Turquoise

Hex #40E0D0, rgb(64 224 208). A cyan or teal CSS named color.

Turquoise#40E0D0

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About Turquoise

Turquoise is a light saturated cyan-teal with the hex code #40E0D0. In RGB it is made of 64 red, 224 green and 208 blue; in HSL its hue is 174°, with 72% saturation and 56% lightness. Its perceptual lightness (OKLCH L) is 82.2%.

It is a CSS named color, so you can write "turquoise" anywhere CSS accepts a color. Against white it has a contrast ratio of 1.64:1 and against black 12.79:1, so black text reads better on it and passes WCAG AA for normal text.

Tints, shades and tones

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

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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 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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Monochromatic

Contrast and readability

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

Turquoise textSmall text on white

On white1.64:1

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

APCA Lc 28

Turquoise textSmall text on black

On black12.79:1

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

APCA Lc -75

Black text on Turquoise (#000000)

Test any pair in the contrast checker.

Color blindness preview

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

Protanopia#D5D3D0
Deuteranopia#BEC3D2
Tritanopia#00E5DB
Protanomaly#BBD5D0
Deuteranomaly#ADCBD1
Tritanomaly#00E2D5
Achromatopsia#CACACA

Colors similar to Turquoise

The closest named colors by perceptual difference (OKLab).

Use Turquoise in CSS and Tailwind

CSS

.turquoise {
  color: turquoise; /* #40E0D0 */
  background-color: rgb(64 224 208);
  border-color: oklch(82.2% 0.131 185.1);
}

Tailwind CSS

/* Tailwind CSS v4: bg-turquoise-500, text-turquoise-700... */
@theme {
  --color-turquoise-50: #EEFEFB;
  --color-turquoise-100: #D3F7F2;
  --color-turquoise-200: #A7EEE4;
  --color-turquoise-300: #40E0D0;
  --color-turquoise-400: #00B8AA;
  --color-turquoise-500: #009E92;
  --color-turquoise-600: #00877C;
  --color-turquoise-700: #006D64;
  --color-turquoise-800: #005750;
  --color-turquoise-900: #004740;
  --color-turquoise-950: #001B18;
}

<!-- or the exact color, no config -->
<div class="bg-[#40E0D0] text-[#000000]">…</div>