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#92cdba

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

Token name suggestion: Drift Glacier

RGB
146, 205, 186
HSL
161°, 37%, 69%
CMYK
29, 0, 9, 20
Luminance
0.5332

#92cdba is a light soft cyan, 161° on the wheel and 79/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (11.66:1). As text it scores 1.80:1 on white — use #3B816A instead. Nearest name is Medium Aqua Marine, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(161 37% 69%)rgb(146 205 186)Base step 400AAA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #92cdba is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#92cdba
Hue
161°
cyan
Saturation
37%
soft
Lightness
69%
light
Brightness
80%
HSV value
Perceived
73%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.5332
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
79/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Soft
Best ink
Black
11.66:1
Closest name
Medium Aqua Marine
ΔE2000 7.1
Chroma
23.2
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.802
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 11.8
Web-safe
#99CCCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue161° of 360°
Saturation37%
Lightness69%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #92cdba.

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
Red11%
Green82%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#92cdba
HEX (8-digit)#92cdbaff
RGBrgb(146, 205, 186)
RGBArgba(146, 205, 186, 1)
HSLhsl(161, 37%, 69%)
HSV / HSBhsv(161, 29%, 80%)
HWBhwb(161 57% 20%)
CMYKcmyk(29%, 0%, 9%, 20%)
LABlab(78.1 -23.0 3.4)
LCHlch(78.1 23.2 171.6)
OKLCHoklch(0.802 0.067 172.6)
XYZ (D65)xyz(42.55, 53.32, 54.49)
Decimal9620922
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.804 0.729)
Web-safe#99CCCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #92cdba;
background-color: #92cdba;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #92cdba;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#92cdba] bg-[#92cdba]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #92cdba;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.804, blue: 0.729)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.804, blue: 0.729, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#92CDBA</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF92CDBA)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF92CDBA)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(186, 205, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 205, 186)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 205, 186)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 205, 186)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.8039f, 0.7294f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,205,186}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #92cdba 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #92cdba 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#285748, #D5ECE4);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #92cdba 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: #D3E9E2;
  --brand-300: #B2DCCE;
  --brand-400: #92cdba;
  --brand-500: #65B89E;
  --brand-600: #4DA88B;
  --brand-700: #408C73;
  --brand-800: #33705C;
  --brand-900: #285245;
  --brand-950: #19332B;
  --brand: #92cdba;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F5FAF8;
  --brand-border: #C7E5DC;
  --brand-hover: #79C2AA;
  --brand-pressed: #61B79B;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #14241F;
    --brand-ink: #D5ECE4;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F5FAF8',
        100: '#EBF4F1',
        200: '#D3E9E2',
        300: '#B2DCCE',
        400: '#92cdba',
        500: '#65B89E',
        600: '#4DA88B',
        700: '#408C73',
        800: '#33705C',
        900: '#285245',
        950: '#19332B',
        DEFAULT: '#92cdba',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F5FAF8,
  '100': #EBF4F1,
  '200': #D3E9E2,
  '300': #B2DCCE,
  '400': #92cdba,
  '500': #65B89E,
  '600': #4DA88B,
  '700': #408C73,
  '800': #33705C,
  '900': #285245,
  '950': #19332B,
);
$brand-base: #92cdba;
$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": "#D3E9E2", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#B2DCCE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#92cdba", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#65B89E", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#4DA88B", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#408C73", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#33705C", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#285245", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#19332B", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #92cdba · 11.66:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.80:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 11.66:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #92cdba as text scores 1.80:1 on white and 11.66:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #285748 at 4.58:1.

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
#3B816A · 4.63:1
AA on white−32% L
#3B816A
The quick fox
#2D6150 · 7.15:1
AAA on white−41% L
#2D6150
The quick fox
#92cdba · 11.66:1
AA on blackalready passes
#92cdba
The quick fox
#92cdba · 11.66:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#92cdba

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #4BA487 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
#92cdba on white: 1.80:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#92cdba on black: 11.66:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #92cdba as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #92cdba.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.80:1AaAa
Slate 501.72:1AaAa
Slate 1001.64:1AaAa
Slate 2001.46:1AaAa
Slate 3001.21:1AaAa
Slate 4001.42:1AaAa
Slate 5002.64:1AaAa
Slate 6004.21:1AaAa
Slate 7005.75:1AaAa
Slate 8008.13:1AaAa
Slate 9009.92:1AaAa
Black11.66:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #C9C6B9
deuteranopia · #BFBEBB
tritanopia · #83CEC7

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. #92cdba 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
#D3E9E2
#B2DCCE
#92cdba
#65B89E
#4DA88B
#408C73
#33705C
#285245
#19332B
Base = 400Lightest = 50 · #F5FAF8Darkest = 950 · #19332BText 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 0.017 172.6);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.027 172.6);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.040 172.6);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.052 172.6);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.061 172.6);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.067 172.6);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.067 172.6);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.063 172.6);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.056 172.6);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.047 172.6);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.037 172.6);
}

Colors that work with #92cdba

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#F5FAF8
Tinted page background
Border#C7E5DC
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B81
Captions on the surface
Accent#903C6C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#285748
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#EEF7F4
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#14241F
Dark-mode background
Hover#79C2AA
One step down in lightness
Pressed#61B79B
Two steps down
Disabled#E2EDE9
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#99DAC5
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 #92cdba

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

Works well for
  • Text and icons on dark surfaces
  • Charts, tags and secondary surfaces
  • Card and section backgrounds
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
Use with care
  • Text of any size on white — fails WCAG AA
  • 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 #285748
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #4BA487

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 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
  • Weight31/100
  • 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#CD92A5
Analogous left#92CD9C
Analogous right#92C2CD
Split-complement 1#CD92C2
Split-complement 2#CD9C92
Triadic 1#BA92CD
Triadic 2#CDBA92
Tetradic#9C92CD
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°161°

#92cdba sits at 161°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green80.4%
Blue72.9%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
205
0xcd
B · 0–255
186
0xba

CMYK percentages

Cyan28.8%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow9.3%
Key (black)19.6%

Total ink coverage is 58%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#92cdba text on a black background

contrast 11.66:1

Card sample

#92cdba text on a white background

contrast 1.80:1

Card sample

#92cdba on grey

1.64:1

#92cdba on its own surface

1.71:1

#92cdba on its dark surface

8.96:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #92cdba;
Background color
Panel with #92cdba background
background-color: #92cdba;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #92cdba;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 205, 186, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 205, 186, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #92cdba;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #92cdba, #92B9CD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92cdba, #92AACD);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #92cdba;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #92cdba;
caret-color: #92cdba;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #92cdba;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #EEF7F4;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #92cdba;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#92cdba 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #92cdba 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(146, 205, 186, 0.5)
rgb(146 205 186 / 50%)
#92cdba80
hsl(161 37% 69% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #92cdba 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#92cdba1a#F4FAF8
20%#92cdba33#E9F5F1
40%#92cdba66#D3EBE3
60%#92cdba99#BEE1D6
80%#92cdbacc#A8D7C8

Gradients from #92cdba

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, #BCE0D5, #92cdba 45%, #285748);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #92cdba, #7DA5C3);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92cdba, #CD92A5);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #D1EAE2 0%, #92cdba 45%, #285748 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F5FAF8, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #B5DDB9 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #A7CAD7 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #285748 0%, transparent 65%), #92cdba;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #92cdba

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.

#92cdba 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 11.66:1.

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.

#92cdba, answered

What color is #92cdba?

#92cdba is a light soft cyan, closest to Medium Aqua Marine (ΔE2000 7.1). It sits at 161° on the hue wheel with 37% saturation and 69% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #92cdba?

rgb(146, 205, 186) — 146 red, 205 green and 186 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 80.4% / 72.9% by channel.

What is #92cdba in HSL and HSV?

hsl(161, 37%, 69%) and hsv(161, 29%, 80%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #92cdba a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.5332 and perceived brightness is 73%, so black text on it reaches 11.66:1.

Should I use black or white text on #92cdba?

Black. It scores 11.66:1 against #92cdba, versus 1.80:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #92cdba accessible on a white background?

#92cdba on white scores 1.80:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #3B816A to reach 4.5:1, or #2D6150 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #92cdba?

#CD92A5 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #CD92C2 and #CD9C92, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #92cdba?

For interface work: #F5FAF8 as the surface, #C7E5DC for borders, #4B9B81 for secondary text, #903C6C as an accent and #285748 for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #92CD9C and #92C2CD stays calm, while #CD92A5 is the loudest partner.

What is #92cdba in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(29%, 0%, 9%, 20%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #92cdba 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 #92CDA4; nudged cooler, #90CCCF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #92cdba?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 11.8 away. That is a visible difference, so define #92cdba as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #92cdba in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#92cdba] or text-[#92cdba], 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 #92cdba with 50% opacity?

rgba(146, 205, 186, 0.5), or #92cdba80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C9E6DD; over black, #49675D.

Is #92cdba a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99CCCC, ΔE2000 7.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #92cdba 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 #92cdba?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #BCE0D5, #92cdba 45%, #285748). For more colour, a short hue run to #7DA5C3 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #92cdba in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #92cdba at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.