Cyan Ink Soft (#18302E) belongs to the teal family — hue 175°, 34% saturation, 14% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.
:root { --colorarchive-cyan-ink-soft: #18302E; --colorarchive-cyan-ink-soft-hsl: hsl(175, 34%, 14%); --colorarchive-cyan-ink-soft-rgb: rgb(24, 48, 46); }
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Corporate Software · Consulting · Marine
White for sharp contrast, light coral for warmth, silver for tech
Use as a dark theme primary or sidebar background. Deep teal is less harsh than pure black while maintaining professionalism.
Deep teal evokes deep ocean waters — stability, depth, and hidden knowledge. Common in corporate and maritime contexts.
The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.
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.
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.
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.
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).
A deep, weighted version of the hue — formal, considered, and pairs especially well with off-white and warm metallic accents.
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: 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.
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Base: Cyan Ink Soft #18302E Lighter companion: Cyan Nocturne Soft #224441 Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Ink Soft #301818 Analogous lead: Azure Ink Soft #182830 Analogous echo: Jade Ink Soft #183024 Triadic +120°: Magenta Ink Soft #2C1830 Triadic +240°: Canary Ink Soft #302E18 Split-comp +150°: Rose Ink Soft #301828 Split-comp +210°: Tangerine Ink Soft #302218
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