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#1fd8ce

a balanced, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Signal Lagoon

RGB
31, 216, 206
HSL
177°, 75%, 48%
CMYK
86, 0, 5, 15
Luminance
0.5386

#1fd8ce is a balanced vivid cyan, 177° on the wheel and 86/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.77:1). As text it scores 1.78:1 on white — use #13837D instead. Nearest name is Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(177 75% 48%)rgb(31 216 206)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #1fd8ce is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#1fd8ce
Hue
177°
cyan
Saturation
75%
vivid
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
85%
HSV value
Perceived
71%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5386
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
86/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
11.77:1
Closest name
Turquoise
ΔE2000 2.8
Chroma
44.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.797
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 8.9
Web-safe
#33CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue177° of 360°
Saturation75%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #1fd8ce.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool86% 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%
Green91%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#1fd8ce
HEX (8-digit)#1fd8ceff
RGBrgb(31, 216, 206)
RGBArgba(31, 216, 206, 1)
HSLhsl(177, 75%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(177, 86%, 85%)
HWBhwb(177 12% 15%)
CMYKcmyk(86%, 0%, 5%, 15%)
LABlab(78.4 -44.2 -7.3)
LCHlch(78.4 44.8 189.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.797 0.134 188.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(36.26, 53.85, 66.86)
Decimal2087118
Display P3color(display-p3 0.122 0.847 0.808)
Web-safe#33CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #1fd8ce;
background-color: #1fd8ce;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #1fd8ce;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#1fd8ce] bg-[#1fd8ce]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #1fd8ce;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.122, green: 0.847, blue: 0.808)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.122, green: 0.847, blue: 0.808, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#1FD8CE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF1FD8CE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF1FD8CE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(206, 216, 31)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(31, 216, 206)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(31, 216, 206)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 31, 216, 206)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1216f, 0.8471f, 0.8078f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{31,216,206}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #1fd8ce 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #1fd8ce 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#106F6A, #D3EEED);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #1fd8ce 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: #E7F9F8;
  --brand-200: #C8F4F1;
  --brand-300: #9DF1EC;
  --brand-400: #6CEAE3;
  --brand-500: #3BE3DA;
  --brand-600: #1fd8ce;
  --brand-700: #1AB2AA;
  --brand-800: #148F88;
  --brand-900: #136763;
  --brand-950: #0C413E;
  --brand: #1fd8ce;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDEA;
  --brand-hover: #1AB9B0;
  --brand-pressed: #169992;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142424;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEED;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FCFB',
        100: '#E7F9F8',
        200: '#C8F4F1',
        300: '#9DF1EC',
        400: '#6CEAE3',
        500: '#3BE3DA',
        600: '#1fd8ce',
        700: '#1AB2AA',
        800: '#148F88',
        900: '#136763',
        950: '#0C413E',
        DEFAULT: '#1fd8ce',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FCFB,
  '100': #E7F9F8,
  '200': #C8F4F1,
  '300': #9DF1EC,
  '400': #6CEAE3,
  '500': #3BE3DA,
  '600': #1fd8ce,
  '700': #1AB2AA,
  '800': #148F88,
  '900': #136763,
  '950': #0C413E,
);
$brand-base: #1fd8ce;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FCFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F9F8", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C8F4F1", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#9DF1EC", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#6CEAE3", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#3BE3DA", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1fd8ce", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#1AB2AA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#148F88", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#136763", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0C413E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #1fd8ce · 11.77:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.78:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.77:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #1fd8ce as text scores 1.78:1 on white and 11.77:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #106F6A at 3.36:1.

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
#13837D · 4.59:1
AA on white−19% L
#13837D
The quick fox
#0E5F5B · 7.48:1
AAA on white−27% L
#0E5F5B
The quick fox
#1fd8ce · 11.77:1
AA on blackalready passes
#1fd8ce
The quick fox
#1fd8ce · 11.77:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#1fd8ce

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #17A29B 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
#1fd8ce on white: 1.78:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#1fd8ce on black: 11.77:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #1fd8ce as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #1fd8ce.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.78:1AaAa
Slate 501.71:1AaAa
Slate 1001.63:1AaAa
Slate 2001.45:1AaAa
Slate 3001.20:1AaAa
Slate 4001.44:1AaAa
Slate 5002.67:1AaAa
Slate 6004.25:1AaAa
Slate 7005.80:1AaAa
Slate 8008.20:1AaAa
Slate 90010.01:1AaAa
Black11.77:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #CBCCCE
deuteranopia · #B4BBCF
tritanopia · #00DED5

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. #1fd8ce is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FCFB
#E7F9F8
#C8F4F1
#9DF1EC
#6CEAE3
#3BE3DA
#1fd8ce
#1AB2AA
#148F88
#136763
#0C413E
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F3FCFBDarkest = 950 · #0C413EText 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 0.034 188.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.054 188.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.081 188.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.105 188.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.124 188.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.134 188.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.134 188.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.126 188.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.113 188.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.094 188.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.074 188.8);
}

Colors that work with #1fd8ce

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#C0EDEA
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B97
Captions on the surface
Accent#DD1A55
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#106F6A
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FCFB
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142424
Dark-mode background
Hover#1AB9B0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#169992
Two steps down
Disabled#A3C4C2
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#1FEDE2
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 #1fd8ce

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
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • 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 #106F6A
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #17A29B

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 mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • Weight52/100
  • 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#D81F29
Analogous left#1FD872
Analogous right#1F85D8
Split-complement 1#D81F85
Split-complement 2#D8721F
Triadic 1#CE1FD8
Triadic 2#D8CE1F
Tetradic#721FD8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°177°

#1fd8ce sits at 177°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red12.2%
Green84.7%
Blue80.8%
R · 0–255
31
0x1f
G · 0–255
216
0xd8
B · 0–255
206
0xce

CMYK percentages

Cyan85.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow4.6%
Key (black)15.3%

Total ink coverage is 105%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#1fd8ce text on a black background

contrast 11.77:1

Card sample

#1fd8ce text on a white background

contrast 1.78:1

Card sample

#1fd8ce on grey

1.63:1

#1fd8ce on its own surface

1.69:1

#1fd8ce on its dark surface

9.00:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #1fd8ce;
Background color
Panel with #1fd8ce background
background-color: #1fd8ce;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #1fd8ce;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(31, 216, 206, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(31, 216, 206, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #1fd8ce;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1fd8ce, #1F66D8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1fd8ce, #1F38D8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #1fd8ce;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #1fd8ce;
caret-color: #1fd8ce;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #1fd8ce;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FCFB;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #1fd8ce;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#1fd8ce 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #1fd8ce 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(31, 216, 206, 0.5)
rgb(31 216 206 / 50%)
#1fd8ce80
hsl(177 75% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #1fd8ce 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#1fd8ce1a#E9FBFA
20%#1fd8ce33#D2F7F5
40%#1fd8ce66#A5EFEB
60%#1fd8ce99#79E8E2
80%#1fd8cecc#4CE0D8

Gradients from #1fd8ce

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, #4EE6DE, #1fd8ce 45%, #106F6A);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #1fd8ce, #1B4CBD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1fd8ce, #D81F29);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #69E9E3 0%, #1fd8ce 45%, #106F6A 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%, #45E47F 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3485E2 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #106F6A 0%, transparent 65%), #1fd8ce;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #1fd8ce

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.

#1fd8ce 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

Usable as-is on a dark surface at 11.77:1.

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.

#1fd8ce, answered

What color is #1fd8ce?

#1fd8ce is a balanced vivid cyan, closest to Turquoise (ΔE2000 2.8). It sits at 177° on the hue wheel with 75% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #1fd8ce?

rgb(31, 216, 206) — 31 red, 216 green and 206 blue out of 255, or 12.2% / 84.7% / 80.8% by channel.

What is #1fd8ce in HSL and HSV?

hsl(177, 75%, 48%) and hsv(177, 86%, 85%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #1fd8ce a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5386 and perceived brightness is 71%, so black text on it reaches 11.77:1.

Should I use black or white text on #1fd8ce?

Black. It scores 11.77:1 against #1fd8ce, versus 1.78:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #1fd8ce accessible on a white background?

#1fd8ce on white scores 1.78:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #13837D to reach 4.5:1, or #0E5F5B for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #1fd8ce?

#D81F29 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #D81F85 and #D8721F, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #1fd8ce?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDEA for borders, #4B9B97 for secondary text, #DD1A55 as an accent and #106F6A for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #1FD872 and #1F85D8 stays calm, while #D81F29 is the loudest partner.

What is #1fd8ce in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(86%, 0%, 5%, 15%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #1fd8ce warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 86 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #1FD88A; nudged cooler, #1DABDA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #1fd8ce?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 8.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #1fd8ce as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #1fd8ce in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#1fd8ce] or text-[#1fd8ce], 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 #1fd8ce with 50% opacity?

rgba(31, 216, 206, 0.5), or #1fd8ce80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8FECE7; over black, #106C67.

Is #1fd8ce a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33CCCC, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #1fd8ce 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 #1fd8ce?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #4EE6DE, #1fd8ce 45%, #106F6A). For more colour, a short hue run to #1B4CBD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #1fd8ce in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #1fd8ce at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.