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Cyan Radiant Bright

Teal · Hue 175
Metrics
S 84% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.5:1Failon black14.1:1AA
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About this color

Cyan Radiant Bright (#27ECDC) belongs to the teal family — hue 175°, 84% 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-cyan-radiant-bright: #27ECDC;
  --colorarchive-cyan-radiant-bright-hsl: hsl(175, 84%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-cyan-radiant-bright-rgb: rgb(39, 236, 220);
}

AI Color Names

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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 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 #27ECDC.

  • TikTokaccent
    TikTok Cyan · #25F4EE
    →
  • Douyin 抖音accent
    Cyan · #25F4EE
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Blue · #36C5F0
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #27ECDC.

  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal and color in design.

AccessibilityWCAG Color Accessibility Guide: Contrast Ratios, Color-Blind Design, and What You Actually Need to KnowAccessibilityColor Contrast Checker: Understanding WCAG Requirements and How to Apply ThemColor TheoryDark Color Palette Guide: Building Low-Luminance Palettes That Work

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
Cyan Tone Bright
#43EFE0 · hsl(175, 84%, 60%)
Darker companion
Cyan Core Bright
#14E1D0 · hsl(175, 84%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Radiant Bright
#EC2727 · hsl(0, 84%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Azure Radiant Bright
#27ABEC · hsl(200, 84%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Jade Radiant Bright
#27EC8A · hsl(150, 84%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Magenta Radiant Bright
#CB27EC · hsl(290, 84%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Canary Radiant Bright
#ECDC27 · hsl(55, 84%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Rose Radiant Bright
#EC27AB · hsl(320, 84%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Tangerine Radiant Bright
#EC7927 · hsl(25, 84%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Cyan Radiant Bright #27ECDC
Lighter companion: Cyan Tone Bright #43EFE0
Darker companion: Cyan Core Bright #14E1D0
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Radiant Bright #EC2727
Analogous lead: Azure Radiant Bright #27ABEC
Analogous echo: Jade Radiant Bright #27EC8A
Triadic +120°: Magenta Radiant Bright #CB27EC
Triadic +240°: Canary Radiant Bright #ECDC27
Split-comp +150°: Rose Radiant Bright #EC27AB
Split-comp +210°: Tangerine Radiant Bright #EC7927

Compare

See how Cyan Radiant Bright compares side by side with related colors.

vsCyan Tone BrightvsCyan Core BrightvsCrimson Radiant BrightvsAzure Radiant BrightvsJade Radiant BrightvsMagenta Radiant Bright

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Pure
#1EF6E4 · hsl(175, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Cyan Core Bright
#14E1D0 · hsl(175, 84%, 48%)
Nearby match
Cyan Tone Bright
#43EFE0 · hsl(175, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Vivid
#33E1D2 · hsl(175, 74%, 54%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Radiant Bright
#27ECCB · hsl(170, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Radiant Bright
#27ECEC · hsl(180, 84%, 54%)

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 Dust
#5A3535
AAA7.3:1
Crimson Shadow Soft
#602F2F
AAA7.4:1
Crimson Shadow Clear
#6E2121
AAA7.2:1
Crimson Shadow Vivid
#7C1313
AAA7:1
Crimson Shadow Bright
#830B0B
AAA8.8:1
Crimson Nocturne Faint
#382E2E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#9B8DE1
Protanopia
#A5A6E0
Tritanopia
#46E3E4
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Saturation ladder

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Cyan Radiant Faint#7E9593 · hsl(175, 10%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Muted#759F9B · hsl(175, 18%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Dust#6BA8A3 · hsl(175, 26%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Soft#62B2AB · hsl(175, 34%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Clear#4AC9BE · hsl(175, 54%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Vivid#33E1D2 · hsl(175, 74%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Bright#27ECDC · hsl(175, 84%, 54%)Cyan Radiant Pure#1EF6E4 · hsl(175, 92%, 54%)
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