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cyan · cool

#1beccf

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

Token name suggestion: Atlas Lagoon

RGB
27, 236, 207
HSL
172°, 85%, 52%
CMYK
89, 0, 12, 8
Luminance
0.6473

#1beccf is a balanced electric cyan, 172° on the wheel and 84/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.95:1). As text it scores 1.51:1 on white — use #0B8271 instead. Nearest name is Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(172 85% 52%)rgb(27 236 207)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#1beccf
Hue
172°
cyan
Saturation
85%
electric
Lightness
52%
balanced
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6473
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
84/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.95:1
Closest name
Turquoise
ΔE2000 4.6
Chroma
52.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.846
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 12.8
Web-safe
#33FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue172° of 360°
Saturation85%
Lightness52%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool84% 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%
Green93%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#1beccf
HEX (8-digit)#1beccfff
RGBrgb(27, 236, 207)
RGBArgba(27, 236, 207, 1)
HSLhsl(172, 85%, 52%)
HSV / HSBhsv(172, 89%, 93%)
HWBhwb(172 11% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(89%, 0%, 12%, 8%)
LABlab(84.3 -52.6 0.9)
LCHlch(84.3 52.6 179.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.846 0.151 179.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(41.70, 64.72, 69.31)
Decimal1830095
Display P3color(display-p3 0.106 0.925 0.812)
Web-safe#33FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #1beccf;
background-color: #1beccf;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #1beccf;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#1beccf] bg-[#1beccf]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #1beccf;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.106, green: 0.925, blue: 0.812)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.106, green: 0.925, blue: 0.812, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#1BECCF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF1BECCF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF1BECCF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(207, 236, 27)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(27, 236, 207)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(27, 236, 207)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 27, 236, 207)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1059f, 0.9255f, 0.8118f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{27,236,207}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #1beccf 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #1beccf 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0A7667, #D3EEEA);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #1beccf 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: #F2FCFB;
  --brand-100: #E6FAF7;
  --brand-200: #C5F7F0;
  --brand-300: #97F6E9;
  --brand-400: #64F2DE;
  --brand-500: #30EED3;
  --brand-600: #1beccf;
  --brand-700: #10BCA4;
  --brand-800: #0D9784;
  --brand-900: #0E6D60;
  --brand-950: #08443C;
  --brand: #1beccf;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE6;
  --brand-hover: #12D2B7;
  --brand-pressed: #0FB19B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEA;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCFB',
        100: '#E6FAF7',
        200: '#C5F7F0',
        300: '#97F6E9',
        400: '#64F2DE',
        500: '#30EED3',
        600: '#1beccf',
        700: '#10BCA4',
        800: '#0D9784',
        900: '#0E6D60',
        950: '#08443C',
        DEFAULT: '#1beccf',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCFB,
  '100': #E6FAF7,
  '200': #C5F7F0,
  '300': #97F6E9,
  '400': #64F2DE,
  '500': #30EED3,
  '600': #1beccf,
  '700': #10BCA4,
  '800': #0D9784,
  '900': #0E6D60,
  '950': #08443C,
);
$brand-base: #1beccf;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F2FCFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E6FAF7", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5F7F0", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#97F6E9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#64F2DE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#30EED3", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#1beccf", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#10BCA4", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0D9784", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0E6D60", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#08443C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #1beccf · 13.95:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.51:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.95:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #1beccf as text scores 1.51:1 on white and 13.95:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0A7667 at 3.67:1.

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
#0B8271 · 4.72:1
AA on white−24% L
#0B8271
The quick fox
#086155 · 7.36:1
AAA on white−31% L
#086155
The quick fox
#1beccf · 13.95:1
AA on blackalready passes
#1beccf
The quick fox
#1beccf · 13.95:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#1beccf

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0EA38E 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
#1beccf on white: 1.51:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#1beccf on black: 13.95:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.51:1AaAa
Slate 501.44:1AaAa
Slate 1001.37:1AaAa
Slate 2001.22:1AaAa
Slate 3001.01:1AaAa
Slate 4001.70:1AaAa
Slate 5003.16:1AaAa
Slate 6005.03:1AaAa
Slate 7006.88:1AaAa
Slate 8009.71:1AaAa
Slate 90011.86:1AaAa
Black13.95:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E2DDCE
deuteranopia · #C9CBD1
tritanopia · #00F0E3

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. #1beccf 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.

#F2FCFB
#E6FAF7
#C5F7F0
#97F6E9
#64F2DE
#30EED3
#1beccf
#10BCA4
#0D9784
#0E6D60
#08443C
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F2FCFBDarkest = 950 · #08443CText 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 0.038 179.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.060 179.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.091 179.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.118 179.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.139 179.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.151 179.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.151 179.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.142 179.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.127 179.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.106 179.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.083 179.4);
}

Colors that work with #1beccf

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#C0EDE6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B90
Captions on the surface
Accent#F1166B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0A7667
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E7FDFA
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#12D2B7
One step down in lightness
Pressed#0FB19B
Two steps down
Disabled#ADCAC6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#23F9DB
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 #1beccf

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 #0A7667
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0EA38E

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 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
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight48/100
  • 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#EC1B38
Analogous left#1BEC67
Analogous right#1BA0EC
Split-complement 1#EC1BA0
Split-complement 2#EC671B
Triadic 1#CF1BEC
Triadic 2#ECCF1B
Tetradic#671BEC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°172°

#1beccf sits at 172°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red10.6%
Green92.5%
Blue81.2%
R · 0–255
27
0x1b
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
207
0xcf

CMYK percentages

Cyan88.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow12.3%
Key (black)7.5%

Total ink coverage is 108%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#1beccf text on a black background

contrast 13.95:1

Card sample

#1beccf text on a white background

contrast 1.51:1

Card sample

#1beccf on grey

1.37:1

#1beccf on its own surface

1.43:1

#1beccf on its dark surface

10.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(27, 236, 207, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(27, 236, 207, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #1beccf;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #1beccf, #1B7EEC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1beccf, #1B49EC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #1beccf;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #1beccf;
caret-color: #1beccf;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #1beccf;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E7FDFA;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #1beccf;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#1beccf 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #1beccf 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(27, 236, 207, 0.5)
rgb(27 236 207 / 50%)
#1beccf80
hsl(172 85% 52% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #1beccf 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#1beccf1a#E8FDFA
20%#1beccf33#D1FBF5
40%#1beccf66#A4F7EC
60%#1beccf99#76F4E2
80%#1beccfcc#49F0D9

Gradients from #1beccf

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, #54F1DB, #1beccf 45%, #0A7667);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #1beccf, #125ED7);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #1beccf, #EC1B38);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #70F3E1 0%, #1beccf 45%, #0A7667 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%, #4AF078 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #379DEE 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0A7667 0%, transparent 65%), #1beccf;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #1beccf

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.

#1beccf 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 13.95:1.

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.

#1beccf, answered

What color is #1beccf?

#1beccf is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Turquoise (ΔE2000 4.6). It sits at 172° on the hue wheel with 85% saturation and 52% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #1beccf?

rgb(27, 236, 207) — 27 red, 236 green and 207 blue out of 255, or 10.6% / 92.5% / 81.2% by channel.

What is #1beccf in HSL and HSV?

hsl(172, 85%, 52%) and hsv(172, 89%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #1beccf a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6473 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 13.95:1.

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

Black. It scores 13.95:1 against #1beccf, versus 1.51:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #1beccf accessible on a white background?

#1beccf on white scores 1.51:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0B8271 to reach 4.5:1, or #086155 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #1beccf?

#EC1B38 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EC1BA0 and #EC671B, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #1beccf?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE6 for borders, #4B9B90 for secondary text, #F1166B as an accent and #0A7667 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #1BEC67 and #1BA0EC stays calm, while #EC1B38 is the loudest partner.

What is #1beccf in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(89%, 0%, 12%, 8%). 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 #1beccf warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 84 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #1BEC83; nudged cooler, #19C5EE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #1beccf?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 12.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #1beccf as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #1beccf in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(27, 236, 207, 0.5), or #1beccf80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #8DF6E7; over black, #0E7668.

Is #1beccf a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FFCC, ΔE2000 6.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #1beccf 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 #1beccf?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #54F1DB, #1beccf 45%, #0A7667). For more colour, a short hue run to #125ED7 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #1beccf in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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