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cyan · cool

#357d71

a dark, soft cyan · cool · closest name: Teal

Token name suggestion: Shadow Glacier

RGB
53, 125, 113
HSL
170°, 40%, 35%
CMYK
58, 0, 10, 51
Luminance
0.1662

#357d71 is a dark soft cyan, 170° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (4.86:1). As text it scores 4.86:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Teal, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(170 40% 35%)rgb(53 125 113)Base step 800AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #357d71 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#357d71
Hue
170°
cyan
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
35%
dark
Brightness
49%
HSV value
Perceived
42%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1662
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
White
4.86:1
Closest name
Teal
ΔE2000 5.8
Chroma
25.6
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.540
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 19.1
Web-safe
#336666
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue170° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness35%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #357d71.

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
Red5%
Green88%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#357d71
HEX (8-digit)#357d71ff
RGBrgb(53, 125, 113)
RGBArgba(53, 125, 113, 1)
HSLhsl(170, 40%, 35%)
HSV / HSBhsv(170, 58%, 49%)
HWBhwb(170 21% 51%)
CMYKcmyk(58%, 0%, 10%, 51%)
LABlab(47.8 -25.6 -0.2)
LCHlch(47.8 25.6 180.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.540 0.074 180.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(11.78, 16.62, 18.21)
Decimal3505521
Display P3color(display-p3 0.208 0.490 0.443)
Web-safe#336666

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #357d71;
background-color: #357d71;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #357d71;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#357d71] bg-[#357d71]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #357d71;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.208, green: 0.490, blue: 0.443)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.208, green: 0.490, blue: 0.443, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#357D71</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF357D71)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF357D71)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(113, 125, 53)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(53, 125, 113)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(53, 125, 113)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 53, 125, 113)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2078f, 0.4902f, 0.4431f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{53,125,113}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #357d71 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #357d71 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#265A51, #D4EDE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #357d71 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: #F5FAF9;
  --brand-100: #EBF5F3;
  --brand-200: #D2EAE6;
  --brand-300: #B0DED6;
  --brand-400: #89CDC2;
  --brand-500: #61BCAD;
  --brand-600: #49AC9B;
  --brand-700: #3D8F81;
  --brand-800: #357d71;
  --brand-900: #26544C;
  --brand-950: #183430;
  --brand: #357d71;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C6E7E1;
  --brand-hover: #2A645A;
  --brand-pressed: #204B44;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142422;
    --brand-ink: #D4EDE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF9',
        100: '#EBF5F3',
        200: '#D2EAE6',
        300: '#B0DED6',
        400: '#89CDC2',
        500: '#61BCAD',
        600: '#49AC9B',
        700: '#3D8F81',
        800: '#357d71',
        900: '#26544C',
        950: '#183430',
        DEFAULT: '#357d71',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF9,
  '100': #EBF5F3,
  '200': #D2EAE6,
  '300': #B0DED6,
  '400': #89CDC2,
  '500': #61BCAD,
  '600': #49AC9B,
  '700': #3D8F81,
  '800': #357d71,
  '900': #26544C,
  '950': #183430,
);
$brand-base: #357d71;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF5F3", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2EAE6", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B0DED6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#89CDC2", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#61BCAD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#49AC9B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3D8F81", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#357d71", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#26544C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#183430", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$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#ffffff on #357d71 · 4.86:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.86:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.32:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #357d71 as text scores 4.86:1 on white and 4.32:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #EDF7F6 at 4.45:1.

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
#357d71 · 4.86:1
AA on whitealready passes
#357d71
The quick fox
#296057 · 7.23:1
AAA on white−8% L
#296057
The quick fox
#378174 · 4.55:1
AA on black+1% L
#378174
The quick fox
#46A495 · 7.00:1
AAA on black+11% L
#46A495

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #357D71 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
#357d71 on white: 4.86:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#357d71 on black: 4.32:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #357d71 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #357d71.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.86:1AaAa
Slate 504.64:1AaAa
Slate 1004.43:1AaAa
Slate 2003.94:1AaAa
Slate 3003.27:1AaAa
Slate 4001.89:1AaAa
Slate 5001.02:1AaAa
Slate 6001.56:1AaAa
Slate 7002.13:1AaAa
Slate 8003.01:1AaAa
Slate 9003.68:1AaAa
Black4.32:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #787671
deuteranopia · #6D6E72
tritanopia · #007F79

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. #357d71 is pinned to step 800; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAF9
#EBF5F3
#D2EAE6
#B0DED6
#89CDC2
#61BCAD
#49AC9B
#3D8F81
#357d71
#26544C
#183430
Base = 800Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF9Darkest = 950 · #183430Text 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 0.019 180.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.030 180.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.045 180.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.058 180.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.069 180.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.074 180.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.074 180.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.070 180.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.063 180.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.052 180.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.041 180.8);
}

Colors that work with #357d71

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F4FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#C6E7E1
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8E
Captions on the surface
Accent#813152
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#265A51
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF7F6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142422
Dark-mode background
Hover#2A645A
One step down in lightness
Pressed#204B44
Two steps down
Disabled#79A9A1
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#319585
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 #357d71

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Headers, footers and dark-mode surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • 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
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
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.

The muted chroma softens the association — it reads considered rather than loud, which suits long-form and data-heavy screens. 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
  • Weight65/100
  • 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#7D3541
Analogous left#357D4D
Analogous right#35657D
Split-complement 1#7D3565
Split-complement 2#7D4D35
Triadic 1#71357D
Triadic 2#7D7135
Tetradic#4D357D
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°170°

#357d71 sits at 170°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red20.8%
Green49.0%
Blue44.3%
R · 0–255
53
0x35
G · 0–255
125
0x7d
B · 0–255
113
0x71

CMYK percentages

Cyan57.6%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.6%
Key (black)51.0%

Total ink coverage is 118%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#357d71 text on a black background

contrast 4.32:1

Card sample

#357d71 text on a white background

contrast 4.86:1

Card sample

#357d71 on grey

4.43:1

#357d71 on its own surface

4.60:1

#357d71 on its dark surface

3.31:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #357d71;
Background color
Panel with #357d71 background
background-color: #357d71;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #357d71;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(53, 125, 113, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(53, 125, 113, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #357d71;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #357d71, #35597D);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #357d71, #35477D);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #357d71;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #357d71;
caret-color: #357d71;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #357d71;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF7F6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #357d71;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#357d71 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #357d71 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(53, 125, 113, 0.5)
rgb(53 125 113 / 50%)
#357d7180
hsl(170 40% 35% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #357d71 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#357d711a#EBF2F1
20%#357d7133#D7E5E3
40%#357d7166#AECBC6
60%#357d7199#86B1AA
80%#357d71cc#5D978D

Gradients from #357d71

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, #47A898, #357d71 45%, #265A51);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #357d71, #2C4567);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #357d71, #7D3541);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #56B7A7 0%, #357d71 45%, #265A51 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%, #44A15B 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #3E6F92 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #265A51 0%, transparent 65%), #357d71;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #357d71

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.

#357d71 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

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.32:1 — lift it to #378174 for body text, or reserve it for fills.

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.

#357d71, answered

What color is #357d71?

#357d71 is a dark soft cyan, closest to Teal (ΔE2000 5.8). It sits at 170° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 35% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #357d71?

rgb(53, 125, 113) — 53 red, 125 green and 113 blue out of 255, or 20.8% / 49% / 44.3% by channel.

What is #357d71 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(170, 40%, 35%) and hsv(170, 58%, 49%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #357d71 a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1662 and perceived brightness is 42%, so white text on it reaches 4.86:1.

Should I use black or white text on #357d71?

White. It scores 4.86:1 against #357d71, versus 4.32:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #357d71 accessible on a white background?

#357d71 on white scores 4.86:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #357d71?

#7D3541 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #7D3565 and #7D4D35, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #357d71?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C6E7E1 for borders, #4B9B8E for secondary text, #813152 as an accent and #265A51 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #357D4D and #35657D stays calm, while #7D3541 is the loudest partner.

What is #357d71 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(58%, 0%, 10%, 51%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #357d71 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 #357D57; nudged cooler, #33707F.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #357d71?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 19.1 away. That is a visible difference, so define #357d71 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #357d71 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#357d71] or text-[#357d71], 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 #357d71 with 50% opacity?

rgba(53, 125, 113, 0.5), or #357d7180 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #9ABEB8; over black, #1B3F39.

Is #357d71 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #336666, ΔE2000 9.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #357d71 mean?

As a cyan, it reads clean, technical, fresh. Cyan reads as water, air and infrastructure: cool, hygienic, engineered. At this moderate chroma the association is present but not shouted.

What gradient works with #357d71?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #47A898, #357d71 45%, #265A51). For more colour, a short hue run to #2C4567 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #357d71 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #357d71 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.