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#4da892

a balanced, soft cyan · cool · closest name: Light Sea Green

Token name suggestion: Signal Lagoon

RGB
77, 168, 146
HSL
166°, 37%, 48%
CMYK
54, 0, 13, 34
Luminance
0.3166

#4da892 is a balanced soft cyan, 166° on the wheel and 81/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (7.33:1). As text it scores 2.86:1 on white — use #3B8170 instead. Nearest name is Light Sea Green, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(166 37% 48%)rgb(77 168 146)Base step 600AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #4da892 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#4da892
Hue
166°
cyan
Saturation
37%
soft
Lightness
48%
balanced
Brightness
66%
HSV value
Perceived
57%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.3166
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
81/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
7.33:1
Closest name
Light Sea Green
ΔE2000 6.8
Chroma
32.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.670
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 6
Web-safe
#669999
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue166° of 360°
Saturation37%
Lightness48%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #4da892.

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
Red5%
Green88%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#4da892
HEX (8-digit)#4da892ff
RGBrgb(77, 168, 146)
RGBArgba(77, 168, 146, 1)
HSLhsl(166, 37%, 48%)
HSV / HSBhsv(165, 54%, 66%)
HWBhwb(166 30% 34%)
CMYKcmyk(54%, 0%, 13%, 34%)
LABlab(63.1 -32.6 3.2)
LCHlch(63.1 32.8 174.5)
OKLCHoklch(0.670 0.094 175.2)
XYZ (D65)xyz(22.25, 31.66, 32.13)
Decimal5089426
Display P3color(display-p3 0.302 0.659 0.573)
Web-safe#669999

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #4da892;
background-color: #4da892;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #4da892;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#4da892] bg-[#4da892]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #4da892;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.302, green: 0.659, blue: 0.573)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.302, green: 0.659, blue: 0.573, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#4DA892</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF4DA892)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF4DA892)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(146, 168, 77)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(77, 168, 146)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(77, 168, 146)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 77, 168, 146)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3020f, 0.6588f, 0.5725f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{77,168,146}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #4da892 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #4da892 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#28574C, #D5ECE6);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #4da892 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: #F5FAF8;
  --brand-100: #EBF4F2;
  --brand-200: #D3E9E3;
  --brand-300: #B2DCD2;
  --brand-400: #8CCABB;
  --brand-500: #65B8A4;
  --brand-600: #4da892;
  --brand-700: #408C7A;
  --brand-800: #337061;
  --brand-900: #285248;
  --brand-950: #19332D;
  --brand: #4da892;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C7E5DE;
  --brand-hover: #428F7D;
  --brand-pressed: #377767;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142420;
    --brand-ink: #D5ECE6;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF8',
        100: '#EBF4F2',
        200: '#D3E9E3',
        300: '#B2DCD2',
        400: '#8CCABB',
        500: '#65B8A4',
        600: '#4da892',
        700: '#408C7A',
        800: '#337061',
        900: '#285248',
        950: '#19332D',
        DEFAULT: '#4da892',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF8,
  '100': #EBF4F2,
  '200': #D3E9E3,
  '300': #B2DCD2,
  '400': #8CCABB,
  '500': #65B8A4,
  '600': #4da892,
  '700': #408C7A,
  '800': #337061,
  '900': #285248,
  '950': #19332D,
);
$brand-base: #4da892;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF8", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF4F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D3E9E3", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B2DCD2", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#8CCABB", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#65B8A4", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4da892", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#408C7A", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#337061", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#285248", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#19332D", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #4da892 · 7.33:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.86:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 7.33:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #4da892 as text scores 2.86:1 on white and 7.33:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #28574C at 2.87:1.

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
#3B8170 · 4.61:1
AA on white−11% L
#3B8170
The quick fox
#2D6255 · 7.02:1
AAA on white−20% L
#2D6255
The quick fox
#4da892 · 7.33:1
AA on blackalready passes
#4da892
The quick fox
#4da892 · 7.33:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#4da892

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4BA48F 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
#4da892 on white: 2.86:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#4da892 on black: 7.33:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #4da892 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #4da892.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.86:1AaAa
Slate 502.74:1AaAa
Slate 1002.61:1AaAa
Slate 2002.32:1AaAa
Slate 3001.93:1AaAa
Slate 4001.12:1AaAa
Slate 5001.66:1AaAa
Slate 6002.65:1AaAa
Slate 7003.62:1AaAa
Slate 8005.11:1AaAa
Slate 9006.23:1AaAa
Black7.33:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #A39F91
deuteranopia · #959494
tritanopia · #1CAAA1

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. #4da892 is pinned to step 600; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAF8
#EBF4F2
#D3E9E3
#B2DCD2
#8CCABB
#65B8A4
#4da892
#408C7A
#337061
#285248
#19332D
Base = 600Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF8Darkest = 950 · #19332DText 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 0.023 175.2);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.037 175.2);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.056 175.2);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.073 175.2);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.086 175.2);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.094 175.2);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.094 175.2);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.088 175.2);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.079 175.2);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.066 175.2);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.051 175.2);
}

Colors that work with #4da892

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#C7E5DE
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B88
Captions on the surface
Accent#AD487A
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#28574C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF7F5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142420
Dark-mode background
Hover#428F7D
One step down in lightness
Pressed#377767
Two steps down
Disabled#A2C3BB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#4BBEA2
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 #4da892

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #28574C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4BA48F

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 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
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium
  • Weight52/100
  • 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#A84D63
Analogous left#4DA864
Analogous right#4D90A8
Split-complement 1#A84D90
Split-complement 2#A8644D
Triadic 1#924DA8
Triadic 2#A8924D
Tetradic#644DA8
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°166°

#4da892 sits at 166°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red30.2%
Green65.9%
Blue57.3%
R · 0–255
77
0x4d
G · 0–255
168
0xa8
B · 0–255
146
0x92

CMYK percentages

Cyan54.2%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow13.1%
Key (black)34.1%

Total ink coverage is 101%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#4da892 text on a black background

contrast 7.33:1

Card sample

#4da892 text on a white background

contrast 2.86:1

Card sample

#4da892 on grey

2.61:1

#4da892 on its own surface

2.72:1

#4da892 on its dark surface

5.63:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #4da892;
Background color
Panel with #4da892 background
background-color: #4da892;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #4da892;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(77, 168, 146, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(77, 168, 146, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #4da892;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #4da892, #4D81A8);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4da892, #4D6BA8);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #4da892;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #4da892;
caret-color: #4da892;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #4da892;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF7F5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #4da892;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#4da892 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #4da892 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(77, 168, 146, 0.5)
rgb(77 168 146 / 50%)
#4da89280
hsl(166 37% 48% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #4da892 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#4da8921a#EDF6F4
20%#4da89233#DBEEE9
40%#4da89266#B8DCD3
60%#4da89299#94CBBE
80%#4da892cc#71B9A8

Gradients from #4da892

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, #73BFAD, #4da892 45%, #28574C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #4da892, #436A93);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #4da892, #A84D63);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #88C8B9 0%, #4da892 45%, #28574C 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%, #6CBC7A 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #5E97B5 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #28574C 0%, transparent 65%), #4da892;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #4da892

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.

#4da892 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 7.33:1.

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.

#4da892, answered

What color is #4da892?

#4da892 is a balanced soft cyan, closest to Light Sea Green (ΔE2000 6.8). It sits at 166° on the hue wheel with 37% saturation and 48% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #4da892?

rgb(77, 168, 146) — 77 red, 168 green and 146 blue out of 255, or 30.2% / 65.9% / 57.3% by channel.

What is #4da892 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(166, 37%, 48%) and hsv(165, 54%, 66%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #4da892 a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.3166 and perceived brightness is 57%, so black text on it reaches 7.33:1.

Should I use black or white text on #4da892?

Black. It scores 7.33:1 against #4da892, versus 2.86:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #4da892 accessible on a white background?

#4da892 on white scores 2.86:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3B8170 to reach 4.5:1, or #2D6255 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #4da892?

#A84D63 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #A84D90 and #A8644D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #4da892?

For interface work: #F5FAF9 as the surface, #C7E5DE for borders, #4B9B88 for secondary text, #AD487A as an accent and #28574C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #4DA864 and #4D90A8 stays calm, while #A84D63 is the loudest partner.

What is #4da892 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(54%, 0%, 13%, 34%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #4da892 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 #4DA871; nudged cooler, #4B9EAA.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #4da892?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 6 away. That is a visible difference, so define #4da892 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #4da892 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#4da892] or text-[#4da892], 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 #4da892 with 50% opacity?

rgba(77, 168, 146, 0.5), or #4da89280 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #A6D4C9; over black, #275449.

Is #4da892 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #669999, ΔE2000 10.6 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #4da892 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 #4da892?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #73BFAD, #4da892 45%, #28574C). For more colour, a short hue run to #436A93 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #4da892 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #4da892 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.