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Aqua Silk Vivid
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Aqua Silk Vivid

Teal · Hue 180
Metrics
S 74% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.4:1Failon black14.7:1AA
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About this color

Aqua Silk Vivid (#71EAEA) belongs to the teal family — hue 180°, 74% saturation, 68% 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-silk-vivid: #71EAEA;
  --colorarchive-aqua-silk-vivid-hsl: hsl(180, 74%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-aqua-silk-vivid-rgb: rgb(113, 234, 234);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

RefreshingModernClear
Common in

SaaS · Cloud Services · Interior Design

Pairs well with

Coral for playful energy, light gray for modern minimalism

Design tip

Ideal for tech product interfaces. Light teal works as a primary brand color that feels both professional and approachable.

Cultural context ▶

Light teal blends the calm of blue with the renewal of green. Associated with clear water, clarity, and modern thinking.

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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: 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 #71EAEA.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • TikTokaccent
    TikTok Cyan · #25F4EE
    →
  • Douyin 抖音accent
    Cyan · #25F4EE
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #71EAEA.

  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • 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 Bloom Vivid
#95EFEF · hsl(180, 74%, 76%)
Darker companion
Aqua Tone Vivid
#4EE4E4 · hsl(180, 74%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Silk Vivid
#EA7171 · hsl(0, 74%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Steel Silk Vivid
#71B7EA · hsl(205, 74%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Teal Silk Vivid
#71EAC2 · hsl(160, 74%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Fuchsia Silk Vivid
#EA71EA · hsl(300, 74%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Citrine Silk Vivid
#EAEA71 · hsl(60, 74%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Blush Silk Vivid
#EA71AD · hsl(330, 74%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Coral Silk Vivid
#EAAD71 · hsl(30, 74%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Aqua Silk Vivid #71EAEA
Lighter companion: Aqua Bloom Vivid #95EFEF
Darker companion: Aqua Tone Vivid #4EE4E4
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Silk Vivid #EA7171
Analogous lead: Steel Silk Vivid #71B7EA
Analogous echo: Teal Silk Vivid #71EAC2
Triadic +120°: Fuchsia Silk Vivid #EA71EA
Triadic +240°: Citrine Silk Vivid #EAEA71
Split-comp +150°: Blush Silk Vivid #EA71AD
Split-comp +210°: Coral Silk Vivid #EAAD71

Compare

See how Aqua Silk Vivid compares side by side with related colors.

vsAqua Bloom VividvsAqua Tone VividvsCrimson Silk VividvsSteel Silk VividvsTeal Silk VividvsFuchsia Silk Vivid

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Aqua Silk Bright
#69F2F2 · hsl(180, 84%, 68%)
Nearby match
Cyan Silk Vivid
#71EAE0 · hsl(175, 74%, 68%)
Nearby match
Aqua Tone Vivid
#4EE4E4 · hsl(180, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Aqua Bloom Vivid
#95EFEF · hsl(180, 74%, 76%)
Nearby match
Aqua Silk Pure
#62F8F8 · hsl(180, 92%, 68%)
Nearby match
Aqua Silk Clear
#81D9D9 · hsl(180, 54%, 68%)

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
AAA7.1:1
Crimson Shadow Muted
#543B3B
AAA7.3:1
Crimson Shadow Dust
#5A3535
AAA7.5:1
Crimson Shadow Soft
#602F2F
AAA7.7:1
Crimson Shadow Clear
#6E2121
AAA7.5:1
Crimson Shadow Vivid
#7C1313
AAA7.3:1
Crimson Shadow Bright
#830B0B

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#ACA2EA
Protanopia
#B3B4EA
Tritanopia
#7BEAEA
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Saturation ladder

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Aqua Silk Faint#A5B6B6 · hsl(180, 10%, 68%)Aqua Silk Muted#9FBCBC · hsl(180, 18%, 68%)Aqua Silk Dust#98C3C3 · hsl(180, 26%, 68%)Aqua Silk Soft#92C9C9 · hsl(180, 34%, 68%)Aqua Silk Clear#81D9D9 · hsl(180, 54%, 68%)Aqua Silk Vivid#71EAEA · hsl(180, 74%, 68%)Aqua Silk Bright#69F2F2 · hsl(180, 84%, 68%)Aqua Silk Pure#62F8F8 · hsl(180, 92%, 68%)
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