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#0eb08f

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

Token name suggestion: Slate Lagoon

RGB
14, 176, 143
HSL
168°, 85%, 37%
CMYK
92, 0, 19, 31
Luminance
0.3313

#0eb08f is a dark electric cyan, 168° on the wheel and 82/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.63:1). As text it scores 2.75:1 on white — use #0B866D instead. Nearest name is Light Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(168 85% 37%)rgb(14 176 143)Base step 700AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #0eb08f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#0eb08f
Hue
168°
cyan
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
37%
dark
Brightness
69%
HSV value
Perceived
56%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3313
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
82/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
7.63:1
Closest name
Light Sea Green
ΔE2000 8.5
Chroma
45.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.676
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 5.6
Web-safe
#009999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue168° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness37%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #0eb08f.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool82% 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%
Green94%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#0eb08f
HEX (8-digit)#0eb08fff
RGBrgb(14, 176, 143)
RGBArgba(14, 176, 143, 1)
HSLhsl(168, 85%, 37%)
HSV / HSBhsv(168, 92%, 69%)
HWBhwb(168 5% 31%)
CMYKcmyk(92%, 0%, 19%, 31%)
LABlab(64.3 -45.3 6.4)
LCHlch(64.3 45.8 171.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.676 0.128 172.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(20.66, 33.12, 31.29)
Decimal962703
Display P3color(display-p3 0.055 0.690 0.561)
Web-safe#009999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #0eb08f;
background-color: #0eb08f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #0eb08f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#0eb08f] bg-[#0eb08f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #0eb08f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.055, green: 0.690, blue: 0.561)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.055, green: 0.690, blue: 0.561, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#0EB08F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF0EB08F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF0EB08F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(143, 176, 14)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(14, 176, 143)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(14, 176, 143)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 14, 176, 143)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0549f, 0.6902f, 0.5608f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{14,176,143}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #0eb08f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #0eb08f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#097660, #D3EEE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #0eb08f 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: #F2FCFA;
  --brand-100: #E5FAF6;
  --brand-200: #C5F7ED;
  --brand-300: #97F7E3;
  --brand-400: #63F3D5;
  --brand-500: #2FEFC8;
  --brand-600: #12E3B8;
  --brand-700: #0eb08f;
  --brand-800: #0C977B;
  --brand-900: #0D6D5A;
  --brand-950: #084438;
  --brand: #0eb08f;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE4;
  --brand-hover: #0B8F74;
  --brand-pressed: #096E59;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCFA',
        100: '#E5FAF6',
        200: '#C5F7ED',
        300: '#97F7E3',
        400: '#63F3D5',
        500: '#2FEFC8',
        600: '#12E3B8',
        700: '#0eb08f',
        800: '#0C977B',
        900: '#0D6D5A',
        950: '#084438',
        DEFAULT: '#0eb08f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCFA,
  '100': #E5FAF6,
  '200': #C5F7ED,
  '300': #97F7E3,
  '400': #63F3D5,
  '500': #2FEFC8,
  '600': #12E3B8,
  '700': #0eb08f,
  '800': #0C977B,
  '900': #0D6D5A,
  '950': #084438,
);
$brand-base: #0eb08f;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E5FAF6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5F7ED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97F7E3", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#63F3D5", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2FEFC8", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#12E3B8", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#0eb08f", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0C977B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0D6D5A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#084438", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #0eb08f · 7.63:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.75:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.63:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #0eb08f as text scores 2.75:1 on white and 7.63:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #097660 at 2.02:1.

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
#0B866D · 4.52:1
AA on white−9% L
#0B866D
The quick fox
#086552 · 7.01:1
AAA on white−16% L
#086552
The quick fox
#0eb08f · 7.63:1
AA on blackalready passes
#0eb08f
The quick fox
#0eb08f · 7.63:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#0eb08f

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0DA788 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
#0eb08f on white: 2.75:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#0eb08f on black: 7.63:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #0eb08f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #0eb08f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.75:1AaAa
Slate 502.63:1AaAa
Slate 1002.51:1AaAa
Slate 2002.23:1AaAa
Slate 3001.85:1AaAa
Slate 4001.07:1AaAa
Slate 5001.73:1AaAa
Slate 6002.75:1AaAa
Slate 7003.76:1AaAa
Slate 8005.31:1AaAa
Slate 9006.48:1AaAa
Black7.63:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #AAA48D
deuteranopia · #989691
tritanopia · #00B2A6

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. #0eb08f 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.

#F2FCFA
#E5FAF6
#C5F7ED
#97F7E3
#63F3D5
#2FEFC8
#12E3B8
#0eb08f
#0C977B
#0D6D5A
#084438
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F2FCFADarkest = 950 · #084438Text 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 0.032 172.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.051 172.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.077 172.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.100 172.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.118 172.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.128 172.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.128 172.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.121 172.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.108 172.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.090 172.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.071 172.7);
}

Colors that work with #0eb08f

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#C0EDE4
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8B
Captions on the surface
Accent#B40A57
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#097660
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FDF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#0B8F74
One step down in lightness
Pressed#096E59
Two steps down
Disabled#80AEA5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#05CEA5
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 #0eb08f

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 #097660
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0DA788

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
  • Weight63/100
  • 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#B00E2F
Analogous left#0EB03E
Analogous right#0E80B0
Split-complement 1#B00E80
Split-complement 2#B03E0E
Triadic 1#8F0EB0
Triadic 2#B08F0E
Tetradic#3E0EB0
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°168°

#0eb08f sits at 168°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red5.5%
Green69.0%
Blue56.1%
R · 0–255
14
0x0e
G · 0–255
176
0xb0
B · 0–255
143
0x8f

CMYK percentages

Cyan92.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow18.7%
Key (black)31.0%

Total ink coverage is 142%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#0eb08f text on a black background

contrast 7.63:1

Card sample

#0eb08f text on a white background

contrast 2.75:1

Card sample

#0eb08f on grey

2.51:1

#0eb08f on its own surface

2.61:1

#0eb08f on its dark surface

5.85:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #0eb08f;
Background color
Panel with #0eb08f background
background-color: #0eb08f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #0eb08f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(14, 176, 143, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(14, 176, 143, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #0eb08f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #0eb08f, #0E65B0);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0eb08f, #0E3CB0);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #0eb08f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #0eb08f;
caret-color: #0eb08f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #0eb08f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FDF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #0eb08f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#0eb08f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #0eb08f 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(14, 176, 143, 0.5)
rgb(14 176 143 / 50%)
#0eb08f80
hsl(168 85% 37% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #0eb08f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#0eb08f1a#E7F7F4
20%#0eb08f33#CFEFE9
40%#0eb08f66#9FDFD2
60%#0eb08f99#6ED0BC
80%#0eb08fcc#3EC0A5

Gradients from #0eb08f

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, #12E9BD, #0eb08f 45%, #097660);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #0eb08f, #0C4994);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #0eb08f, #B00E2F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #2CEEC7 0%, #0eb08f 45%, #097660 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%, #12DF3E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #1085CD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #097660 0%, transparent 65%), #0eb08f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #0eb08f

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.

#0eb08f 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 7.63:1.

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.

#0eb08f, answered

What color is #0eb08f?

#0eb08f is a dark electric cyan, closest to Light Sea Green (ΔE2000 8.5). It sits at 168° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 37% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #0eb08f?

rgb(14, 176, 143) — 14 red, 176 green and 143 blue out of 255, or 5.5% / 69% / 56.1% by channel.

What is #0eb08f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(168, 85%, 37%) and hsv(168, 92%, 69%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #0eb08f a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3313 and perceived brightness is 56%, so black text on it reaches 7.63:1.

Should I use black or white text on #0eb08f?

Black. It scores 7.63:1 against #0eb08f, versus 2.75:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #0eb08f accessible on a white background?

#0eb08f on white scores 2.75:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0B866D to reach 4.5:1, or #086552 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #0eb08f?

#B00E2F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #B00E80 and #B03E0E, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #0eb08f?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE4 for borders, #4B9B8B for secondary text, #B40A57 as an accent and #097660 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #0EB03E and #0E80B0 stays calm, while #B00E2F is the loudest partner.

What is #0eb08f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(92%, 0%, 19%, 31%). 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 #0eb08f warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 82 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #0EB054; nudged cooler, #0C97B2.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #0eb08f?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 5.6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #0eb08f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #0eb08f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#0eb08f] or text-[#0eb08f], 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 #0eb08f with 50% opacity?

rgba(14, 176, 143, 0.5), or #0eb08f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #87D8C7; over black, #075848.

Is #0eb08f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #009999, ΔE2000 13 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #0eb08f 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 #0eb08f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #12E9BD, #0eb08f 45%, #097660). For more colour, a short hue run to #0C4994 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #0eb08f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #0eb08f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.