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#339088

a dark, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Dark Cyan

Token name suggestion: Dusk Lagoon

RGB
51, 144, 136
HSL
175°, 48%, 38%
CMYK
65, 0, 6, 44
Luminance
0.2243

#339088 is a dark vivid cyan, 175° on the wheel and 85/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (5.49:1). As text it scores 3.83:1 on white — large text only. Nearest name is Dark Cyan, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(175 48% 38%)rgb(51 144 136)Base step 700AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #339088 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#339088
Hue
175°
cyan
Saturation
48%
vivid
Lightness
38%
dark
Brightness
56%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.2243
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
85/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
5.49:1
Closest name
Dark Cyan
ΔE2000 4.1
Chroma
29.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.597
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 12.5
Web-safe
#339999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue175° of 360°
Saturation48%
Lightness38%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #339088.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool85% 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
Red3%
Green89%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#339088
HEX (8-digit)#339088ff
RGBrgb(51, 144, 136)
RGBArgba(51, 144, 136, 1)
HSLhsl(175, 48%, 38%)
HSV / HSBhsv(175, 65%, 56%)
HWBhwb(175 20% 44%)
CMYKcmyk(65%, 0%, 6%, 44%)
LABlab(54.5 -29.0 -3.8)
LCHlch(54.5 29.2 187.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.597 0.087 187.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(15.78, 22.43, 26.78)
Decimal3379336
Display P3color(display-p3 0.200 0.565 0.533)
Web-safe#339999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #339088;
background-color: #339088;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #339088;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#339088] bg-[#339088]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #339088;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.200, green: 0.565, blue: 0.533)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.200, green: 0.565, blue: 0.533, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#339088</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF339088)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF339088)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(136, 144, 51)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(51, 144, 136)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(51, 144, 136)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 51, 144, 136)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2000f, 0.5647f, 0.5333f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{51,144,136}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #339088 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #339088 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#215E59, #D3EEEC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #339088 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: #F5FAFA;
  --brand-100: #EAF5F4;
  --brand-200: #D0ECE9;
  --brand-300: #ACE2DD;
  --brand-400: #83D3CC;
  --brand-500: #59C4BB;
  --brand-600: #40B5AB;
  --brand-700: #339088;
  --brand-800: #2B7972;
  --brand-900: #225853;
  --brand-950: #153734;
  --brand: #339088;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C3EAE6;
  --brand-hover: #2A766F;
  --brand-pressed: #205B56;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142423;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAFA',
        100: '#EAF5F4',
        200: '#D0ECE9',
        300: '#ACE2DD',
        400: '#83D3CC',
        500: '#59C4BB',
        600: '#40B5AB',
        700: '#339088',
        800: '#2B7972',
        900: '#225853',
        950: '#153734',
        DEFAULT: '#339088',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAFA,
  '100': #EAF5F4,
  '200': #D0ECE9,
  '300': #ACE2DD,
  '400': #83D3CC,
  '500': #59C4BB,
  '600': #40B5AB,
  '700': #339088,
  '800': #2B7972,
  '900': #225853,
  '950': #153734,
);
$brand-base: #339088;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EAF5F4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D0ECE9", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#ACE2DD", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#83D3CC", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#59C4BB", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#40B5AB", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#339088", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#2B7972", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#225853", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#153734", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #339088 · 5.49:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 3.83:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 5.49:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #339088 as text scores 3.83:1 on white and 5.49:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #215E59 at 1.95:1.

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
#2E817A · 4.63:1
AA on white−4% L
#2E817A
The quick fox
#225F5A · 7.36:1
AAA on white−13% L
#225F5A
The quick fox
#339088 · 5.49:1
AA on blackalready passes
#339088
The quick fox
#3BA69D · 7.13:1
AAA on black+6% L
#3BA69D

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #339088 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
#339088 on white: 3.83:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#339088 on black: 5.49:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #339088 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #339088.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White3.83:1AaAa
Slate 503.66:1AaAa
Slate 1003.49:1AaAa
Slate 2003.11:1AaAa
Slate 3002.58:1AaAa
Slate 4001.49:1AaAa
Slate 5001.24:1AaAa
Slate 6001.98:1AaAa
Slate 7002.70:1AaAa
Slate 8003.82:1AaAa
Slate 9004.66:1AaAa
Black5.49:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #888888
deuteranopia · #7A7E89
tritanopia · #00938D

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. #339088 is pinned to step 700; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAFA
#EAF5F4
#D0ECE9
#ACE2DD
#83D3CC
#59C4BB
#40B5AB
#339088
#2B7972
#225853
#153734
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F5FAFADarkest = 950 · #153734Text 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 0.022 187.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 187.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.052 187.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.068 187.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.080 187.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.087 187.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.087 187.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.082 187.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.073 187.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.061 187.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.048 187.1);
}

Colors that work with #339088

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#C3EAE6
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B94
Captions on the surface
Accent#942F51
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#215E59
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#ECF8F7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142423
Dark-mode background
Hover#2A766F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#205B56
Two steps down
Disabled#83B0AC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#2EAA9F
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 #339088

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

Works well for
  • Headings from 24px up on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • 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
  • Small text on white — under 4.5:1
  • 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
24px / 18.66px bold
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #215E59
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
  • Weight62/100
  • 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#90333B
Analogous left#339059
Analogous right#336990
Split-complement 1#903369
Split-complement 2#905933
Triadic 1#883390
Triadic 2#908833
Tetradic#593390
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°175°

#339088 sits at 175°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red20.0%
Green56.5%
Blue53.3%
R · 0–255
51
0x33
G · 0–255
144
0x90
B · 0–255
136
0x88

CMYK percentages

Cyan64.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow5.6%
Key (black)43.5%

Total ink coverage is 114%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#339088 text on a black background

contrast 5.49:1

Card sample

#339088 text on a white background

contrast 3.83:1

Card sample

#339088 on grey

3.49:1

#339088 on its own surface

3.63:1

#339088 on its dark surface

4.20:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #339088;
Background color
Panel with #339088 background
background-color: #339088;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #339088;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(51, 144, 136, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(51, 144, 136, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #339088;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #339088, #335A90);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #339088, #334390);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #339088;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #339088;
caret-color: #339088;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #339088;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #ECF8F7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #339088;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#339088 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #339088 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(51, 144, 136, 0.5)
rgb(51 144 136 / 50%)
#33908880
hsl(175 48% 38% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #339088 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#3390881a#EBF4F3
20%#33908833#D6E9E7
40%#33908866#ADD3CF
60%#33908899#85BCB8
80%#339088cc#5CA6A0

Gradients from #339088

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, #43BDB2, #339088 45%, #215E59);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #339088, #2B4579);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #339088, #90333B);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #5AC5BB 0%, #339088 45%, #215E59 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%, #40B667 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3B71A6 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #215E59 0%, transparent 65%), #339088;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #339088

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.

#339088 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 5.49:1.

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.

#339088, answered

What color is #339088?

#339088 is a dark vivid cyan, closest to Dark Cyan (ΔE2000 4.1). It sits at 175° on the hue wheel with 48% saturation and 38% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #339088?

rgb(51, 144, 136) — 51 red, 144 green and 136 blue out of 255, or 20% / 56.5% / 53.3% by channel.

What is #339088 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(175, 48%, 38%) and hsv(175, 65%, 56%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #339088 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.2243 and perceived brightness is 48%, so black text on it reaches 5.49:1.

Should I use black or white text on #339088?

Black. It scores 5.49:1 against #339088, versus 3.83:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #339088 accessible on a white background?

#339088 on white scores 3.83:1, which only clears AA for large text — 18.66px bold or 24px regular and up. Darken it to #2E817A to reach 4.5:1, or #225F5A for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #339088?

#90333B sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #903369 and #905933, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #339088?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C3EAE6 for borders, #4B9B94 for secondary text, #942F51 as an accent and #215E59 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #339059 and #336990 stays calm, while #90333B is the loudest partner.

What is #339088 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(65%, 0%, 6%, 44%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #339088 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 85 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #339066; nudged cooler, #317792.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #339088?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 12.5 away. That is a visible difference, so define #339088 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #339088 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#339088] or text-[#339088], 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 #339088 with 50% opacity?

rgba(51, 144, 136, 0.5), or #33908880 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #99C8C4; over black, #1A4844.

Is #339088 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #339999, ΔE2000 4.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #339088 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 #339088?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #43BDB2, #339088 45%, #215E59). For more colour, a short hue run to #2B4579 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #339088 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #339088 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.