Dark Turquoise

Hex #00CED1, rgb(0 206 209). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

Dark Turquoise#00CED1

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About Dark Turquoise

Dark Turquoise is a light saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #00CED1. In RGB it is made of 0 red, 206 green and 209 blue; in HSL its hue is 181°, with 100% saturation and 41% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 77.2%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "darkturquoise" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.95:1 and against black 10.75:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Dark Turquoise 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 Turquoise

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

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Contrast and readability

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

Dark Turquoise textSmall text on white

On white1.95:1

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

APCA Lc 37

Dark Turquoise textSmall text on black

On black10.75:1

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

APCA Lc -66

Black text on Dark Turquoise (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#BFC3D2
Deuteranopia#A7B2D2
Tritanopia#00D5CE
Protanomaly#A5C5D2
Deuteranomaly#96BAD2
Tritanomaly#00D1D0
Achromatopsia#B9B9B9

Colors similar to Dark Turquoise

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Dark Turquoise in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.dark-turquoise {
  color: darkturquoise; /* #00CED1 */
  background-color: rgb(0 206 209);
  border-color: oklch(77.2% 0.131 196.6);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-dark-turquoise-500, text-dark-turquoise-700... */
@theme {
  --color-dark-turquoise-50: #EEFEFE;
  --color-dark-turquoise-100: #CEF3F3;
  --color-dark-turquoise-200: #9CE4E5;
  --color-dark-turquoise-300: #00CED1;
  --color-dark-turquoise-400: #00A8AB;
  --color-dark-turquoise-500: #009193;
  --color-dark-turquoise-600: #007C7E;
  --color-dark-turquoise-700: #006466;
  --color-dark-turquoise-800: #005152;
  --color-dark-turquoise-900: #004243;
  --color-dark-turquoise-950: #001B1B;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#00CED1] text-[#000000]">…</div>