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Aqua Dusk Pure
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Aqua Dusk Pure

Teal · Hue 180
Metrics
S 92% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3:1Failon black7:1AA
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About this color

Aqua Dusk Pure (#07A6A6) belongs to the teal family — hue 180°, 92% saturation, 34% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-aqua-dusk-pure: #07A6A6;
  --colorarchive-aqua-dusk-pure-hsl: hsl(180, 92%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-aqua-dusk-pure-rgb: rgb(7, 166, 166);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

DeepProfessionalStable
Common in

Corporate Software · Consulting · Marine

Pairs well with

White for sharp contrast, light coral for warmth, silver for tech

Design tip

Use as a dark theme primary or sidebar background. Deep teal is less harsh than pure black while maintaining professionalism.

Cultural context ▶

Deep teal evokes deep ocean waters — stability, depth, and hidden knowledge. Common in corporate and maritime contexts.

Color Origins

Teal family

The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.

Heritage

Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, which has a stripe of this color on its head. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both copper-based pigments, flank this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) sits here too; on the statue it is mostly basic copper sulfate. Phthalo turquoise is a 20th-century pigment.

Across cultures

In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.

In the wild

Surgical scrubs are often green or teal, a choice usually explained by afterimages — staring at red tissue leaves green ghosts on white surfaces, which blend into blue-green cloth. Tiffany Blue, a robin's-egg blue-green, was trademarked in 1998 and later standardized with Pantone as '1837 Blue', after the company's founding year.

How it reads

Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).

This particular tone

A jewel tone — saturated and dark at once. This is the register of velvet, deep enamel, and old-world luxury.

Lightness band: At this depth the hue starts behaving like a neutral — it can substitute for black in many contexts while still carrying a faint chromatic temperature. It pairs especially well with off-whites and warm metallics.

Saturation band: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #07A6A6.

  • Airbnbsecondary
    Babu Teal · #00A699
    →
  • OpenAIaccent
    ChatGPT Green · #10A37F
    →
  • PlayStationaccent
    Triangle Green · #1FAA8C
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #07A6A6.

  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →
  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →
  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal and color in design.

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Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Aqua Velvet Pure
#09CECE · hsl(180, 92%, 42%)
Darker companion
Aqua Shadow Pure
#068989 · hsl(180, 92%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Dusk Pure
#A60707 · hsl(0, 92%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Steel Dusk Pure
#0764A6 · hsl(205, 92%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Teal Dusk Pure
#07A671 · hsl(160, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Fuchsia Dusk Pure
#A607A6 · hsl(300, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Citrine Dusk Pure
#A6A607 · hsl(60, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Blush Dusk Pure
#A60757 · hsl(330, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Coral Dusk Pure
#A65707 · hsl(30, 92%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Aqua Dusk Pure #07A6A6
Lighter companion: Aqua Velvet Pure #09CECE
Darker companion: Aqua Shadow Pure #068989
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Dusk Pure #A60707
Analogous lead: Steel Dusk Pure #0764A6
Analogous echo: Teal Dusk Pure #07A671
Triadic +120°: Fuchsia Dusk Pure #A607A6
Triadic +240°: Citrine Dusk Pure #A6A607
Split-comp +150°: Blush Dusk Pure #A60757
Split-comp +210°: Coral Dusk Pure #A65707

Compare

See how Aqua Dusk Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsAqua Velvet PurevsAqua Shadow PurevsCrimson Dusk PurevsSteel Dusk PurevsTeal Dusk PurevsFuchsia Dusk Pure

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Aqua Dusk Bright
#0EA0A0 · hsl(180, 84%, 34%)
Nearby match
Aqua Shadow Pure
#068989 · hsl(180, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Cyan Dusk Pure
#07A699 · hsl(175, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Aqua Velvet Pure
#09CECE · hsl(180, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Aqua Shadow Bright
#0B8383 · hsl(180, 84%, 28%)
Nearby match
Aqua Dusk Vivid
#179797 · hsl(180, 74%, 34%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AA4.5:1
Crimson Nocturne Muted
#3C2A2A
AA4.6:1
Crimson Nocturne Dust
#402626
AA4.7:1
Crimson Nocturne Soft
#442222
AA4.8:1
Crimson Nocturne Clear
#4F1717
AA4.7:1
Crimson Nocturne Vivid
#590D0D
AA4.6:1
Crimson Nocturne Bright
#5E0808

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6A60A6
Protanopia
#7172A6
Tritanopia
#28A6A6
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Aqua Dusk Faint#4E5F5F · hsl(180, 10%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Muted#476666 · hsl(180, 18%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Dust#406D6D · hsl(180, 26%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Soft#397474 · hsl(180, 34%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Clear#288686 · hsl(180, 54%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Vivid#179797 · hsl(180, 74%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Bright#0EA0A0 · hsl(180, 84%, 34%)Aqua Dusk Pure#07A6A6 · hsl(180, 92%, 34%)
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