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#92ebdb

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

Token name suggestion: Meadow Teal

RGB
146, 235, 219
HSL
169°, 69%, 75%
CMYK
38, 0, 7, 8
Luminance
0.7064

#92ebdb is a light vivid cyan, 169° on the wheel and 83/100 on the cool side. Put black text on it (15.13:1). As text it scores 1.39:1 on white — use #188471 instead. Nearest name is Turquoise, nearest Tailwind family is teal.

hsl(169 69% 75%)rgb(146 235 219)Base step 300AAA inkCool

At a glance

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

Hex
#92ebdb
Hue
169°
cyan
Saturation
69%
vivid
Lightness
75%
light
Brightness
92%
HSV value
Perceived
83%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.7064
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
83/100 cool
Color family
Cyan
Tone
Vivid
Best ink
Black
15.13:1
Closest name
Turquoise
ΔE2000 6.8
Chroma
30.3
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.879
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
teal
500 · ΔE 14.9
Web-safe
#99FFCC
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue169° of 360°
Saturation69%
Lightness75%
Saturation × lightness field

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

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool83% 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%
Green84%
Blue7%

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

Every format

HEX#92ebdb
HEX (8-digit)#92ebdbff
RGBrgb(146, 235, 219)
RGBArgba(146, 235, 219, 1)
HSLhsl(169, 69%, 75%)
HSV / HSBhsv(169, 38%, 92%)
HWBhwb(169 57% 8%)
CMYKcmyk(38%, 0%, 7%, 8%)
LABlab(87.3 -30.3 -0.7)
LCHlch(87.3 30.3 181.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.879 0.089 181.5)
XYZ (D65)xyz(54.34, 70.64, 77.78)
Decimal9628635
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.922 0.859)
Web-safe#99FFCC

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #92ebdb;
background-color: #92ebdb;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #92ebdb;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#92ebdb] bg-[#92ebdb]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #92ebdb;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.922, blue: 0.859)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.922, blue: 0.859, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#92EBDB</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF92EBDB)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF92EBDB)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(219, 235, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 235, 219)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 235, 219)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 235, 219)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.9216f, 0.8588f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,235,219}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #92ebdb 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #92ebdb 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#146C5C, #D3EEE9);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #92ebdb 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: #F3FBFA;
  --brand-100: #E7F8F5;
  --brand-200: #CAF2EB;
  --brand-300: #92ebdb;
  --brand-400: #71E5D0;
  --brand-500: #41DCC0;
  --brand-600: #26CFB0;
  --brand-700: #20AC93;
  --brand-800: #198A76;
  --brand-900: #166456;
  --brand-950: #0E3F36;
  --brand: #92ebdb;
  --brand-ink: #000000;
  --brand-surface: #F4FAF9;
  --brand-border: #C0EDE5;
  --brand-hover: #74E5D1;
  --brand-pressed: #56E0C7;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #142421;
    --brand-ink: #D3EEE9;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F3FBFA',
        100: '#E7F8F5',
        200: '#CAF2EB',
        300: '#92ebdb',
        400: '#71E5D0',
        500: '#41DCC0',
        600: '#26CFB0',
        700: '#20AC93',
        800: '#198A76',
        900: '#166456',
        950: '#0E3F36',
        DEFAULT: '#92ebdb',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F3FBFA,
  '100': #E7F8F5,
  '200': #CAF2EB,
  '300': #92ebdb,
  '400': #71E5D0,
  '500': #41DCC0,
  '600': #26CFB0,
  '700': #20AC93,
  '800': #198A76,
  '900': #166456,
  '950': #0E3F36,
);
$brand-base: #92ebdb;
$brand-ink: #000000;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F3FBFA", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#E7F8F5", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#CAF2EB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#92ebdb", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#71E5D0", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#41DCC0", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#26CFB0", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#20AC93", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#198A76", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#166456", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#0E3F36", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$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 #92ebdb · 15.13:1
Use #000000AAA at every size.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 1.39:1
AA fail · AA large fail · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 15.13:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA pass
Reading the other direction: #92ebdb as text scores 1.39:1 on white and 15.13:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #146C5C at 4.54:1.

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
#188471 · 4.59:1
AA on white−44% L
#188471
The quick fox
#126253 · 7.25:1
AAA on white−52% L
#126253
The quick fox
#92ebdb · 15.13:1
AA on blackalready passes
#92ebdb
The quick fox
#92ebdb · 15.13:1
AAA on blackalready passes
#92ebdb

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #1FA78E 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
#92ebdb on white: 1.39:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#92ebdb on black: 15.13:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

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

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White1.39:1AaAa
Slate 501.33:1AaAa
Slate 1001.27:1AaAa
Slate 2001.13:1AaAa
Slate 3001.07:1AaAa
Slate 4001.85:1AaAa
Slate 5003.43:1AaAa
Slate 6005.46:1AaAa
Slate 7007.46:1AaAa
Slate 80010.54:1AaAa
Slate 90012.86:1AaAa
Black15.13:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #E4E1DA
deuteranopia · #D4D6DC
tritanopia · #73EEE6

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. #92ebdb is pinned to step 300; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F3FBFA
#E7F8F5
#CAF2EB
#92ebdb
#71E5D0
#41DCC0
#26CFB0
#20AC93
#198A76
#166456
#0E3F36
Base = 300Lightest = 50 · #F3FBFADarkest = 950 · #0E3F36Text 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 0.022 181.5);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.036 181.5);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.053 181.5);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.069 181.5);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.082 181.5);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.089 181.5);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.089 181.5);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.084 181.5);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.075 181.5);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.062 181.5);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.049 181.5);
}

Colors that work with #92ebdb

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#C0EDE5
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#4B9B8C
Captions on the surface
Accent#B11B5C
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#146C5C
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#E9FBF8
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#142421
Dark-mode background
Hover#74E5D1
One step down in lightness
Pressed#56E0C7
Two steps down
Disabled#F3F7F6
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9EF4E4
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 #92ebdb

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 #146C5C
Safe as a 1px border on white
No — use #1FA78E

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
  • Weight25/100
  • 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#EB92A2
Analogous left#92EBAE
Analogous right#92CFEB
Split-complement 1#EB92CF
Split-complement 2#EBAE92
Triadic 1#DB92EB
Triadic 2#EBDB92
Tetradic#AE92EB
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°169°

#92ebdb sits at 169°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green92.2%
Blue85.9%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
235
0xeb
B · 0–255
219
0xdb

CMYK percentages

Cyan37.9%
Magenta0.0%
Yellow6.8%
Key (black)7.8%

Total ink coverage is 52%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#92ebdb text on a black background

contrast 15.13:1

Card sample

#92ebdb text on a white background

contrast 1.39:1

Card sample

#92ebdb on grey

1.27:1

#92ebdb on its own surface

1.31:1

#92ebdb on its dark surface

11.60:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

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

Glowing headline

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

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 235, 219, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 235, 219, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #92ebdb;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #92ebdb, #92C0EB);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92ebdb, #92A9EB);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #92ebdb;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #92ebdb;
caret-color: #92ebdb;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #92ebdb;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #E9FBF8;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #92ebdb;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#92ebdb 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #92ebdb 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, 235, 219, 0.5)
rgb(146 235 219 / 50%)
#92ebdb80
hsl(169 69% 75% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #92ebdb 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#92ebdb1a#F4FDFB
20%#92ebdb33#E9FBF8
40%#92ebdb66#D3F7F1
60%#92ebdb99#BEF3E9
80%#92ebdbcc#A8EFE2

Gradients from #92ebdb

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, #C6F4EC, #92ebdb 45%, #146C5C);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #92ebdb, #78A7E6);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #92ebdb, #EB92A2);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #E0F9F5 0%, #92ebdb 45%, #146C5C 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%, #BDF3CA 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #ACD4F0 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #146C5C 0%, transparent 65%), #92ebdb;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #92ebdb

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.

#92ebdb 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 15.13:1.

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.

#92ebdb, answered

What color is #92ebdb?

#92ebdb is a light vivid cyan, closest to Turquoise (ΔE2000 6.8). It sits at 169° on the hue wheel with 69% saturation and 75% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #92ebdb?

rgb(146, 235, 219) — 146 red, 235 green and 219 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 92.2% / 85.9% by channel.

What is #92ebdb in HSL and HSV?

hsl(169, 69%, 75%) and hsv(169, 38%, 92%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #92ebdb a light or a dark color?

It is a light color. Relative luminance is 0.7064 and perceived brightness is 83%, so black text on it reaches 15.13:1.

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

Black. It scores 15.13:1 against #92ebdb, versus 1.39:1 for white — AAA at any size.

Is #92ebdb accessible on a white background?

#92ebdb on white scores 1.39:1, which fails WCAG AA at every size. Darken it to #188471 to reach 4.5:1, or #126253 for 7:1.

What is the complementary color of #92ebdb?

#EB92A2 sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #EB92CF and #EBAE92, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #92ebdb?

For interface work: #F4FAF9 as the surface, #C0EDE5 for borders, #4B9B8C for secondary text, #B11B5C as an accent and #146C5C for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #92EBAE and #92CFEB stays calm, while #EB92A2 is the loudest partner.

What is #92ebdb in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(38%, 0%, 7%, 8%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — ask your printer for a proof before committing to a run.

Is #92ebdb warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 83 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #92EBBA; nudged cooler, #91DBEC.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #92ebdb?

The teal family — its 500 step is #14b8a6, ΔE2000 14.9 away. That is a visible difference, so define #92ebdb as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #92ebdb in Tailwind CSS?

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

rgba(146, 235, 219, 0.5), or #92ebdb80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C9F5ED; over black, #49766E.

Is #92ebdb a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #99FFCC, ΔE2000 10.4 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #92ebdb 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 #92ebdb?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #C6F4EC, #92ebdb 45%, #146C5C). For more colour, a short hue run to #78A7E6 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #92ebdb in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

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