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Medium Turquoise

Hex #48D1CC, rgb(72 209 204). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

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About Medium Turquoise

Medium Turquoise is a light moderately saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #48D1CC. In RGB it is made of 72 red, 209 green and 204 blue; in HSL its hue is 178°, with 60% saturation and 55% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 78.7%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "mediumturquoise" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.86:1 and against black 11.27:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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Medium 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 Medium 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 Medium Turquoise with white and black. The readable text color on Medium Turquoise is black.

Medium Turquoise textSmall text on white

On white1.86:1

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

APCA Lc 35

Medium Turquoise textSmall text on black

On black11.27:1

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

APCA Lc -68

Black text on Medium Turquoise (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

  • Protanopia#C5C7CC
  • Deuteranopia#B0B7CD
  • Tritanopia#00D7CF
  • Protanomaly#AEC8CC
  • Deuteranomaly#A1BFCD
  • Tritanomaly#13D3CD
  • Achromatopsia#BEBEBE

Colors similar to Medium Turquoise

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Medium Turquoise in CSS and Tailwind

CSS
.medium-turquoise {
  color: mediumturquoise; /* #48D1CC */
  background-color: rgb(72 209 204);
  border-color: oklch(78.7% 0.116 191.6);
}
Tailwind CSS
/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-medium-turquoise-500, text-medium-turquoise-700... */
@theme {
  --color-medium-turquoise-50: #F0FEFC;
  --color-medium-turquoise-100: #D3F4F2;
  --color-medium-turquoise-200: #A7E6E2;
  --color-medium-turquoise-300: #48D1CC;
  --color-medium-turquoise-400: #00ADA9;
  --color-medium-turquoise-500: #009591;
  --color-medium-turquoise-600: #00807C;
  --color-medium-turquoise-700: #006764;
  --color-medium-turquoise-800: #005350;
  --color-medium-turquoise-900: #004342;
  --color-medium-turquoise-950: #001B1A;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#48D1CC] text-[#000000]">…</div>