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#468074

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

Token name suggestion: Dusk Lagoon

RGB
70, 128, 116
HSL
168°, 29%, 39%
CMYK
45, 0, 9, 50
Luminance
0.1800

#468074 is a dark soft cyan, 168° on the wheel and 77/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (4.60:1). As text it scores 4.56:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Teal, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(168 29% 39%)rgb(70 128 116)Base step 700AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #468074 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#468074
Hue
168°
cyan
Saturation
29%
soft
Lightness
39%
dark
Brightness
50%
HSV value
Perceived
44%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1800
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
77/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
4.60:1
Closest name
Teal
ΔE2000 6.9
Chroma
22.1
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.556
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 18.2
Web-safe
#339966
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue168° of 360°
Saturation29%
Lightness39%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #468074.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool77% 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
Red7%
Green86%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#468074
HEX (8-digit)#468074ff
RGBrgb(70, 128, 116)
RGBArgba(70, 128, 116, 1)
HSLhsl(168, 29%, 39%)
HSV / HSBhsv(168, 45%, 50%)
HWBhwb(168 27% 50%)
CMYKcmyk(45%, 0%, 9%, 50%)
LABlab(49.5 -22.1 0.6)
LCHlch(49.5 22.1 178.4)
OKLCHoklch(0.556 0.064 178.9)
XYZ (D65)xyz(13.40, 18.00, 19.29)
Decimal4620404
Display P3color(display-p3 0.275 0.502 0.455)
Web-safe#339966

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #468074;
background-color: #468074;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #468074;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#468074] bg-[#468074]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #468074;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.275, green: 0.502, blue: 0.455)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.275, green: 0.502, blue: 0.455, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#468074</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF468074)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF468074)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(116, 128, 70)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(70, 128, 116)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(70, 128, 116)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 70, 128, 116)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2745f, 0.5020f, 0.4549f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{70,128,116}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #468074 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #468074 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#2D524B, #D7E9E6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #468074 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: #F6F9F8;
  --brand-100: #ECF3F2;
  --brand-200: #D5E6E3;
  --brand-300: #B6D7D1;
  --brand-400: #92C4B9;
  --brand-500: #6EB0A2;
  --brand-600: #579E8F;
  --brand-700: #468074;
  --brand-800: #3A6A60;
  --brand-900: #2D4E47;
  --brand-950: #1C312C;
  --brand: #468074;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF9;
  --brand-border: #CAE2DD;
  --brand-hover: #39695F;
  --brand-pressed: #2D524A;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D7E9E6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F6F9F8',
        100: '#ECF3F2',
        200: '#D5E6E3',
        300: '#B6D7D1',
        400: '#92C4B9',
        500: '#6EB0A2',
        600: '#579E8F',
        700: '#468074',
        800: '#3A6A60',
        900: '#2D4E47',
        950: '#1C312C',
        DEFAULT: '#468074',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F6F9F8,
  '100': #ECF3F2,
  '200': #D5E6E3,
  '300': #B6D7D1,
  '400': #92C4B9,
  '500': #6EB0A2,
  '600': #579E8F,
  '700': #468074,
  '800': #3A6A60,
  '900': #2D4E47,
  '950': #1C312C,
);
$brand-base: #468074;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F6F9F8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#ECF3F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D5E6E3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B6D7D1", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#92C4B9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6EB0A2", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#579E8F", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#468074", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#3A6A60", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#2D4E47", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#1C312C", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #468074 · 4.60:1
Use #000000AA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 4.56:1
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.60:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #468074 as text scores 4.56:1 on white and 4.60:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #2D524B at 1.90:1.

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
#468074 · 4.56:1
AA on whitealready passes
#468074
The quick fox
#345F56 · 7.20:1
AAA on white−10% L
#345F56
The quick fox
#468074 · 4.60:1
AA on blackalready passes
#468074
The quick fox
#5AA495 · 7.18:1
AAA on black+11% L
#5AA495

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #468074 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
#468074 on white: 4.56:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#468074 on black: 4.60:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #468074 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #468074.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White4.56:1AaAa
Slate 504.36:1AaAa
Slate 1004.17:1AaAa
Slate 2003.70:1AaAa
Slate 3003.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.78:1AaAa
Slate 5001.04:1AaAa
Slate 6001.66:1AaAa
Slate 7002.27:1AaAa
Slate 8003.20:1AaAa
Slate 9003.91:1AaAa
Black4.60:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #7C7A74
deuteranopia · #727375
tritanopia · #30827C

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. #468074 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.

#F6F9F8
#ECF3F2
#D5E6E3
#B6D7D1
#92C4B9
#6EB0A2
#579E8F
#468074
#3A6A60
#2D4E47
#1C312C
Base = 700Lightest = 50 · #F6F9F8Darkest = 950 · #1C312CText step on white = 700
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 0.016 178.9);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.026 178.9);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.039 178.9);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.050 178.9);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.059 178.9);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.064 178.9);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.064 178.9);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.060 178.9);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.054 178.9);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.045 178.9);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.035 178.9);
}

Colors that work with #468074

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#F5FAF9
Tinted page background
Border#CAE2DD
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#519486
Captions on the surface
Accent#844260
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#2D524B
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EFF6F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#39695F
One step down in lightness
Pressed#2D524A
Two steps down
Disabled#85B1A8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#429886
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
Your export is ready

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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #468074

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

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • 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
  • Weight61/100
  • 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#804652
Analogous left#468057
Analogous right#466F80
Split-complement 1#80466F
Split-complement 2#805746
Triadic 1#744680
Triadic 2#807446
Tetradic#574680
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°168°

#468074 sits at 168°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red27.5%
Green50.2%
Blue45.5%
R · 0–255
70
0x46
G · 0–255
128
0x80
B · 0–255
116
0x74

CMYK percentages

Cyan45.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.4%
Key (black)49.8%

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

Color previews

#468074 text on a black background

contrast 4.60:1

Card sample

#468074 text on a white background

contrast 4.56:1

Card sample

#468074 on grey

4.17:1

#468074 on its own surface

4.33:1

#468074 on its dark surface

3.53:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #468074;
Background color
Panel with #468074 background
background-color: #468074;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #468074;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(70, 128, 116, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(70, 128, 116, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #468074;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #468074, #466580);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #468074, #465780);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #468074;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #468074;
caret-color: #468074;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #468074;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EFF6F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #468074;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#468074 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #468074 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(70, 128, 116, 0.5)
rgb(70 128 116 / 50%)
#46807480
hsl(168 29% 39% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #468074 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4680741a#EDF2F1
20%#46807433#DAE6E3
40%#46807466#B5CCC7
60%#46807499#90B3AC
80%#468074cc#6B9990

Gradients from #468074

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, #5DA697, #468074 45%, #2D524B);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #468074, #3B526C);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #468074, #804652);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #71B1A4 0%, #468074 45%, #2D524B 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF9, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #58A167 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #517A94 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #2D524B 0%, transparent 65%), #468074;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #468074

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.

#468074 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 4.60:1.

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.

#468074, answered

What color is #468074?

#468074 is a dark soft cyan, closest to Teal (ΔE2000 6.9). It sits at 168° on the hue wheel with 29% saturation and 39% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #468074?

rgb(70, 128, 116) — 70 red, 128 green and 116 blue out of 255, or 27.5% / 50.2% / 45.5% by channel.

What is #468074 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(168, 29%, 39%) and hsv(168, 45%, 50%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #468074 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.1800 and perceived brightness is 44%, so black text on it reaches 4.60:1.

Should I use black or white text on #468074?

Black. It scores 4.60:1 against #468074, versus 4.56:1 for white — AA at any size.

Is #468074 accessible on a white background?

#468074 on white scores 4.56:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #468074?

#804652 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #80466F and #805746, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #468074?

For interface work: #F5FAF9 as the surface, #CAE2DD for borders, #519486 for secondary text, #844260 as an accent and #2D524B for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #468057 and #466F80 stays calm, while #804652 is the loudest partner.

What is #468074 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(45%, 0%, 9%, 50%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #468074 warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 77 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #46805F; nudged cooler, #447882.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #468074?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 18.2 away. That is a visible difference, so define #468074 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #468074 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#468074] or text-[#468074], 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 #468074 with 50% opacity?

rgba(70, 128, 116, 0.5), or #46807480 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A3C0BA; over black, #23403A.

Is #468074 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #339966, ΔE2000 13.9 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #468074 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 #468074?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #5DA697, #468074 45%, #2D524B). For more colour, a short hue run to #3B526C keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #468074 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #468074 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.