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cyan · cool

#6dc1af

a balanced, soft cyan · cool · closest name: Medium Aqua Marine

Token name suggestion: Atlas Glacier

RGB
109, 193, 175
HSL
167°, 40%, 59%
CMYK
44, 0, 9, 24
Luminance
0.4449

#6dc1af is a balanced soft cyan, 167° on the wheel and 82/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (9.90:1). As text it scores 2.12:1 on white — use #378272 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(167 40% 59%)rgb(109 193 175)Base step 500AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #6dc1af is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#6dc1af
Hue
167°
cyan
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
59%
balanced
Brightness
76%
HSV value
Perceived
67%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4449
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
82/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
9.90:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 5.8
Chroma
29.9
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.752
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 6.4
Web-safe
#66CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue167° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness59%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #6dc1af.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool82% 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#6dc1af
HEX (8-digit)#6dc1afff
RGBrgb(109, 193, 175)
RGBArgba(109, 193, 175, 1)
HSLhsl(167, 40%, 59%)
HSV / HSBhsv(167, 44%, 76%)
HWBhwb(167 43% 24%)
CMYKcmyk(44%, 0%, 9%, 24%)
LABlab(72.5 -29.9 1.1)
LCHlch(72.5 29.9 177.9)
OKLCHoklch(0.752 0.087 178.4)
XYZ (D65)xyz(33.11, 44.48, 47.39)
Decimal7193007
Display P3color(display-p3 0.427 0.757 0.686)
Web-safe#66CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #6dc1af;
background-color: #6dc1af;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #6dc1af;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#6dc1af] bg-[#6dc1af]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #6dc1af;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.427, green: 0.757, blue: 0.686)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.427, green: 0.757, blue: 0.686, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#6DC1AF</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF6DC1AF)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF6DC1AF)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(175, 193, 109)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(109, 193, 175)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(109, 193, 175)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 109, 193, 175)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4275f, 0.7569f, 0.6863f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{109,193,175}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #6dc1af 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #6dc1af 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#265A4E, #D4EDE7);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #6dc1af 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: #EBF5F2;
  --brand-200: #D2EAE5;
  --brand-300: #B0DED4;
  --brand-400: #89CDBE;
  --brand-500: #6dc1af;
  --brand-600: #49AC97;
  --brand-700: #3D8F7D;
  --brand-800: #317364;
  --brand-900: #26544A;
  --brand-950: #18342E;
  --brand: #6dc1af;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C6E7E0;
  --brand-hover: #54B6A1;
  --brand-pressed: #45A28E;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D4EDE7;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF9',
        100: '#EBF5F2',
        200: '#D2EAE5',
        300: '#B0DED4',
        400: '#89CDBE',
        500: '#6dc1af',
        600: '#49AC97',
        700: '#3D8F7D',
        800: '#317364',
        900: '#26544A',
        950: '#18342E',
        DEFAULT: '#6dc1af',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF9,
  '100': #EBF5F2,
  '200': #D2EAE5,
  '300': #B0DED4,
  '400': #89CDBE,
  '500': #6dc1af,
  '600': #49AC97,
  '700': #3D8F7D,
  '800': #317364,
  '900': #26544A,
  '950': #18342E,
);
$brand-base: #6dc1af;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F5FAF9", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EBF5F2", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2EAE5", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B0DED4", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#89CDBE", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#6dc1af", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#49AC97", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3D8F7D", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#317364", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#26544A", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#18342E", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #6dc1af · 9.90:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 2.12:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 9.90:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #6dc1af as text scores 2.12:1 on white and 9.90:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #265A4E at 3.73:1.

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
#378272 · 4.57:1
AA on white−23% L
#378272
The quick fox
#296155 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−32% L
#296155
The quick fox
#6dc1af · 9.90:1
AA on blackalready passes
#6dc1af
The quick fox
#6dc1af · 9.90:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#6dc1af

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #45A28E 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
#6dc1af on white: 2.12:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#6dc1af on black: 9.90:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #6dc1af as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #6dc1af.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White2.12:1AaAa
Slate 502.03:1AaAa
Slate 1001.94:1AaAa
Slate 2001.72:1AaAa
Slate 3001.43:1AaAa
Slate 4001.21:1AaAa
Slate 5002.24:1AaAa
Slate 6003.57:1AaAa
Slate 7004.88:1AaAa
Slate 8006.89:1AaAa
Slate 9008.41:1AaAa
Black9.90:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #BBB8AE
deuteranopia · #ADAEB0
tritanopia · #4DC3BB

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. #6dc1af is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F5FAF9
#EBF5F2
#D2EAE5
#B0DED4
#89CDBE
#6dc1af
#49AC97
#3D8F7D
#317364
#26544A
#18342E
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF9Darkest = 950 · #18342EText 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 0.022 178.4);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.035 178.4);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.052 178.4);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.068 178.4);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.080 178.4);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.087 178.4);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.087 178.4);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.081 178.4);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.073 178.4);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.061 178.4);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.048 178.4);
}

Colors that work with #6dc1af

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#C6E7E0
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8A
Captions on the surface
Accent#C56994
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#265A4E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF7F5
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#54B6A1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#45A28E
Two steps down
Disabled#C5DAD5
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#72D0BC
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 #6dc1af

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 #265A4E
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #45A28E

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
  • Weight41/100
  • 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#C16D7F
Analogous left#6DC185
Analogous right#6DA9C1
Split-complement 1#C16DA9
Split-complement 2#C1856D
Triadic 1#AF6DC1
Triadic 2#C1AF6D
Tetradic#856DC1
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°167°

#6dc1af sits at 167°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red42.7%
Green75.7%
Blue68.6%
R · 0–255
109
0x6d
G · 0–255
193
0xc1
B · 0–255
175
0xaf

CMYK percentages

Cyan43.5%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.3%
Key (black)24.3%

Total ink coverage is 77%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#6dc1af text on a black background

contrast 9.90:1

Card sample

#6dc1af text on a white background

contrast 2.12:1

Card sample

#6dc1af on grey

1.94:1

#6dc1af on its own surface

2.01:1

#6dc1af on its dark surface

7.59:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #6dc1af;
Background color
Panel with #6dc1af background
background-color: #6dc1af;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #6dc1af;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(109, 193, 175, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(109, 193, 175, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #6dc1af;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #6dc1af, #6D9BC1);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6dc1af, #6D86C1);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #6dc1af;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #6dc1af;
caret-color: #6dc1af;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #6dc1af;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF7F5;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #6dc1af;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#6dc1af 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #6dc1af 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(109, 193, 175, 0.5)
rgb(109 193 175 / 50%)
#6dc1af80
hsl(167 40% 59% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #6dc1af 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#6dc1af1a#F0F9F7
20%#6dc1af33#E2F3EF
40%#6dc1af66#C5E6DF
60%#6dc1af99#A7DACF
80%#6dc1afcc#8ACDBF

Gradients from #6dc1af

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, #98D3C6, #6dc1af 45%, #265A4E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #6dc1af, #5784B8);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #6dc1af, #C16D7F);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #ADDCD2 0%, #6dc1af 45%, #265A4E 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%, #91D09E 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #82B0CA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #265A4E 0%, transparent 65%), #6dc1af;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #6dc1af

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.

#6dc1af 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 9.90:1.

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.

#6dc1af, answered

What color is #6dc1af?

#6dc1af is a balanced soft cyan, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 5.8). It sits at 167° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 59% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #6dc1af?

rgb(109, 193, 175) — 109 red, 193 green and 175 blue out of 255, or 42.7% / 75.7% / 68.6% by channel.

What is #6dc1af in HSL and HSV?

hsl(167, 40%, 59%) and hsv(167, 44%, 76%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #6dc1af a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4449 and perceived brightness is 67%, so black text on it reaches 9.90:1.

Should I use black or white text on #6dc1af?

Black. It scores 9.90:1 against #6dc1af, versus 2.12:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #6dc1af accessible on a white background?

#6dc1af on white scores 2.12:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #378272 to reach 4.5:1, or #296155 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #6dc1af?

#C16D7F sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C16DA9 and #C1856D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #6dc1af?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C6E7E0 for borders, #4B9B8A for secondary text, #C56994 as an accent and #265A4E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #6DC185 and #6DA9C1 stays calm, while #C16D7F is the loudest partner.

What is #6dc1af in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(44%, 0%, 9%, 24%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #6dc1af warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 82 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #6DC190; nudged cooler, #6BB6C3.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #6dc1af?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 6.4 away. That is a visible difference, so define #6dc1af as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #6dc1af in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#6dc1af] or text-[#6dc1af], 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 #6dc1af with 50% opacity?

rgba(109, 193, 175, 0.5), or #6dc1af80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #B6E0D7; over black, #376158.

Is #6dc1af a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC99, ΔE2000 9.5 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #6dc1af 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 #6dc1af?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #98D3C6, #6dc1af 45%, #265A4E). For more colour, a short hue run to #5784B8 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #6dc1af in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #6dc1af at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.