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#62fbc9

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

Token name suggestion: Linen Teal

RGB
98, 251, 201
HSL
160°, 95%, 68%
CMYK
61, 0, 20, 2
Luminance
0.7581

#62fbc9 is a light electric cyan, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (16.16:1). As text it scores 1.30:1 on white — use #038359 instead. Nearest name is Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is emerald.

hsl(160 95% 68%)rgb(98 251 201)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #62fbc9 is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#62fbc9
Hue
160°
cyan
Saturation
95%
electric
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
98%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7581
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Electric
Best ink
Black
16.16:1
Closest name
Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 2.6
Chroma
53.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.893
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
emerald
500 · ΔE 16.4
Web-safe
#66FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° of 360°
Saturation95%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #62fbc9.

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
Red3%
Green91%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#62fbc9
HEX (8-digit)#62fbc9ff
RGBrgb(98, 251, 201)
RGBArgba(98, 251, 201, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 95%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 61%, 98%)
HWBhwb(160 38% 2%)
CMYKcmyk(61%, 0%, 20%, 2%)
LABlab(89.8 -52.1 12.0)
LCHlch(89.8 53.5 167.0)
OKLCHoklch(0.893 0.148 168.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(50.07, 75.80, 67.24)
Decimal6486985
Display P3color(display-p3 0.384 0.984 0.788)
Web-safe#66FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #62fbc9;
background-color: #62fbc9;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #62fbc9;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#62fbc9] bg-[#62fbc9]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #62fbc9;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.384, green: 0.984, blue: 0.788)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.384, green: 0.984, blue: 0.788, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#62FBC9</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF62FBC9)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF62FBC9)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(201, 251, 98)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(98, 251, 201)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(98, 251, 201)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 98, 251, 201)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.3843f, 0.9843f, 0.7882f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{98,251,201}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #62fbc9 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #62fbc9 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#037C55, #D3EEE5);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #62fbc9 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: #F1FDF9;
  --brand-100: #E4FBF4;
  --brand-200: #C2FAE8;
  --brand-300: #92FCD9;
  --brand-400: #62fbc9;
  --brand-500: #24F9B4;
  --brand-600: #06EFA3;
  --brand-700: #05C788;
  --brand-800: #049F6C;
  --brand-900: #087350;
  --brand-950: #054832;
  --brand: #62fbc9;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C0EDDE;
  --brand-hover: #3FFABD;
  --brand-pressed: #1CF9B1;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE5;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F1FDF9',
        100: '#E4FBF4',
        200: '#C2FAE8',
        300: '#92FCD9',
        400: '#62fbc9',
        500: '#24F9B4',
        600: '#06EFA3',
        700: '#05C788',
        800: '#049F6C',
        900: '#087350',
        950: '#054832',
        DEFAULT: '#62fbc9',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F1FDF9,
  '100': #E4FBF4,
  '200': #C2FAE8,
  '300': #92FCD9,
  '400': #62fbc9,
  '500': #24F9B4,
  '600': #06EFA3,
  '700': #05C788,
  '800': #049F6C,
  '900': #087350,
  '950': #054832,
);
$brand-base: #62fbc9;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F1FDF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E4FBF4", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#C2FAE8", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92FCD9", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#62fbc9", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#24F9B4", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#06EFA3", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#05C788", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#049F6C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#087350", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#054832", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #62fbc9 · 16.16:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.30:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 16.16:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #62fbc9 as text scores 1.30:1 on white and 16.16:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #037C55 at 4.02:1.

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
#038359 · 4.78:1
AA on white−42% L
#038359
The quick fox
#036545 · 7.12:1
AAA on white−48% L
#036545
The quick fox
#62fbc9 · 16.16:1
AA on blackalready passes
#62fbc9
The quick fox
#62fbc9 · 16.16:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#62fbc9

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #04A671 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
#62fbc9 on white: 1.30:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#62fbc9 on black: 16.16:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #62fbc9 as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #62fbc9.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.30:1AaAa
Slate 501.24:1AaAa
Slate 1001.19:1AaAa
Slate 2001.05:1AaAa
Slate 3001.14:1AaAa
Slate 4001.97:1AaAa
Slate 5003.66:1AaAa
Slate 6005.83:1AaAa
Slate 7007.97:1AaAa
Slate 80011.26:1AaAa
Slate 90013.74:1AaAa
Black16.16:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #F5EBC6
deuteranopia · #E0DBCC
tritanopia · #00FCED

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. #62fbc9 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.

#F1FDF9
#E4FBF4
#C2FAE8
#92FCD9
#62fbc9
#24F9B4
#06EFA3
#05C788
#049F6C
#087350
#054832
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F1FDF9Darkest = 950 · #054832Text 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 0.037 168.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.059 168.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.089 168.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.116 168.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.137 168.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.148 168.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.148 168.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.139 168.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.125 168.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.104 168.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.082 168.0);
}

Colors that work with #62fbc9

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#CB0176
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#037C55
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E6FEF6
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#3FFABD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#1CF9B1
Two steps down
Disabled#E1ECE8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#72FFD1
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 #62fbc9

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
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • White 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
Not as text
Safe as a fill behind white type
No — use #037C55
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #04A671

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 lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

At high lightness it disappears into white surfaces and thin strokes vanish entirely.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight32/100
  • 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#FB6294
Analogous left#62FB7C
Analogous right#62E0FB
Split-complement 1#FB62E0
Split-complement 2#FB7C62
Triadic 1#C962FB
Triadic 2#FBC962
Tetradic#7C62FB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#62fbc9 sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red38.4%
Green98.4%
Blue78.8%
R · 0–255
98
0x62
G · 0–255
251
0xfb
B · 0–255
201
0xc9

CMYK percentages

Cyan61.0%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow19.9%
Key (black)1.6%

Total ink coverage is 83%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#62fbc9 text on a black background

contrast 16.16:1

Card sample

#62fbc9 text on a white background

contrast 1.30:1

Card sample

#62fbc9 on grey

1.19:1

#62fbc9 on its own surface

1.23:1

#62fbc9 on its dark surface

12.41:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #62fbc9;
Background color
Panel with #62fbc9 background
background-color: #62fbc9;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #62fbc9;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(98, 251, 201, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(98, 251, 201, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #62fbc9;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #62fbc9, #62C7FB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62fbc9, #62A1FB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #62fbc9;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #62fbc9;
caret-color: #62fbc9;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #62fbc9;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E6FEF6;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #62fbc9;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#62fbc9 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #62fbc9 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(98, 251, 201, 0.5)
rgb(98 251 201 / 50%)
#62fbc980
hsl(160 95% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #62fbc9 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#62fbc91a#EFFFFA
20%#62fbc933#E0FEF4
40%#62fbc966#C0FDE9
60%#62fbc999#A1FDDF
80%#62fbc9cc#81FCD4

Gradients from #62fbc9

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, #9EFDDD, #62fbc9 45%, #037C55);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #62fbc9, #44ADFA);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #62fbc9, #FB6294);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BBFDE8 0%, #62fbc9 45%, #037C55 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%, #94FC9D 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #80DCFC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #037C55 0%, transparent 65%), #62fbc9;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #62fbc9

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.

#62fbc9 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
SurfacesBadgesHighlightsEmpty states
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 16.16:1.

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.

#62fbc9, answered

What color is #62fbc9?

#62fbc9 is a light electric cyan, closest to Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 2.6). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 95% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #62fbc9?

rgb(98, 251, 201) — 98 red, 251 green and 201 blue out of 255, or 38.4% / 98.4% / 78.8% by channel.

What is #62fbc9 in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 95%, 68%) and hsv(160, 61%, 98%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #62fbc9 a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7581 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 16.16:1.

Should I use black or white text on #62fbc9?

Black. It scores 16.16:1 against #62fbc9, versus 1.30:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #62fbc9 accessible on a white background?

#62fbc9 on white scores 1.30:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #038359 to reach 4.5:1, or #036545 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #62fbc9?

#FB6294 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FB62E0 and #FB7C62, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #62fbc9?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C0EDDE for borders, #4B9B81 for secondary text, #CB0176 as an accent and #037C55 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #62FB7C and #62E0FB stays calm, while #FB6294 is the loudest partner.

What is #62fbc9 in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(61%, 0%, 20%, 2%). 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 #62fbc9 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 #62FB91; nudged cooler, #60F6FD.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #62fbc9?

The emerald family — its 500 step is #10b981, ΔE2000 16.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #62fbc9 as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #62fbc9 in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#62fbc9] or text-[#62fbc9], 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 #62fbc9 with 50% opacity?

rgba(98, 251, 201, 0.5), or #62fbc980 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B1FDE4; over black, #317E65.

Is #62fbc9 a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66FFCC, ΔE2000 0.8 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #62fbc9 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 #62fbc9?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #9EFDDD, #62fbc9 45%, #037C55). For more colour, a short hue run to #44ADFA keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #62fbc9 in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #62fbc9 at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.