057977;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FDFD',
        100: '#E4FBFB',
        200: '#C3F9F8',
        300: '#93FAF8',
        400: '#5EF8F5',
        500: '#28F6F1',
        600: '#0AEBE6',
        700: '#08beba',
        800: '#079D99',
        900: '#09716F',
        950: '#064745',
        DEFAULT: '#08beba',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FDFD,
  '100': #E4FBFB,
  '200': #C3F9F8,
  '300': #93FAF8,
  '400': #5EF8F5,
  '500': #28F6F1,
  '600': #0AEBE6,
  '700': #08beba,
  '800': #079D99,
  '900': #09716F,
  '950': #064745,
);
$brand-base: #08beba;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FDFD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBFB", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C3F9F8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#93FAF8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#5EF8F5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#28F6F1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#0AEBE6", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#08beba", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#079D99", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#09716F", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#064745", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #08beba · 9.08:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.31:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.08:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #08beba as text scores 2.31:1 on white and 9.08:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #057A78 at 2.24:1.

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
#068380 · 4.60:1
AA on white−12% L
#068380
The quick fox
#04615F · 7.29:1
AAA on white−19% L
#04615F
The quick fox
#08beba · 9.08:1
AA on blackalready passes
#08beba
The quick fox
#08beba · 9.08:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#08beba

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #07A5A2 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
#08beba on white: 2.31:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#08beba on black: 9.08:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #08beba as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #08beba.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.31:1AaAa
Slate 502.21:1AaAa
Slate 1002.11:1AaAa
Slate 2001.88:1AaAa
Slate 3001.56:1AaAa
Slate 4001.11:1AaAa
Slate 5002.06:1AaAa
Slate 6003.28:1AaAa
Slate 7004.48:1AaAa
Slate 8006.33:1AaAa
Slate 9007.72:1AaAa
Black9.08:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #B1B4BA
deuteranopia · #9CA4BB
tritanopia · #00C4BC

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. #08beba 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.

#F2FDFD
#E4FBFB
#C3F9F8
#93FAF8
#5EF8F5
#28F6F1
#0AEBE6
#08beba
#079D99
#09716F
#064745
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F2FDFDDarkest = 950 · #064745Text 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 0.031 192.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.049 192.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.074 192.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.096 192.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.114 192.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.123 192.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.123 192.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.116 192.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.104 192.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.086 192.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.068 192.1);
}

Colors that work with #08beba

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#C0EDEC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B99
Captions on the surface
Accent#C20438
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#057A78
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FEFD
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#079C98
One step down in lightness
Pressed#057977
Two steps down
Disabled#85B1B0
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#00DAD6
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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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #08beba

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 #057A78
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #07A5A2

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
  • Weight61/100
  • 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#BE080C
Analogous left#08BE5F
Analogous right#0867BE
Split-complement 1#BE0867
Split-complement 2#BE5F08
Triadic 1#BA08BE
Triadic 2#BEBA08
Tetradic#5F08BE
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°179°

#08beba sits at 179°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red3.1%
Green74.5%
Blue72.9%
R · 0–255
8
0x08
G · 0–255
190
0xbe
B · 0–255
186
0xba

CMYK percentages

Cyan95.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow2.1%
Key (black)25.5%

Total ink coverage is 123%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#08beba text on a black background

contrast 9.08:1

Card sample

#08beba text on a white background

contrast 2.31:1

Card sample

#08beba on grey

2.11:1

#08beba on its own surface

2.19:1

#08beba on its dark surface

6.95:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #08beba;
Background color
Panel with #08beba background
background-color: #08beba;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #08beba;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(8, 190, 186, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(8, 190, 186, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #08beba;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #08beba, #0849BE);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #08beba, #081BBE);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #08beba;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #08beba;
caret-color: #08beba;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #08beba;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FEFD;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #08beba;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#08beba 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #08beba 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(8, 190, 186, 0.5)
rgb(8 190 186 / 50%)
#08beba80
hsl(179 92% 39% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #08beba 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#08beba1a#E6F9F8
20%#08beba33#CEF2F1
40%#08beba66#9CE5E3
60%#08beba99#6BD8D6
80%#08bebacc#39CBC8

Gradients from #08beba

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, #0EF5F0, #08beba 45%, #057A78);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #08beba, #0731A1);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #08beba, #BE080C);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #2CF6F2 0%, #08beba 45%, #057A78 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%, #0AEF64 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #0965DB 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #057A78 0%, transparent 65%), #08beba;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #08beba

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.

#08beba 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 9.08:1.

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.

#08beba, answered

What color is #08beba?

#08beba is a dark electric cyan, closest to Light Sea Green (ΔE2000 3.7). It sits at 179° on the hue wheel with 92% saturation and 39% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #08beba?

rgb(8, 190, 186) — 8 red, 190 green and 186 blue out of 255, or 3.1% / 74.5% / 72.9% by channel.

What is #08beba in HSL and HSV?

hsl(179, 92%, 39%) and hsv(179, 96%, 75%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #08beba a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4042 and perceived brightness is 62%, so black text on it reaches 9.08:1.

Should I use black or white text on #08beba?

Black. It scores 9.08:1 against #08beba, versus 2.31:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #08beba accessible on a white background?

#08beba on white scores 2.31:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #068380 to reach 4.5:1, or #04615F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #08beba?

#BE080C sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #BE0867 and #BE5F08, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #08beba?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDEC for borders, #4B9B99 for secondary text, #C20438 as an accent and #057A78 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #08BE5F and #0867BE stays calm, while #BE080C is the loudest partner.

What is #08beba in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(96%, 0%, 2%, 26%). 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 #08beba warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 87 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #08BE77; nudged cooler, #068FC0.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #08beba?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 5.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #08beba as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #08beba in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#08beba] or text-[#08beba], 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 #08beba with 50% opacity?

rgba(8, 190, 186, 0.5), or #08beba80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #84DFDD; over black, #045F5D.

Is #08beba a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #00CCCC, ΔE2000 3.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #08beba 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 #08beba?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #0EF5F0, #08beba 45%, #057A78). For more colour, a short hue run to #0731A1 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #08beba in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #08beba at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.