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#19423b

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

Token name suggestion: Ink Reef

RGB
25, 66, 59
HSL
170°, 45%, 18%
CMYK
62, 0, 11, 74
Luminance
0.0442

#19423b is a deep vivid cyan, 170° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (11.15:1). As text it scores 11.15:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Dark Slate Gray, nearest Tailwind family is neutral.

hsl(170 45% 18%)rgb(25 66 59)Base step 950AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #19423b is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#19423b
Hue
170°
cyan
Saturation
45%
vivid
Lightness
18%
deep
Brightness
26%
HSV value
Perceived
22%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.0442
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
White
11.15:1
Closest name
Dark Slate Gray
ΔE2000 6.7
Chroma
16.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.348
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
neutral
500 · ΔE 25.2
Web-safe
#003333
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue170° of 360°
Saturation45%
Lightness18%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #19423b.

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
Red5%
Green88%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#19423b
HEX (8-digit)#19423bff
RGBrgb(25, 66, 59)
RGBArgba(25, 66, 59, 1)
HSLhsl(170, 45%, 18%)
HSV / HSBhsv(170, 62%, 26%)
HWBhwb(170 10% 74%)
CMYKcmyk(62%, 0%, 11%, 74%)
LABlab(25.0 -16.4 -0.1)
LCHlch(25.0 16.4 180.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.348 0.048 180.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(3.14, 4.42, 4.82)
Decimal1655355
Display P3color(display-p3 0.098 0.259 0.231)
Web-safe#003333

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #19423b;
background-color: #19423b;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #19423b;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#19423b] bg-[#19423b]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #19423b;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.098, green: 0.259, blue: 0.231)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.098, green: 0.259, blue: 0.231, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#19423B</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF19423B)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF19423B)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(59, 66, 25)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(25, 66, 59)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(25, 66, 59)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 25, 66, 59)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.0980f, 0.2588f, 0.2314f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{25,66,59}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #19423b 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #19423b 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#235D53, #D3EEE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #19423b 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: #F5FAF9;
  --brand-100: #EAF5F3;
  --brand-200: #D1EBE7;
  --brand-300: #AEE0D8;
  --brand-400: #85D1C4;
  --brand-500: #5CC1B0;
  --brand-600: #43B29F;
  --brand-700: #389484;
  --brand-800: #2D766A;
  --brand-900: #24574E;
  --brand-950: #19423b;
  --brand: #19423b;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C4E9E2;
  --brand-hover: #0F2824;
  --brand-pressed: #050E0D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF9',
        100: '#EAF5F3',
        200: '#D1EBE7',
        300: '#AEE0D8',
        400: '#85D1C4',
        500: '#5CC1B0',
        600: '#43B29F',
        700: '#389484',
        800: '#2D766A',
        900: '#24574E',
        950: '#19423b',
        DEFAULT: '#19423b',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF9,
  '100': #EAF5F3,
  '200': #D1EBE7,
  '300': #AEE0D8,
  '400': #85D1C4,
  '500': #5CC1B0,
  '600': #43B29F,
  '700': #389484,
  '800': #2D766A,
  '900': #24574E,
  '950': #19423b,
);
$brand-base: #19423b;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D1EBE7", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#AEE0D8", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#85D1C4", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#5CC1B0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#43B29F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#389484", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2D766A", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#24574E", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#19423b", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #19423b · 11.15:1
Use #ffffffAAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 11.15:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Aa
Black text · 1.88:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #19423b as text scores 11.15:1 on white and 1.88:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #ECF8F6 at 10.26:1.

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
#19423b · 11.15:1
AA on whitealready passes
#19423b
The quick fox
#19423b · 11.15:1
AAA on whitealready passes
#19423b
The quick fox
#318173 · 4.52:1
AA on black+17% L
#318173
The quick fox
#3FA694 · 7.09:1
AAA on black+27% L
#3FA694

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #19423B 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
#19423b on white: 11.15:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#19423b on black: 1.88:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #19423b as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #19423b.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White11.15:1AaAa
Slate 5010.65:1AaAa
Slate 10010.18:1AaAa
Slate 2009.04:1AaAa
Slate 3007.51:1AaAa
Slate 4004.35:1AaAa
Slate 5002.34:1AaAa
Slate 6001.47:1AaAa
Slate 7001.08:1AaAa
Slate 8001.31:1AaAa
Slate 9001.60:1AaAa
Black1.88:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #3F3E3B
deuteranopia · #39393C
tritanopia · #014340

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. #19423b is pinned to step 950; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAF9
#EAF5F3
#D1EBE7
#AEE0D8
#85D1C4
#5CC1B0
#43B29F
#389484
#2D766A
#24574E
#19423b
Base = 950Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF9Darkest = 950 · #19423bText step on white = 800
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 0.012 180.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.019 180.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.029 180.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.037 180.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.044 180.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.048 180.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.048 180.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.045 180.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.040 180.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.033 180.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.026 180.5);
}

Colors that work with #19423b

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#F4FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C4E9E2
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8D
Captions on the surface
Accent#44172A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#235D53
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8F6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#0F2824
One step down in lightness
Pressed#050E0D
Two steps down
Disabled#4F7C74
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#19564C
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 #19423b

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
  • Weight82/100
  • 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#421920
Analogous left#194226
Analogous right#193442
Split-complement 1#421934
Split-complement 2#422619
Triadic 1#3B1942
Triadic 2#423B19
Tetradic#261942
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°170°

#19423b sits at 170°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red9.8%
Green25.9%
Blue23.1%
R · 0–255
25
0x19
G · 0–255
66
0x42
B · 0–255
59
0x3b

CMYK percentages

Cyan62.1%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow10.6%
Key (black)74.1%

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

Color previews

#19423b text on a black background

contrast 1.88:1

Card sample

#19423b text on a white background

contrast 11.15:1

Card sample

#19423b on grey

10.18:1

#19423b on its own surface

10.56:1

#19423b on its dark surface

1.44:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #19423b;
Background color
Panel with #19423b background
background-color: #19423b;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #19423b;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(25, 66, 59, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(25, 66, 59, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #19423b;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #19423b, #192E42);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #19423b, #192342);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #19423b;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #19423b;
caret-color: #19423b;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #19423b;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8F6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #19423b;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#19423b 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #19423b 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(25, 66, 59, 0.5)
rgb(25 66 59 / 50%)
#19423b80
hsl(170 45% 18% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #19423b 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#19423b1a#E8ECEB
20%#19423b33#D1D9D8
40%#19423b66#A3B3B1
60%#19423b99#758E89
80%#19423bcc#476862

Gradients from #19423b

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, #2A6E63, #19423b 45%, #235D53);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #19423b, #111C2C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #19423b, #421920);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #328476 0%, #19423b 45%, #235D53 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%, #276737 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #214158 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #235D53 0%, transparent 65%), #19423b;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #19423b

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.

#19423b 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

Very dark values collapse into each other on cheap panels — leave more lightness between your darkest steps than the numbers suggest.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 1.88:1 — lift it to #318173 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.

#19423b, answered

What color is #19423b?

#19423b is a deep vivid cyan, closest to Dark Slate Gray (ΔE2000 6.7). It sits at 170° on the hue wheel with 45% saturation and 18% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #19423b?

rgb(25, 66, 59) — 25 red, 66 green and 59 blue out of 255, or 9.8% / 25.9% / 23.1% by channel.

What is #19423b in HSL and HSV?

hsl(170, 45%, 18%) and hsv(170, 62%, 26%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #19423b a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.0442 and perceived brightness is 22%, so white text on it reaches 11.15:1.

Should I use black or white text on #19423b?

White. It scores 11.15:1 against #19423b, versus 1.88:1 for black — AAA at any size.

Is #19423b accessible on a white background?

#19423b on white scores 11.15:1, which clears AAA at every size.

What is the complementary color of #19423b?

#421920 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #421934 and #422619, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #19423b?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C4E9E2 for borders, #4B9B8D for secondary text, #44172A as an accent and #235D53 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #194226 and #193442 stays calm, while #421920 is the loudest partner.

What is #19423b in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(62%, 0%, 11%, 74%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #19423b 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 #19422C; nudged cooler, #183A43.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #19423b?

The neutral family — its 500 step is #737373, ΔE2000 25.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #19423b as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #19423b in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#19423b] or text-[#19423b], 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 #19423b with 50% opacity?

rgba(25, 66, 59, 0.5), or #19423b80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8CA19D; over black, #0D211E.

Is #19423b a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #003333, ΔE2000 5.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #19423b 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 #19423b?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #2A6E63, #19423b 45%, #235D53). For more colour, a short hue run to #111C2C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #19423b in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #19423b at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.