Teal Core Soft (#51A488) belongs to the teal family — hue 160°, 34% saturation, 48% 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-teal-core-soft: #51A488; --colorarchive-teal-core-soft-hsl: hsl(160, 34%, 48%); --colorarchive-teal-core-soft-rgb: rgb(81, 164, 136); }
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A versatile primary color for brands seeking to appear both creative and reliable. Works across light and dark themes.
Teal balances emotional stability with mental clarity. It's associated with communication and healing in color therapy.
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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where many brand colors live.
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: 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: Teal Core Soft #51A488 Lighter companion: Teal Radiant Soft #62B297 Darker companion: Teal Velvet Soft #479077 Complementary counterpoint: Garnet Core Soft #A4516D Analogous lead: Aqua Core Soft #51A4A4 Analogous echo: Seafoam Core Soft #51A46D Triadic +120°: Mulberry Core Soft #8851A4 Triadic +240°: Apricot Core Soft #A48851 Split-comp +150°: Peony Core Soft #A45196 Split-comp +210°: Ruby Core Soft #A45F51
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