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cyan · cool

#2cecc7

a balanced, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Atlas Lagoon

RGB
44, 236, 199
HSL
168°, 84%, 55%
CMYK
81, 0, 16, 8
Luminance
0.6465

#2cecc7 is a balanced electric cyan, 168° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.93:1). As text it scores 1.51:1 on white — use #0C836C instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(168 84% 55%)rgb(44 236 199)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #2cecc7 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#2cecc7
Hue
168°
cyan
Saturation
84%
electric
Lightness
55%
balanced
Brightness
93%
HSV value
Perceived
76%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6465
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
13.93:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 6.3
Chroma
53.7
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.846
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 13.3
Web-safe
#33FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue168° of 360°
Saturation84%
Lightness55%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #2cecc7.

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
Red1%
Green93%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#2cecc7
HEX (8-digit)#2cecc7ff
RGBrgb(44, 236, 199)
RGBArgba(44, 236, 199, 1)
HSLhsl(168, 84%, 55%)
HSV / HSBhsv(168, 81%, 93%)
HWBhwb(168 17% 7%)
CMYKcmyk(81%, 0%, 16%, 8%)
LABlab(84.3 -53.5 5.1)
LCHlch(84.3 53.7 174.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.846 0.152 175.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(41.34, 64.64, 64.32)
Decimal2944199
Display P3color(display-p3 0.173 0.925 0.780)
Web-safe#33FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #2cecc7;
background-color: #2cecc7;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #2cecc7;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#2cecc7] bg-[#2cecc7]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #2cecc7;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.173, green: 0.925, blue: 0.780)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.173, green: 0.925, blue: 0.780, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#2CECC7</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF2CECC7)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF2CECC7)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(199, 236, 44)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(44, 236, 199)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(44, 236, 199)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 44, 236, 199)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.1725f, 0.9255f, 0.7804f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{44,236,199}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #2cecc7 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #2cecc7 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#0B7560, #D3EEE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #2cecc7 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: #E6FAF6;
  --brand-200: #C5F6ED;
  --brand-300: #98F6E4;
  --brand-400: #65F1D6;
  --brand-500: #2cecc7;
  --brand-600: #14E1B9;
  --brand-700: #11BB9A;
  --brand-800: #0D967B;
  --brand-900: #0E6C5A;
  --brand-950: #094438;
  --brand: #2cecc7;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE4;
  --brand-hover: #14E0B9;
  --brand-pressed: #11BF9E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F2FCFA',
        100: '#E6FAF6',
        200: '#C5F6ED',
        300: '#98F6E4',
        400: '#65F1D6',
        500: '#2cecc7',
        600: '#14E1B9',
        700: '#11BB9A',
        800: '#0D967B',
        900: '#0E6C5A',
        950: '#094438',
        DEFAULT: '#2cecc7',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F2FCFA,
  '100': #E6FAF6,
  '200': #C5F6ED,
  '300': #98F6E4,
  '400': #65F1D6,
  '500': #2cecc7,
  '600': #14E1B9,
  '700': #11BB9A,
  '800': #0D967B,
  '900': #0E6C5A,
  '950': #094438,
);
$brand-base: #2cecc7;
$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": "#E6FAF6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C5F6ED", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#98F6E4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#65F1D6", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#2cecc7", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#14E1B9", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#11BB9A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#0D967B", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#0E6C5A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#094438", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #2cecc7 · 13.93:1
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 · 13.93:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #2cecc7 as text scores 1.51:1 on white and 13.93:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #0B7560 at 3.74:1.

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
#0C836C · 4.69:1
AA on white−27% L
#0C836C
The quick fox
#096251 · 7.30:1
AAA on white−34% L
#096251
The quick fox
#2cecc7 · 13.93:1
AA on blackalready passes
#2cecc7
The quick fox
#2cecc7 · 13.93:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#2cecc7

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #0FA88A 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
#2cecc7 on white: 1.51:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#2cecc7 on black: 13.93:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #2cecc7 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #2cecc7.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.51:1AaAa
Slate 501.44:1AaAa
Slate 1001.38:1AaAa
Slate 2001.22:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.70:1AaAa
Slate 5003.16:1AaAa
Slate 6005.03:1AaAa
Slate 7006.87:1AaAa
Slate 8009.70:1AaAa
Slate 90011.84:1AaAa
Black13.93:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E3DCC5
deuteranopia · #CCCBCA
tritanopia · #00EFE1

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. #2cecc7 is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F2FCFA
#E6FAF6
#C5F6ED
#98F6E4
#65F1D6
#2cecc7
#14E1B9
#11BB9A
#0D967B
#0E6C5A
#094438
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F2FCFADarkest = 950 · #094438Text 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 0.038 175.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.061 175.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.091 175.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.119 175.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.140 175.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.152 175.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.152 175.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.143 175.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.128 175.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.106 175.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.084 175.2);
}

Colors that work with #2cecc7

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#F12781
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#0B7560
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E8FDF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#14E0B9
One step down in lightness
Pressed#11BF9E
Two steps down
Disabled#B7D1CC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#34F8D2
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 #2cecc7

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 #0B7560
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #0FA88A

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
  • Weight45/100
  • 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#EC2C51
Analogous left#2CEC67
Analogous right#2CB1EC
Split-complement 1#EC2CB1
Split-complement 2#EC672C
Triadic 1#C72CEC
Triadic 2#ECC72C
Tetradic#672CEC
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°168°

#2cecc7 sits at 168°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red17.3%
Green92.5%
Blue78.0%
R · 0–255
44
0x2c
G · 0–255
236
0xec
B · 0–255
199
0xc7

CMYK percentages

Cyan81.4%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow15.7%
Key (black)7.5%

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

Color previews

#2cecc7 text on a black background

contrast 13.93:1

Card sample

#2cecc7 text on a white background

contrast 1.51:1

Card sample

#2cecc7 on grey

1.38:1

#2cecc7 on its own surface

1.43:1

#2cecc7 on its dark surface

10.68:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #2cecc7;
Background color
Panel with #2cecc7 background
background-color: #2cecc7;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #2cecc7;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(44, 236, 199, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(44, 236, 199, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #2cecc7;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #2cecc7, #2C91EC);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2cecc7, #2C61EC);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #2cecc7;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #2cecc7;
caret-color: #2cecc7;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #2cecc7;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E8FDF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #2cecc7;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#2cecc7 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #2cecc7 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(44, 236, 199, 0.5)
rgb(44 236 199 / 50%)
#2cecc780
hsl(168 84% 55% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #2cecc7 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#2cecc71a#EAFDF9
20%#2cecc733#D5FBF4
40%#2cecc766#ABF7E9
60%#2cecc799#80F4DD
80%#2cecc7cc#56F0D2

Gradients from #2cecc7

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, #64F1D6, #2cecc7 45%, #0B7560);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #2cecc7, #1571E5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #2cecc7, #EC2C51);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #80F4DD 0%, #2cecc7 45%, #0B7560 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%, #5BF07C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #48AEEF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #0B7560 0%, transparent 65%), #2cecc7;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #2cecc7

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.

#2cecc7 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 13.93:1.

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.

#2cecc7, answered

What color is #2cecc7?

#2cecc7 is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 6.3). It sits at 168° on the hue wheel with 84% saturation and 55% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #2cecc7?

rgb(44, 236, 199) — 44 red, 236 green and 199 blue out of 255, or 17.3% / 92.5% / 78% by channel.

What is #2cecc7 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(168, 84%, 55%) and hsv(168, 81%, 93%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #2cecc7 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6465 and perceived brightness is 76%, so black text on it reaches 13.93:1.

Should I use black or white text on #2cecc7?

Black. It scores 13.93:1 against #2cecc7, versus 1.51:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #2cecc7 accessible on a white background?

#2cecc7 on white scores 1.51:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #0C836C to reach 4.5:1, or #096251 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #2cecc7?

#EC2C51 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EC2CB1 and #EC672C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #2cecc7?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE4 for borders, #4B9B8B for secondary text, #F12781 as an accent and #0B7560 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2CEC67 and #2CB1EC stays calm, while #EC2C51 is the loudest partner.

What is #2cecc7 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(81%, 0%, 16%, 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 #2cecc7 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 #2CEC80; nudged cooler, #2ACCEE.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #2cecc7?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 13.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #2cecc7 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #2cecc7 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#2cecc7] or text-[#2cecc7], 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 #2cecc7 with 50% opacity?

rgba(44, 236, 199, 0.5), or #2cecc780 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #96F6E3; over black, #167664.

Is #2cecc7 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FFCC, ΔE2000 4.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #2cecc7 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 #2cecc7?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #64F1D6, #2cecc7 45%, #0B7560). For more colour, a short hue run to #1571E5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #2cecc7 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #2cecc7 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.