Skip to content
cyan · cool

#7ae3db

a light, vivid cyan · cool · closest name: Turquoise

Token name suggestion: Meadow Teal

RGB
122, 227, 219
HSL
175°, 65%, 68%
CMYK
46, 0, 4, 11
Luminance
0.6419

#7ae3db is a light vivid cyan, 175° on the wheel and 86/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (13.84:1). As text it scores 1.52:1 on white — use #1C847C instead. Nearest name is Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(175 65% 68%)rgb(122 227 219)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7ae3db is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7ae3db
Hue
175°
cyan
Saturation
65%
vivid
Lightness
68%
light
Brightness
89%
HSV value
Perceived
79%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.6419
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
86/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
13.84:1
Closest name
Turquoise
ΔE2000 5
Chroma
32.8
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.851
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 12.9
Web-safe
#66CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue175° of 360°
Saturation65%
Lightness68%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7ae3db.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool86% 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
Red6%
Green86%
Blue8%

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

Every format

HEX#7ae3db
HEX (8-digit)#7ae3dbff
RGBrgb(122, 227, 219)
RGBArgba(122, 227, 219, 1)
HSLhsl(175, 65%, 68%)
HSV / HSBhsv(175, 46%, 89%)
HWBhwb(175 48% 11%)
CMYKcmyk(46%, 0%, 4%, 11%)
LABlab(84.1 -32.4 -5.5)
LCHlch(84.1 32.8 189.7)
OKLCHoklch(0.851 0.099 189.0)
XYZ (D65)xyz(48.28, 64.19, 76.85)
Decimal8053723
Display P3color(display-p3 0.478 0.890 0.859)
Web-safe#66CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7ae3db;
background-color: #7ae3db;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7ae3db;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7ae3db] bg-[#7ae3db]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7ae3db;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.478, green: 0.890, blue: 0.859)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.478, green: 0.890, blue: 0.859, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7AE3DB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7AE3DB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7AE3DB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(219, 227, 122)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(122, 227, 219)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(122, 227, 219)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 122, 227, 219)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4784f, 0.8902f, 0.8588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{122,227,219}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7ae3db 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7ae3db 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#166963, #D3EEEC);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7ae3db 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: #F3FBFB;
  --brand-100: #E8F7F6;
  --brand-200: #CBF1EE;
  --brand-300: #A2EBE6;
  --brand-400: #7ae3db;
  --brand-500: #46D8CD;
  --brand-600: #2BCABE;
  --brand-700: #23A99E;
  --brand-800: #1C877F;
  --brand-900: #18625C;
  --brand-950: #0F3D3A;
  --brand: #7ae3db;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAFA;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE9;
  --brand-hover: #5CDDD3;
  --brand-pressed: #3FD7CB;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142423;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEEC;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBFB',
        100: '#E8F7F6',
        200: '#CBF1EE',
        300: '#A2EBE6',
        400: '#7ae3db',
        500: '#46D8CD',
        600: '#2BCABE',
        700: '#23A99E',
        800: '#1C877F',
        900: '#18625C',
        950: '#0F3D3A',
        DEFAULT: '#7ae3db',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBFB,
  '100': #E8F7F6,
  '200': #CBF1EE,
  '300': #A2EBE6,
  '400': #7ae3db,
  '500': #46D8CD,
  '600': #2BCABE,
  '700': #23A99E,
  '800': #1C877F,
  '900': #18625C,
  '950': #0F3D3A,
);
$brand-base: #7ae3db;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBFB", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E8F7F6", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CBF1EE", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#A2EBE6", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7ae3db", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#46D8CD", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#2BCABE", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#23A99E", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#1C877F", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#18625C", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0F3D3A", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7ae3db · 13.84:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.52:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 13.84:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7ae3db as text scores 1.52:1 on white and 13.84:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #166963 at 4.28:1.

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
#1C847C · 4.52:1
AA on white−37% L
#1C847C
The quick fox
#15635D · 7.06:1
AAA on white−45% L
#15635D
The quick fox
#7ae3db · 13.84:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7ae3db
The quick fox
#7ae3db · 13.84:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7ae3db

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #23A69C 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
#7ae3db on white: 1.52:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7ae3db on black: 13.84:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7ae3db as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7ae3db.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.52:1AaAa
Slate 501.45:1AaAa
Slate 1001.39:1AaAa
Slate 2001.23:1AaAa
Slate 3001.02:1AaAa
Slate 4001.69:1AaAa
Slate 5003.14:1AaAa
Slate 6004.99:1AaAa
Slate 7006.82:1AaAa
Slate 8009.64:1AaAa
Slate 90011.76:1AaAa
Black13.84:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #D9D9DB
deuteranopia · #C7CCDC
tritanopia · #45E8E0

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. #7ae3db 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.

#F3FBFB
#E8F7F6
#CBF1EE
#A2EBE6
#7ae3db
#46D8CD
#2BCABE
#23A99E
#1C877F
#18625C
#0F3D3A
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F3FBFBDarkest = 950 · #0F3D3AText 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 0.025 189.0);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.040 189.0);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.059 189.0);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.077 189.0);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.091 189.0);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.099 189.0);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.099 189.0);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.093 189.0);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.083 189.0);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.069 189.0);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.054 189.0);
}

Colors that work with #7ae3db

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#F4FAFA
Tinted page background
Border#C0EDE9
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B95
Captions on the surface
Accent#AC204D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#166963
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EAFBF9
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142423
Dark-mode background
Hover#5CDDD3
One step down in lightness
Pressed#3FD7CB
Two steps down
Disabled#E1ECEB
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#84EEE5
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

The file stays available for seven days. Download it before it expires.

NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #7ae3db

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 #166963
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #23A69C

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.

This is a confident chroma: strong enough to lead a brand, restrained enough to live in an interface all day. The lightness keeps it airy and approachable.

Worth knowing

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

Reads as
  • FormalityMedium
  • EnergyMedium-high
  • 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#E37A82
Analogous left#7AE3A6
Analogous right#7AB6E3
Split-complement 1#E37AB6
Split-complement 2#E3A67A
Triadic 1#DB7AE3
Triadic 2#E3DB7A
Tetradic#A67AE3
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°175°

#7ae3db sits at 175°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red47.8%
Green89.0%
Blue85.9%
R · 0–255
122
0x7a
G · 0–255
227
0xe3
B · 0–255
219
0xdb

CMYK percentages

Cyan46.3%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow3.5%
Key (black)11.0%

Total ink coverage is 61%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7ae3db text on a black background

contrast 13.84:1

Card sample

#7ae3db text on a white background

contrast 1.52:1

Card sample

#7ae3db on grey

1.39:1

#7ae3db on its own surface

1.44:1

#7ae3db on its dark surface

10.59:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7ae3db;
Background color
Panel with #7ae3db background
background-color: #7ae3db;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7ae3db;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(122, 227, 219, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(122, 227, 219, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7ae3db;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7ae3db, #7AA5E3);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7ae3db, #7A8BE3);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7ae3db;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7ae3db;
caret-color: #7ae3db;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7ae3db;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EAFBF9;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7ae3db;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7ae3db 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7ae3db 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(122, 227, 219, 0.5)
rgb(122 227 219 / 50%)
#7ae3db80
hsl(175 65% 68% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7ae3db 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7ae3db1a#F2FCFB
20%#7ae3db33#E4F9F8
40%#7ae3db66#CAF4F1
60%#7ae3db99#AFEEE9
80%#7ae3dbcc#95E9E2

Gradients from #7ae3db

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, #ACEEE9, #7ae3db 45%, #166963);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7ae3db, #6189DE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7ae3db, #E37A82);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C6F3EF 0%, #7ae3db 45%, #166963 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F4FAFA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #A4ECBC 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #93BDE8 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #166963 0%, transparent 65%), #7ae3db;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7ae3db

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.

#7ae3db 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

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 13.84:1.

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.

#7ae3db, answered

What color is #7ae3db?

#7ae3db is a light vivid cyan, closest to Turquoise (ΔE2000 5). It sits at 175° on the hue wheel with 65% saturation and 68% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7ae3db?

rgb(122, 227, 219) — 122 red, 227 green and 219 blue out of 255, or 47.8% / 89% / 85.9% by channel.

What is #7ae3db in HSL and HSV?

hsl(175, 65%, 68%) and hsv(175, 46%, 89%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7ae3db a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.6419 and perceived brightness is 79%, so black text on it reaches 13.84:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7ae3db?

Black. It scores 13.84:1 against #7ae3db, versus 1.52:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7ae3db accessible on a white background?

#7ae3db on white scores 1.52:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #1C847C to reach 4.5:1, or #15635D for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7ae3db?

#E37A82 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #E37AB6 and #E3A67A, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7ae3db?

For interface work: #F4FAFA as the surface, #C0EDE9 for borders, #4B9B95 for secondary text, #AC204D as an accent and #166963 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7AE3A6 and #7AB6E3 stays calm, while #E37A82 is the loudest partner.

What is #7ae3db in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(46%, 0%, 4%, 11%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7ae3db warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 86 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #7AE3B4; nudged cooler, #78C5E5.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7ae3db?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 12.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7ae3db as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7ae3db in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7ae3db] or text-[#7ae3db], 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 #7ae3db with 50% opacity?

rgba(122, 227, 219, 0.5), or #7ae3db80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BDF1ED; over black, #3D726E.

Is #7ae3db a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CCCC, ΔE2000 6.1 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7ae3db 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 #7ae3db?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #ACEEE9, #7ae3db 45%, #166963). For more colour, a short hue run to #6189DE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7ae3db in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7ae3db at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.