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Lagoon Bloom Muted
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Lagoon Bloom Muted

Teal · Hue 170
Metrics
S 18% · L 76%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.7:1Failon black12.6:1AA
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About this color

Lagoon Bloom Muted (#B7CDC9) belongs to the teal family — hue 170°, 18% saturation, 76% 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-lagoon-bloom-muted: #B7CDC9;
  --colorarchive-lagoon-bloom-muted-hsl: hsl(170, 18%, 76%);
  --colorarchive-lagoon-bloom-muted-rgb: rgb(183, 205, 201);
}

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 pale, gentle tone — pastel territory, where the hue acts more like a tinted neutral than a stated color.

Lightness band: At this lightness the hue almost recedes into the surface around it — useful for backgrounds, hover states, and any surface where the color should suggest a mood without competing with content.

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #B7CDC9.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Mid Gray · #B0AEA5
    →
  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #B7CDC9.

  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →
  • France (Paris)Lutetian Limestone
    #E5DDC8 · Paris facade stone (Haussmannian-era buildings)
    →
  • IcelandLopapeysa Cream
    #E8DFCC · Undyed Icelandic sheep wool
    →

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
Lagoon Pearl Muted
#CFDEDB · hsl(170, 18%, 84%)
Darker companion
Lagoon Silk Muted
#9FBCB7 · hsl(170, 18%, 68%)
Complementary counterpoint
Merlot Bloom Muted
#CDB7BA · hsl(350, 18%, 76%)
Analogous lead
Cerulean Bloom Muted
#B7C9CD · hsl(190, 18%, 76%)
Analogous echo
Celadon Bloom Muted
#B7CDC0 · hsl(145, 18%, 76%)
Triadic +120°
Magenta Bloom Muted
#C9B7CD · hsl(290, 18%, 76%)
Triadic +240°
Amber Bloom Muted
#CDC9B7 · hsl(50, 18%, 76%)
Split-comp +150°
Rose Bloom Muted
#CDB7C5 · hsl(320, 18%, 76%)
Split-comp +210°
Ember Bloom Muted
#CDBEB7 · hsl(20, 18%, 76%)
Export preview
Base: Lagoon Bloom Muted #B7CDC9
Lighter companion: Lagoon Pearl Muted #CFDEDB
Darker companion: Lagoon Silk Muted #9FBCB7
Complementary counterpoint: Merlot Bloom Muted #CDB7BA
Analogous lead: Cerulean Bloom Muted #B7C9CD
Analogous echo: Celadon Bloom Muted #B7CDC0
Triadic +120°: Magenta Bloom Muted #C9B7CD
Triadic +240°: Amber Bloom Muted #CDC9B7
Split-comp +150°: Rose Bloom Muted #CDB7C5
Split-comp +210°: Ember Bloom Muted #CDBEB7

Compare

See how Lagoon Bloom Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsLagoon Pearl MutedvsLagoon Silk MutedvsMerlot Bloom MutedvsCerulean Bloom MutedvsCeladon Bloom MutedvsMagenta Bloom Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Lagoon Bloom Faint
#BCC8C6 · hsl(170, 10%, 76%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Bloom Dust
#B2D2CC · hsl(170, 26%, 76%)
Nearby match
Cyan Bloom Muted
#B7CDCB · hsl(175, 18%, 76%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Silk Muted
#9FBCB7 · hsl(170, 18%, 68%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Pearl Muted
#CFDEDB · hsl(170, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Bloom Soft
#ADD7D0 · hsl(170, 34%, 76%)

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
AAA7.9:1
Merlot Nocturne Faint
#382E30
AAA8.1:1
Merlot Nocturne Muted
#3C2A2D
AAA8.2:1
Merlot Nocturne Dust
#40262A
AAA8.4:1
Merlot Nocturne Soft
#442227
AAA8.5:1
Merlot Nocturne Clear
#4F1721
AAA8.4:1
Merlot Nocturne Vivid
#590D1A

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#C0BECA
Protanopia
#C1C1CA
Tritanopia
#B8CBCB
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Lagoon Bloom Faint#BCC8C6 · hsl(170, 10%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Muted#B7CDC9 · hsl(170, 18%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Dust#B2D2CC · hsl(170, 26%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Soft#ADD7D0 · hsl(170, 34%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Clear#A1E3D8 · hsl(170, 54%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Vivid#95EFE0 · hsl(170, 74%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Bright#8EF5E4 · hsl(170, 84%, 76%)Lagoon Bloom Pure#89FAE7 · hsl(170, 92%, 76%)
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