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cyan · cool

#7cc7ae

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

Token name suggestion: Signal Teal

RGB
124, 199, 174
HSL
160°, 40%, 63%
CMYK
38, 0, 13, 22
Luminance
0.4819

#7cc7ae is a balanced soft cyan, 160° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (10.64:1). As text it scores 1.97:1 on white — use #378269 instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(160 40% 63%)rgb(124 199 174)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #7cc7ae is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#7cc7ae
Hue
160°
cyan
Saturation
40%
soft
Lightness
63%
balanced
Brightness
78%
HSV value
Perceived
69%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.4819
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
10.64:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 4
Chroma
29.4
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.773
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 9
Web-safe
#66CC99
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue160° of 360°
Saturation40%
Lightness63%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #7cc7ae.

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
Red9%
Green85%
Blue6%

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

Every format

HEX#7cc7ae
HEX (8-digit)#7cc7aeff
RGBrgb(124, 199, 174)
RGBArgba(124, 199, 174, 1)
HSLhsl(160, 40%, 63%)
HSV / HSBhsv(160, 38%, 78%)
HWBhwb(160 49% 22%)
CMYKcmyk(38%, 0%, 13%, 22%)
LABlab(74.9 -29.0 5.2)
LCHlch(74.9 29.4 169.8)
OKLCHoklch(0.773 0.084 170.8)
XYZ (D65)xyz(36.37, 48.19, 47.42)
Decimal8177582
Display P3color(display-p3 0.486 0.780 0.682)
Web-safe#66CC99

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #7cc7ae;
background-color: #7cc7ae;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #7cc7ae;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#7cc7ae] bg-[#7cc7ae]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #7cc7ae;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.486, green: 0.780, blue: 0.682)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.486, green: 0.780, blue: 0.682, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#7CC7AE</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF7CC7AE)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF7CC7AE)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(174, 199, 124)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(124, 199, 174)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(124, 199, 174)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 124, 199, 174)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.4863f, 0.7804f, 0.6824f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{124,199,174}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #7cc7ae 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #7cc7ae 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#265948, #D4EDE4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #7cc7ae 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: #EBF4F1;
  --brand-200: #D2EAE2;
  --brand-300: #B0DDCE;
  --brand-400: #7cc7ae;
  --brand-500: #62BC9E;
  --brand-600: #49AB8B;
  --brand-700: #3D8F74;
  --brand-800: #31725D;
  --brand-900: #275445;
  --brand-950: #18342B;
  --brand: #7cc7ae;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C6E7DC;
  --brand-hover: #63BC9E;
  --brand-pressed: #4BB08F;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D4EDE4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF8',
        100: '#EBF4F1',
        200: '#D2EAE2',
        300: '#B0DDCE',
        400: '#7cc7ae',
        500: '#62BC9E',
        600: '#49AB8B',
        700: '#3D8F74',
        800: '#31725D',
        900: '#275445',
        950: '#18342B',
        DEFAULT: '#7cc7ae',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF8,
  '100': #EBF4F1,
  '200': #D2EAE2,
  '300': #B0DDCE,
  '400': #7cc7ae,
  '500': #62BC9E,
  '600': #49AB8B,
  '700': #3D8F74,
  '800': #31725D,
  '900': #275445,
  '950': #18342B,
);
$brand-base: #7cc7ae;
$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": "#EBF4F1", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#D2EAE2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B0DDCE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#7cc7ae", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#62BC9E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#49AB8B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#3D8F74", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#31725D", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#275445", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#18342B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #7cc7ae · 10.64:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.97:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 10.64:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #7cc7ae as text scores 1.97:1 on white and 10.64:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #265948 at 4.08:1.

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
#378269 · 4.61:1
AA on white−27% L
#378269
The quick fox
#2A624F · 7.10:1
AAA on white−36% L
#2A624F
The quick fox
#7cc7ae · 10.64:1
AA on blackalready passes
#7cc7ae
The quick fox
#7cc7ae · 10.64:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#7cc7ae

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #47A586 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
#7cc7ae on white: 1.97:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#7cc7ae on black: 10.64:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #7cc7ae as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #7cc7ae.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.97:1AaAa
Slate 501.89:1AaAa
Slate 1001.80:1AaAa
Slate 2001.60:1AaAa
Slate 3001.33:1AaAa
Slate 4001.30:1AaAa
Slate 5002.41:1AaAa
Slate 6003.84:1AaAa
Slate 7005.25:1AaAa
Slate 8007.41:1AaAa
Slate 9009.04:1AaAa
Black10.64:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C3BEAD
deuteranopia · #B6B5B0
tritanopia · #66C8C0

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. #7cc7ae 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.

#F5FAF8
#EBF4F1
#D2EAE2
#B0DDCE
#7cc7ae
#62BC9E
#49AB8B
#3D8F74
#31725D
#275445
#18342B
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF8Darkest = 950 · #18342BText 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 0.021 170.8);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.033 170.8);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.050 170.8);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.065 170.8);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.077 170.8);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.084 170.8);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.084 170.8);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.079 170.8);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.070 170.8);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.059 170.8);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.046 170.8);
}

Colors that work with #7cc7ae

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#C6E7DC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B80
Captions on the surface
Accent#93396D
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#265948
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EDF7F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#63BC9E
One step down in lightness
Pressed#4BB08F
Two steps down
Disabled#D1E2DC
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#82D5BA
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 #7cc7ae

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 #265948
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #47A586

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
  • Weight37/100
  • 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#C77C95
Analogous left#7CC788
Analogous right#7CBAC7
Split-complement 1#C77CBA
Split-complement 2#C7887C
Triadic 1#AE7CC7
Triadic 2#C7AE7C
Tetradic#887CC7
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°160°

#7cc7ae sits at 160°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red48.6%
Green78.0%
Blue68.2%
R · 0–255
124
0x7c
G · 0–255
199
0xc7
B · 0–255
174
0xae

CMYK percentages

Cyan37.7%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow12.6%
Key (black)22.0%

Total ink coverage is 72%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#7cc7ae text on a black background

contrast 10.64:1

Card sample

#7cc7ae text on a white background

contrast 1.97:1

Card sample

#7cc7ae on grey

1.80:1

#7cc7ae on its own surface

1.87:1

#7cc7ae on its dark surface

8.17:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #7cc7ae;
Background color
Panel with #7cc7ae background
background-color: #7cc7ae;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #7cc7ae;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(124, 199, 174, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(124, 199, 174, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #7cc7ae;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #7cc7ae, #7CAEC7);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7cc7ae, #7C9BC7);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #7cc7ae;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #7cc7ae;
caret-color: #7cc7ae;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #7cc7ae;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EDF7F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #7cc7ae;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#7cc7ae 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #7cc7ae 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(124, 199, 174, 0.5)
rgb(124 199 174 / 50%)
#7cc7ae80
hsl(160 40% 63% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #7cc7ae 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#7cc7ae1a#F2F9F7
20%#7cc7ae33#E5F4EF
40%#7cc7ae66#CBE9DF
60%#7cc7ae99#B0DDCE
80%#7cc7aecc#96D2BE

Gradients from #7cc7ae

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, #A7D9C8, #7cc7ae 45%, #265948);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #7cc7ae, #6699BE);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #7cc7ae, #C77C95);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #BCE2D6 0%, #7cc7ae 45%, #265948 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%, #A0D6A4 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #91C0D0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #265948 0%, transparent 65%), #7cc7ae;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #7cc7ae

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.

#7cc7ae 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 10.64:1.

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.

#7cc7ae, answered

What color is #7cc7ae?

#7cc7ae is a balanced soft cyan, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 4). It sits at 160° on the hue wheel with 40% saturation and 63% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #7cc7ae?

rgb(124, 199, 174) — 124 red, 199 green and 174 blue out of 255, or 48.6% / 78% / 68.2% by channel.

What is #7cc7ae in HSL and HSV?

hsl(160, 40%, 63%) and hsv(160, 38%, 78%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #7cc7ae a light or a dark color?

It is a mid-tone. Relative luminance is 0.4819 and perceived brightness is 69%, so black text on it reaches 10.64:1.

Should I use black or white text on #7cc7ae?

Black. It scores 10.64:1 against #7cc7ae, versus 1.97:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #7cc7ae accessible on a white background?

#7cc7ae on white scores 1.97:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #378269 to reach 4.5:1, or #2A624F for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #7cc7ae?

#C77C95 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #C77CBA and #C7887C, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #7cc7ae?

For interface work: #F4FAF8 as the surface, #C6E7DC for borders, #4B9B80 for secondary text, #93396D as an accent and #265948 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #7CC788 and #7CBAC7 stays calm, while #C77C95 is the loudest partner.

What is #7cc7ae in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(38%, 0%, 13%, 22%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #7cc7ae 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 #7CC792; nudged cooler, #7AC6C9.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #7cc7ae?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #7cc7ae as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #7cc7ae in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#7cc7ae] or text-[#7cc7ae], 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 #7cc7ae with 50% opacity?

rgba(124, 199, 174, 0.5), or #7cc7ae80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #BEE3D7; over black, #3E6457.

Is #7cc7ae a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #66CC99, ΔE2000 7.2 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #7cc7ae 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 #7cc7ae?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #A7D9C8, #7cc7ae 45%, #265948). For more colour, a short hue run to #6699BE keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #7cc7ae in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #7cc7ae at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.