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cyan · cool

#46ffcc

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

Token name suggestion: True Teal

RGB
70, 255, 204
HSL
164°, 100%, 64%
CMYK
73, 0, 20, 0
Luminance
0.7718

#46ffcc is a balanced electric cyan, 164° on the wheel and 81/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.44:1). As text it scores 1.28:1 on white — use #00835F instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(164 100% 64%)rgb(70 255 204)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #46ffcc is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#46ffcc
Hue
164°
cyan
Saturation
100%
electric
Lightness
64%
balanced
Brightness
100%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7718
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
81/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.44:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 3.7
Chroma
58.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.897
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 17
Web-safe
#33FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue164° of 360°
Saturation100%
Lightness64%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #46ffcc.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool81% 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
Red2%
Green93%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#46ffcc
HEX (8-digit)#46ffccff
RGBrgb(70, 255, 204)
RGBArgba(70, 255, 204, 1)
HSLhsl(164, 100%, 64%)
HSV / HSBhsv(163, 73%, 100%)
HWBhwb(164 27% 0%)
CMYKcmyk(73%, 0%, 20%, 0%)
LABlab(90.4 -57.2 11.3)
LCHlch(90.4 58.3 168.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.897 0.162 169.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(49.18, 77.18, 69.42)
Decimal4653004
Display P3color(display-p3 0.275 1.000 0.800)
Web-safe#33FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #46ffcc;
background-color: #46ffcc;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #46ffcc;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#46ffcc] bg-[#46ffcc]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #46ffcc;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.275, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.275, green: 1.000, blue: 0.800, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#46FFCC</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF46FFCC)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF46FFCC)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(204, 255, 70)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(70, 255, 204)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(70, 255, 204)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 70, 255, 204)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.2745f, 1.0000f, 0.8000f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{70,255,204}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #46ffcc 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #46ffcc 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#00805C, #D3EEE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #46ffcc 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: #F1FEFA;
  --brand-100: #E3FCF5;
  --brand-200: #C0FCEB;
  --brand-300: #8FFFE0;
  --brand-400: #46ffcc;
  --brand-500: #1FFFC1;
  --brand-600: #00F5B1;
  --brand-700: #00CC94;
  --brand-800: #00A376;
  --brand-900: #057657;
  --brand-950: #034936;
  --brand: #46ffcc;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE0;
  --brand-hover: #22FFC2;
  --brand-pressed: #00FDB8;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FEFA',
        100: '#E3FCF5',
        200: '#C0FCEB',
        300: '#8FFFE0',
        400: '#46ffcc',
        500: '#1FFFC1',
        600: '#00F5B1',
        700: '#00CC94',
        800: '#00A376',
        900: '#057657',
        950: '#034936',
        DEFAULT: '#46ffcc',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FEFA,
  '100': #E3FCF5,
  '200': #C0FCEB,
  '300': #8FFFE0,
  '400': #46ffcc,
  '500': #1FFFC1,
  '600': #00F5B1,
  '700': #00CC94,
  '800': #00A376,
  '900': #057657,
  '950': #034936,
);
$brand-base: #46ffcc;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FEFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E3FCF5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C0FCEB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#8FFFE0", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#46ffcc", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#1FFFC1", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#00F5B1", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#00CC94", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#00A376", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#057657", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#034936", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #46ffcc · 16.44:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.28:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.44:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #46ffcc as text scores 1.28:1 on white and 16.44:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #00805C at 3.87:1.

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
#00835F · 4.76:1
AA on white−38% L
#00835F
The quick fox
#006449 · 7.19:1
AAA on white−44% L
#006449
The quick fox
#46ffcc · 16.44:1
AA on blackalready passes
#46ffcc
The quick fox
#46ffcc · 16.44:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#46ffcc

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #00A779 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
#46ffcc on white: 1.28:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#46ffcc on black: 16.44:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #46ffcc as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #46ffcc.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.28:1AaAa
Slate 501.22:1AaAa
Slate 1001.17:1AaAa
Slate 2001.04:1AaAa
Slate 3001.16:1AaAa
Slate 4002.01:1AaAa
Slate 5003.72:1AaAa
Slate 6005.93:1AaAa
Slate 7008.10:1AaAa
Slate 80011.45:1AaAa
Slate 90013.97:1AaAa
Black16.44:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F8EEC9
deuteranopia · #E0DCCF
tritanopia · #00FFF0

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. #46ffcc is pinned to step 400; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F1FEFA
#E3FCF5
#C0FCEB
#8FFFE0
#46ffcc
#1FFFC1
#00F5B1
#00CC94
#00A376
#057657
#034936
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F1FEFADarkest = 950 · #034936Text 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 0.041 169.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.065 169.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.097 169.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.127 169.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.149 169.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.162 169.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.162 169.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.152 169.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.136 169.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.114 169.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.089 169.7);
}

Colors that work with #46ffcc

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#C0EDE0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B85
Captions on the surface
Accent#CC006B
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#00805C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E5FFF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#22FFC2
One step down in lightness
Pressed#00FDB8
Two steps down
Disabled#D3E3DE
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#5AFFD2
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 #46ffcc

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 #00805C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #00A779

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
  • Weight36/100
  • 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#FF4679
Analogous left#46FF70
Analogous right#46D5FF
Split-complement 1#FF46D5
Split-complement 2#FF7046
Triadic 1#CC46FF
Triadic 2#FFCC46
Tetradic#7046FF
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°164°

#46ffcc sits at 164°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red27.5%
Green100.0%
Blue80.0%
R · 0–255
70
0x46
G · 0–255
255
0xff
B · 0–255
204
0xcc

CMYK percentages

Cyan72.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow20.0%
Key (black)0.0%

Total ink coverage is 93%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#46ffcc text on a black background

contrast 16.44:1

Card sample

#46ffcc text on a white background

contrast 1.28:1

Card sample

#46ffcc on grey

1.17:1

#46ffcc on its own surface

1.21:1

#46ffcc on its dark surface

12.61:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #46ffcc;
Background color
Panel with #46ffcc background
background-color: #46ffcc;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #46ffcc;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(70, 255, 204, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(70, 255, 204, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #46ffcc;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #46ffcc, #46B6FF);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #46ffcc, #4688FF);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #46ffcc;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #46ffcc;
caret-color: #46ffcc;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #46ffcc;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E5FFF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #46ffcc;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#46ffcc 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #46ffcc 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, 255, 204, 0.5)
rgb(70 255 204 / 50%)
#46ffcc80
hsl(164 100% 64% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #46ffcc 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#46ffcc1a#EDFFFA
20%#46ffcc33#DAFFF5
40%#46ffcc66#B5FFEB
60%#46ffcc99#90FFE0
80%#46ffcccc#6BFFD6

Gradients from #46ffcc

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, #83FFDD, #46ffcc 45%, #00805C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #46ffcc, #2799FF);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #46ffcc, #FF4679);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #A2FFE5 0%, #46ffcc 45%, #00805C 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%, #79FF8C 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #64CFFF 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #00805C 0%, transparent 65%), #46ffcc;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #46ffcc

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.

#46ffcc 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 16.44:1.

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.

#46ffcc, answered

What color is #46ffcc?

#46ffcc is a balanced electric cyan, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 3.7). It sits at 164° on the hue wheel with 100% saturation and 64% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #46ffcc?

rgb(70, 255, 204) — 70 red, 255 green and 204 blue out of 255, or 27.5% / 100% / 80% by channel.

What is #46ffcc in HSL and HSV?

hsl(164, 100%, 64%) and hsv(163, 73%, 100%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #46ffcc a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7718 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 16.44:1.

Should I use black or white text on #46ffcc?

Black. It scores 16.44:1 against #46ffcc, versus 1.28:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #46ffcc accessible on a white background?

#46ffcc on white scores 1.28:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #00835F to reach 4.5:1, or #006449 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #46ffcc?

#FF4679 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FF46D5 and #FF7046, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #46ffcc?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE0 for borders, #4B9B85 for secondary text, #CC006B as an accent and #00805C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #46FF70 and #46D5FF stays calm, while #FF4679 is the loudest partner.

What is #46ffcc in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(73%, 0%, 20%, 0%). 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 #46ffcc warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 81 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #46FF88; nudged cooler, #46EEFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #46ffcc?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 17 away. That is a visible difference, so define #46ffcc as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #46ffcc in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#46ffcc] or text-[#46ffcc], 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 #46ffcc with 50% opacity?

rgba(70, 255, 204, 0.5), or #46ffcc80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A3FFE6; over black, #238066.

Is #46ffcc a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #33FFCC, ΔE2000 0.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #46ffcc 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 #46ffcc?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #83FFDD, #46ffcc 45%, #00805C). For more colour, a short hue run to #2799FF keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #46ffcc in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #46ffcc at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.