Pale Turquoise

Hex #AFEEEE, rgb(175 238 238). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

Pale Turquoise#AFEEEE

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About Pale Turquoise

Pale Turquoise is a very light moderately saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #AFEEEE. In RGB it is made of 175 red, 238 green and 238 blue; in HSL its hue is 180°, with 65% saturation and 81% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 90.7%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "paleturquoise" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.29:1 and against black 16.29:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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

Pale Turquoise textSmall text on white

On white1.29:1

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

APCA Lc 14

Pale Turquoise textSmall text on black

On black16.29:1

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

APCA Lc -90

Black text on Pale Turquoise (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#E6E8EE
Deuteranopia#DADFEF
Tritanopia#99F2EE
Protanomaly#D9E9EE
Deuteranomaly#D2E3EF
Tritanomaly#A7F0EE
Achromatopsia#E3E3E3

Colors similar to Pale Turquoise

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Pale Turquoise in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.pale-turquoise {
  color: paleturquoise; /* #AFEEEE */
  background-color: rgb(175 238 238);
  border-color: oklch(90.7% 0.063 196.1);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-pale-turquoise-500, text-pale-turquoise-700... */
@theme {
  --color-pale-turquoise-50: #EFFDFD;
  --color-pale-turquoise-100: #D7F7F7;
  --color-pale-turquoise-200: #AFEEEE;
  --color-pale-turquoise-300: #54DBDD;
  --color-pale-turquoise-400: #00B6B8;
  --color-pale-turquoise-500: #009C9D;
  --color-pale-turquoise-600: #008587;
  --color-pale-turquoise-700: #006B6C;
  --color-pale-turquoise-800: #005657;
  --color-pale-turquoise-900: #004646;
  --color-pale-turquoise-950: #001B1B;
}

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