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Cyan Tone Bright

Teal · Hue 175
Metrics
S 84% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.4:1Failon black14.7:1AA
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About this color

Cyan Tone Bright (#43EFE0) belongs to the teal family — hue 175°, 84% saturation, 60% 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-tone-bright: #43EFE0;
  --colorarchive-cyan-tone-bright-hsl: hsl(175, 84%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-cyan-tone-bright-rgb: rgb(67, 239, 224);
}

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 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 #43EFE0.

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

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #43EFE0.

  • 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.

Color PsychologyColor and Memory: Using Nostalgic Palettes in DesignColor TheorySeasonal Color Analysis Guide: Understanding Your Personal Color SeasonColor TheorySurface Finish and Color Perception: How Matte, Satin, and Gloss Change What You See

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 Silk Bright
#69F2E7 · hsl(175, 84%, 68%)
Darker companion
Cyan Radiant Bright
#27ECDC · hsl(175, 84%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Tone Bright
#EF4343 · hsl(0, 84%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Azure Tone Bright
#43B6EF · hsl(200, 84%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Jade Tone Bright
#43EF99 · hsl(150, 84%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Magenta Tone Bright
#D243EF · hsl(290, 84%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Canary Tone Bright
#EFE043 · hsl(55, 84%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Rose Tone Bright
#EF43B6 · hsl(320, 84%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Tangerine Tone Bright
#EF8B43 · hsl(25, 84%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Cyan Tone Bright #43EFE0
Lighter companion: Cyan Silk Bright #69F2E7
Darker companion: Cyan Radiant Bright #27ECDC
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Tone Bright #EF4343
Analogous lead: Azure Tone Bright #43B6EF
Analogous echo: Jade Tone Bright #43EF99
Triadic +120°: Magenta Tone Bright #D243EF
Triadic +240°: Canary Tone Bright #EFE043
Split-comp +150°: Rose Tone Bright #EF43B6
Split-comp +210°: Tangerine Tone Bright #EF8B43

Compare

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

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

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Cyan Tone Pure
#3BF7E7 · hsl(175, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Bright
#27ECDC · hsl(175, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Cyan Tone Vivid
#4EE4D8 · hsl(175, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Tone Bright
#43EFD2 · hsl(170, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Aqua Tone Bright
#43EFEF · hsl(180, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Silk Bright
#69F2E7 · hsl(175, 84%, 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
#A194E5
Protanopia
#ABACE4
Tritanopia
#58E7E7
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Cyan Tone Faint#8FA3A2 · hsl(175, 10%, 60%)Cyan Tone Muted#87ABA8 · hsl(175, 18%, 60%)Cyan Tone Dust#7EB4AF · hsl(175, 26%, 60%)Cyan Tone Soft#76BCB6 · hsl(175, 34%, 60%)Cyan Tone Clear#62D0C7 · hsl(175, 54%, 60%)Cyan Tone Vivid#4EE4D8 · hsl(175, 74%, 60%)Cyan Tone Bright#43EFE0 · hsl(175, 84%, 60%)Cyan Tone Pure#3BF7E7 · hsl(175, 92%, 60%)
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