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Dark Cyan

Hex #008B8B, rgb(0 139 139). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

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About Dark Cyan

Dark Cyan is a medium moderately saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #008B8B. In RGB it is made of 0 red, 139 green and 139 blue; in HSL its hue is 180°, with 100% saturation and 27% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 57.7%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkcyan" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 4.15:1 and against black 5.07:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

Dark Cyan mixed step by step with white, black and middle gray (#808080).

Tints (with white)

Shades (with black)

Tones (with gray)

Dark Cyan 50-950 scale

A Tailwind-style scale built in OKLCH; the original color sits on the step with the closest lightness.

Colors that go with Dark Cyan

Color harmonies rotate the hue in OKLCH and keep the lightness and chroma. Each color links to its closest named color.

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

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Square

Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

WCAG 2 contrast of Dark Cyan with white and black. The readable text color on Dark Cyan is black.

Dark Cyan textSmall text on white

On white4.15:1

  • AA fail
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc 68

Dark Cyan textSmall text on black

On black5.07:1

  • AA pass
  • AA Large pass
  • AAA fail
  • UI 3:1 pass

APCA Lc -34

Black text on Dark Cyan (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

How Dark Cyan appears with each type of color vision deficiency (simulated with the Machado model).

  • Protanopia#81838B
  • Deuteranopia#70778C
  • Tritanopia#00908B
  • Protanomaly#6F848B
  • Deuteranomaly#657D8C
  • Tritanomaly#008D8B
  • Achromatopsia#7C7C7C

Colors similar to Dark Cyan

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Cyan in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.dark-cyan {
  color: darkcyan; /* #008B8B */
  background-color: rgb(0 139 139);
  border-color: oklch(57.7% 0.098 194.8);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-cyan-500, text-dark-cyan-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-cyan-50: #F5FCFB;
  --color-dark-cyan-100: #E2F2F1;
  --color-dark-cyan-200: #C7E3E3;
  --color-dark-cyan-300: #99CFCE;
  --color-dark-cyan-400: #58B2B1;
  --color-dark-cyan-500: #239F9F;
  --color-dark-cyan-600: #008B8B;
  --color-dark-cyan-700: #006F6F;
  --color-dark-cyan-800: #025959;
  --color-dark-cyan-900: #074747;
  --color-dark-cyan-950: #001B1B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#008B8B] text-[#000000]">…</div>