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Aqua Radiant Soft
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Aqua Radiant Soft

Teal · Hue 180
Metrics
S 34% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.5:1Failon black8.5:1AA
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About this color

Aqua Radiant Soft (#62B2B2) belongs to the teal family — hue 180°, 34% saturation, 54% 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-radiant-soft: #62B2B2;
  --colorarchive-aqua-radiant-soft-hsl: hsl(180, 34%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-aqua-radiant-soft-rgb: rgb(98, 178, 178);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

SophisticatedCreativeBalanced
Common in

Design Agencies · Healthcare Tech · Education

Pairs well with

Warm orange for complementary energy, dark slate for depth

Design tip

A versatile primary color for brands seeking to appear both creative and reliable. Works across light and dark themes.

Cultural context ▶

Teal balances emotional stability with mental clarity. It's associated with communication and healing in color therapy.

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where many brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where many identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is a common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #62B2B2.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Blue · #6A9BCC
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #62B2B2.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →
  • China (Traditional)Jade Green (碧玉)
    #5F9EA0 · Hetian and Burmese jadeite
    →

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 Tone Soft
#76BCBC · hsl(180, 34%, 60%)
Darker companion
Aqua Core Soft
#51A4A4 · hsl(180, 34%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Radiant Soft
#B26262 · hsl(0, 34%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Steel Radiant Soft
#6290B2 · hsl(205, 34%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Teal Radiant Soft
#62B297 · hsl(160, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Fuchsia Radiant Soft
#B262B2 · hsl(300, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Citrine Radiant Soft
#B2B262 · hsl(60, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Blush Radiant Soft
#B2628A · hsl(330, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Coral Radiant Soft
#B28A62 · hsl(30, 34%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Aqua Radiant Soft #62B2B2
Lighter companion: Aqua Tone Soft #76BCBC
Darker companion: Aqua Core Soft #51A4A4
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Radiant Soft #B26262
Analogous lead: Steel Radiant Soft #6290B2
Analogous echo: Teal Radiant Soft #62B297
Triadic +120°: Fuchsia Radiant Soft #B262B2
Triadic +240°: Citrine Radiant Soft #B2B262
Split-comp +150°: Blush Radiant Soft #B2628A
Split-comp +210°: Coral Radiant Soft #B28A62

Compare

See how Aqua Radiant Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsAqua Tone SoftvsAqua Core SoftvsCrimson Radiant SoftvsSteel Radiant SoftvsTeal Radiant SoftvsFuchsia Radiant Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Aqua Radiant Dust
#6BA8A8 · hsl(180, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Core Soft
#51A4A4 · hsl(180, 34%, 48%)
Nearby match
Aqua Tone Soft
#76BCBC · hsl(180, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Soft
#62B2AB · hsl(175, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Radiant Muted
#759F9F · hsl(180, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Core Dust
#5B9A9A · hsl(180, 26%, 48%)

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
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Vivid
#2D093E
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Bright
#2E0642
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Pure
#2F0345
AAA7.1:1
Plum Ink Clear
#241037
AAA7.2:1
Plum Ink Vivid
#24093E
AAA7.2:1
Plum Ink Bright
#240642

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#8781B2
Protanopia
#8C8DB2
Tritanopia
#68B2B2
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Aqua Radiant Faint#7E9595 · hsl(180, 10%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Muted#759F9F · hsl(180, 18%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Dust#6BA8A8 · hsl(180, 26%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Soft#62B2B2 · hsl(180, 34%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Clear#4AC9C9 · hsl(180, 54%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Vivid#33E1E1 · hsl(180, 74%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Bright#27ECEC · hsl(180, 84%, 54%)Aqua Radiant Pure#1EF6F6 · hsl(180, 92%, 54%)
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