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cyan · cool

#33fdbc

a balanced, electric cyan · cool · closest name: Medium Spring Green

Token name suggestion: True Glacier

RGB
51, 253, 188
HSL
161°, 98%, 60%
CMYK
80, 0, 26, 1
Luminance
0.7459

#33fdbc is a balanced electric cyan, 161° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.92:1). As text it scores 1.32:1 on white — use #01865C instead. Nearest name is Medium Spring Green, nearest Tailwind family is green.

hsl(161 98% 60%)rgb(51 253 188)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #33fdbc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#33fdbc
Hue
161°
cyan
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
60%
balanced
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
81%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7459
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
15.92:1
Closest name
Medium Spring Green
ΔE2000 5.7
Chroma
64.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.885
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
green
500 · ΔE 15.9
Web-safe
#33FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue161° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness60%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #33fdbc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool79% 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%
Green94%
Blue5%

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

Every format

HEX#33fdbc
HEX (8-digit)#33fdbcff
RGBrgb(51, 253, 188)
RGBArgba(51, 253, 188, 1)
HSLhsl(161, 98%, 60%)
HSV / HSBhsv(161, 80%, 99%)
HWBhwb(161 20% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(80%, 0%, 26%, 1%)
LABlab(89.2 -62.1 17.8)
LCHlch(89.2 64.6 164.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.885 0.176 165.1)
XYZ (D65)xyz(45.56, 74.58, 59.56)
Decimal3407292
Display P3color(display-p3 0.200 0.992 0.737)
Web-safe#33FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #33fdbc;
background-color: #33fdbc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #33fdbc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#33fdbc] bg-[#33fdbc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #33fdbc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.200, green: 0.992, blue: 0.737)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.200, green: 0.992, blue: 0.737, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#33FDBC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF33FDBC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF33FDBC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(188, 253, 51)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(51, 253, 188)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(51, 253, 188)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 51, 253, 188)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2000f, 0.9922f, 0.7373f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{51,253,188}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #33fdbc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #33fdbc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#017E56, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #33fdbc 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: #F1FDFA;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF4;
  --brand-200: #C1FBE8;
  --brand-300: #90FEDB;
  --brand-400: #58FDC8;
  --brand-500: #33fdbc;
  --brand-600: #02F2A5;
  --brand-700: #02CA8A;
  --brand-800: #02A26E;
  --brand-900: #067451;
  --brand-950: #044933;
  --brand: #33fdbc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDE;
  --brand-hover: #10FDB0;
  --brand-pressed: #02E69D;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDFA',
        100: '#E3FCF4',
        200: '#C1FBE8',
        300: '#90FEDB',
        400: '#58FDC8',
        500: '#33fdbc',
        600: '#02F2A5',
        700: '#02CA8A',
        800: '#02A26E',
        900: '#067451',
        950: '#044933',
        DEFAULT: '#33fdbc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDFA,
  '100': #E3FCF4,
  '200': #C1FBE8,
  '300': #90FEDB,
  '400': #58FDC8,
  '500': #33fdbc,
  '600': #02F2A5,
  '700': #02CA8A,
  '800': #02A26E,
  '900': #067451,
  '950': #044933,
);
$brand-base: #33fdbc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C1FBE8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#90FEDB", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#58FDC8", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#33fdbc", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#02F2A5", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#02CA8A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#02A26E", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#067451", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#044933", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #33fdbc · 15.92:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.32:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.92:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #33fdbc as text scores 1.32:1 on white and 15.92:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #017E56 at 3.86:1.

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
#01865C · 4.60:1
AA on white−33% L
#01865C
The quick fox
#016343 · 7.32:1
AAA on white−40% L
#016343
The quick fox
#33fdbc · 15.92:1
AA on blackalready passes
#33fdbc
The quick fox
#33fdbc · 15.92:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#33fdbc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #02AA74 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
#33fdbc on white: 1.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#33fdbc on black: 15.92:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #33fdbc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #33fdbc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.32:1AaAa
Slate 501.26:1AaAa
Slate 1001.20:1AaAa
Slate 2001.07:1AaAa
Slate 3001.13:1AaAa
Slate 4001.94:1AaAa
Slate 5003.61:1AaAa
Slate 6005.74:1AaAa
Slate 7007.85:1AaAa
Slate 80011.09:1AaAa
Slate 90013.53:1AaAa
Black15.92:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F8EAB8
deuteranopia · #E0D9C0
tritanopia · #00FDEB

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. #33fdbc 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.

#F1FDFA
#E3FCF4
#C1FBE8
#90FEDB
#58FDC8
#33fdbc
#02F2A5
#02CA8A
#02A26E
#067451
#044933
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F1FDFADarkest = 950 · #044933Text 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 0.044 165.1);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.071 165.1);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.106 165.1);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.138 165.1);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.162 165.1);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.176 165.1);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.176 165.1);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.166 165.1);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.148 165.1);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.124 165.1);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.097 165.1);
}

Colors that work with #33fdbc

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#F4FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDDE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B81
Captions on the surface
Accent#FF31A7
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#017E56
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FFF7
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#10FDB0
One step down in lightness
Pressed#02E69D
Two steps down
Disabled#C6DAD4
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#45FFC3
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
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Data
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How to use #33fdbc

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 #017E56
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #02AA74

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
  • Weight40/100
  • 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#FD3374
Analogous left#33FD57
Analogous right#33D9FD
Split-complement 1#FD33D9
Split-complement 2#FD5733
Triadic 1#BC33FD
Triadic 2#FDBC33
Tetradic#5733FD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°161°

#33fdbc sits at 161°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red20.0%
Green99.2%
Blue73.7%
R · 0–255
51
0x33
G · 0–255
253
0xfd
B · 0–255
188
0xbc

CMYK percentages

Cyan79.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow25.7%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 106%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#33fdbc text on a black background

contrast 15.92:1

Card sample

#33fdbc text on a white background

contrast 1.32:1

Card sample

#33fdbc on grey

1.20:1

#33fdbc on its own surface

1.25:1

#33fdbc on its dark surface

12.23:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #33fdbc;
Background color
Panel with #33fdbc background
background-color: #33fdbc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #33fdbc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(51, 253, 188, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(51, 253, 188, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #33fdbc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #33fdbc, #33B7FD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #33fdbc, #3385FD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #33fdbc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #33fdbc;
caret-color: #33fdbc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #33fdbc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FFF7;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #33fdbc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#33fdbc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #33fdbc 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, 253, 188, 0.5)
rgb(51 253 188 / 50%)
#33fdbc80
hsl(161 98% 60% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #33fdbc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#33fdbc1a#EBFFF8
20%#33fdbc33#D6FFF2
40%#33fdbc66#ADFEE4
60%#33fdbc99#85FED7
80%#33fdbccc#5CFDC9

Gradients from #33fdbc

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, #70FED0, #33fdbc 45%, #017E56);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #33fdbc, #1599FD);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #33fdbc, #FD3374);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #8EFEDA 0%, #33fdbc 45%, #017E56 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #65FE74 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #51D0FD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #017E56 0%, transparent 65%), #33fdbc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #33fdbc

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.

#33fdbc 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 15.92:1.

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.

#33fdbc, answered

What color is #33fdbc?

#33fdbc is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Medium Spring Green (ΔE2000 5.7). It sits at 161° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 60% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #33fdbc?

rgb(51, 253, 188) — 51 red, 253 green and 188 blue out of 255, or 20% / 99.2% / 73.7% by channel.

What is #33fdbc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(161, 98%, 60%) and hsv(161, 80%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #33fdbc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7459 and perceived brightness is 81%, so black text on it reaches 15.92:1.

Should I use black or white text on #33fdbc?

Black. It scores 15.92:1 against #33fdbc, versus 1.32:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #33fdbc accessible on a white background?

#33fdbc on white scores 1.32:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #01865C to reach 4.5:1, or #016343 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #33fdbc?

#FD3374 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FD33D9 and #FD5733, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #33fdbc?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDE for borders, #4B9B81 for secondary text, #FF31A7 as an accent and #017E56 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #33FD57 and #33D9FD stays calm, while #FD3374 is the loudest partner.

What is #33fdbc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(80%, 0%, 26%, 1%). 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 #33fdbc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 79 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #33FD72; nudged cooler, #31F6FF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #33fdbc?

The green family — its 500 step is #22c55e, ΔE2000 15.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #33fdbc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #33fdbc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#33fdbc] or text-[#33fdbc], 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 #33fdbc with 50% opacity?

rgba(51, 253, 188, 0.5), or #33fdbc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #99FEDE; over black, #1A7F5E.

Is #33fdbc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FFCC, ΔE2000 3.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #33fdbc 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 #33fdbc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #70FED0, #33fdbc 45%, #017E56). For more colour, a short hue run to #1599FD keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #33fdbc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #33fdbc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.