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#11615f

a deep, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Dark Slate Gray

Token name suggestion: Ink Glacier

RGB
17, 97, 95
HSL
179°, 70%, 22%
CMYK
83, 0, 2, 62
Luminance
0.0949

#11615f is a deep vivid cyan, 179° on the wheel and 87/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (7.24:1). As text it scores 7.24:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Gray, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(179 70% 22%)rgb(17 97 95)Base step 900AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #11615f is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#11615f
Hue
179°
cyan
Saturation
70%
vivid
Lightness
22%
deep
Brightness
38%
HSV value
Perceived
32%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0949
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
87/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
7.24:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Gray
ΔE2000 8.7
Chroma
23.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.448
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 21.9
Web-safe
#006666
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue179° of 360°
Saturation70%
Lightness22%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #11615f.

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
Red1%
Green90%
Blue9%

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

Every format

HEX#11615f
HEX (8-digit)#11615fff
RGBrgb(17, 97, 95)
RGBArgba(17, 97, 95, 1)
HSLhsl(179, 70%, 22%)
HSV / HSBhsv(179, 82%, 38%)
HWBhwb(179 7% 62%)
CMYKcmyk(83%, 0%, 2%, 62%)
LABlab(36.9 -22.9 -5.5)
LCHlch(36.9 23.5 193.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.448 0.072 192.3)
XYZ (D65)xyz(6.57, 9.49, 12.31)
Decimal1139039
Display P3color(display-p3 0.067 0.380 0.373)
Web-safe#006666

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #11615f;
background-color: #11615f;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #11615f;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#11615f] bg-[#11615f]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #11615f;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.067, green: 0.380, blue: 0.373)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.067, green: 0.380, blue: 0.373, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#11615F</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF11615F)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF11615F)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(95, 97, 17)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(17, 97, 95)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(17, 97, 95)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 17, 97, 95)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0667f, 0.3804f, 0.3725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{17,97,95}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #11615f 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #11615f 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#136D6A, #D3EEED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #11615f 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: #F3FCFB;
  --brand-100: #E7F8F8;
  --brand-200: #C9F2F1;
  --brand-300: #A0EEEC;
  --brand-400: #70E6E3;
  --brand-500: #40DEDA;
  --brand-600: #24D0CC;
  --brand-700: #1EAEAA;
  --brand-800: #188B88;
  --brand-900: #11615f;
  --brand-950: #0E3F3E;
  --brand: #11615f;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDEC;
  --brand-hover: #0C4341;
  --brand-pressed: #062424;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCFB',
        100: '#E7F8F8',
        200: '#C9F2F1',
        300: '#A0EEEC',
        400: '#70E6E3',
        500: '#40DEDA',
        600: '#24D0CC',
        700: '#1EAEAA',
        800: '#188B88',
        900: '#11615f',
        950: '#0E3F3E',
        DEFAULT: '#11615f',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCFB,
  '100': #E7F8F8,
  '200': #C9F2F1,
  '300': #A0EEEC,
  '400': #70E6E3,
  '500': #40DEDA,
  '600': #24D0CC,
  '700': #1EAEAA,
  '800': #188B88,
  '900': #11615f,
  '950': #0E3F3E,
);
$brand-base: #11615f;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F8F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C9F2F1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A0EEEC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#70E6E3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#40DEDA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#24D0CC", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1EAEAA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#188B88", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#11615f", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0E3F3E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$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#ffffff on #11615f · 7.24:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 7.24:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 2.90:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #11615f as text scores 7.24:1 on white and 2.90:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #E9FBFB at 6.78:1.

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
#11615f · 7.24:1
AA on whitealready passes
#11615f
The quick fox
#11615f · 7.24:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#11615f
The quick fox
#178481 · 4.65:1
AA on black+8% L
#178481
The quick fox
#1DA7A3 · 7.11:1
AAA on black+16% L
#1DA7A3

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #11615F 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
#11615f on white: 7.24:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#11615f on black: 2.90:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #11615f as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #11615f.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White7.24:1AaAa
Slate 506.92:1AaAa
Slate 1006.61:1AaAa
Slate 2005.88:1AaAa
Slate 3004.88:1AaAa
Slate 4002.83:1AaAa
Slate 5001.52:1AaAa
Slate 6001.05:1AaAa
Slate 7001.43:1AaAa
Slate 8002.02:1AaAa
Slate 9002.46:1AaAa
Black2.90:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #5A5C5F
deuteranopia · #4F5360
tritanopia · #006460

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. #11615f is pinned to step 900; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FCFB
#E7F8F8
#C9F2F1
#A0EEEC
#70E6E3
#40DEDA
#24D0CC
#1EAEAA
#188B88
#11615f
#0E3F3E
Base = 900Lightest = 50 · #F3FCFBDarkest = 950 · #0E3F3EText 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 0.018 192.3);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.029 192.3);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.043 192.3);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.056 192.3);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.066 192.3);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.072 192.3);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.072 192.3);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.067 192.3);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.060 192.3);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.050 192.3);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.039 192.3);
}

Colors that work with #11615f

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

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDEC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B99
Captions on the surface
Accent#640F26
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#136D6A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FBFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#0C4341
One step down in lightness
Pressed#062424
Two steps down
Disabled#588A89
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#0D7977
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #11615f

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • 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 on black or near-black surfaces
  • 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
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. 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
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight78/100
  • 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#611113
Analogous left#116137
Analogous right#113B61
Split-complement 1#61113B
Split-complement 2#613711
Triadic 1#5F1161
Triadic 2#615F11
Tetradic#371161
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°179°

#11615f sits at 179°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red6.7%
Green38.0%
Blue37.3%
R · 0–255
17
0x11
G · 0–255
97
0x61
B · 0–255
95
0x5f

CMYK percentages

Cyan82.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow2.1%
Key (black)62.0%

Total ink coverage is 147%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#11615f text on a black background

contrast 2.90:1

Card sample

#11615f text on a white background

contrast 7.24:1

Card sample

#11615f on grey

6.61:1

#11615f on its own surface

6.86:1

#11615f on its dark surface

2.22:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #11615f;
Background color
Panel with #11615f background
background-color: #11615f;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #11615f;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(17, 97, 95, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(17, 97, 95, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #11615f;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #11615f, #112E61);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #11615f, #111A61);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #11615f;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #11615f;
caret-color: #11615f;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #11615f;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FBFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #11615f;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#11615f 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #11615f 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(17, 97, 95, 0.5)
rgb(17 97 95 / 50%)
#11615f80
hsl(179 70% 22% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #11615f 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#11615f1a#E7EFEF
20%#11615f33#CFDFDF
40%#11615f66#A0C0BF
60%#11615f99#70A09F
80%#11615fcc#41817F

Gradients from #11615f

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, #1A9592, #11615f 45%, #136D6A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #11615f, #0C1D47);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #11615f, #611113);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #1FAFAC 0%, #11615f 45%, #136D6A 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%, #198D46 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #16427B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #136D6A 0%, transparent 65%), #11615f;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #11615f

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.

#11615f 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

Converts to four-color process without much drama. Proof it anyway.

On screens

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

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 2.90:1 — lift it to #178481 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

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.

#11615f, answered

What color is #11615f?

#11615f is a deep vivid cyan, closest to Dark Slate Gray (ΔE2000 8.7). It sits at 179° on the hue wheel with 70% saturation and 22% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #11615f?

rgb(17, 97, 95) — 17 red, 97 green and 95 blue out of 255, or 6.7% / 38% / 37.3% by channel.

What is #11615f in HSL and HSV?

hsl(179, 70%, 22%) and hsv(179, 82%, 38%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #11615f a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0949 and perceived brightness is 32%, so white text on it reaches 7.24:1.

Should I use black or white text on #11615f?

White. It scores 7.24:1 against #11615f, versus 2.90:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #11615f accessible on a white background?

#11615f on white scores 7.24:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #11615f?

#611113 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #61113B and #613711, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #11615f?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDEC for borders, #4B9B99 for secondary text, #640F26 as an accent and #136D6A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #116137 and #113B61 stays calm, while #611113 is the loudest partner.

What is #11615f in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(83%, 0%, 2%, 62%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #11615f 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 #116142; nudged cooler, #104662.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #11615f?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 21.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #11615f as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #11615f in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#11615f] or text-[#11615f], 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 #11615f with 50% opacity?

rgba(17, 97, 95, 0.5), or #11615f80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #88B0AF; over black, #093130.

Is #11615f a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #006666, ΔE2000 2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #11615f 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 #11615f?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #1A9592, #11615f 45%, #136D6A). For more colour, a short hue run to #0C1D47 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #11615f in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #11615f at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.