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Teal Pearl Soft
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Teal Pearl Soft

Teal · Hue 160
Metrics
S 34% · L 84%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.3:1Failon black15.6:1AA
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About this color

Teal Pearl Soft (#C8E4DB) belongs to the teal family — hue 160°, 34% saturation, 84% 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-teal-pearl-soft: #C8E4DB;
  --colorarchive-teal-pearl-soft-hsl: hsl(160, 34%, 84%);
  --colorarchive-teal-pearl-soft-rgb: rgb(200, 228, 219);
}

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 bright, airy reading of the hue — clean and approachable, the kind of color that holds up well in product photography and on light backgrounds.

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 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.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #C8E4DB.

  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Anthropicneutral
    Light Gray · #E8E6DC
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #C8E4DB.

  • France (Paris)Lutetian Limestone
    #E5DDC8 · Paris facade stone (Haussmannian-era buildings)
    →
  • IcelandLopapeysa Cream
    #E8DFCC · Undyed Icelandic sheep wool
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Hanji Cream
    #EAE0CB · Mulberry-fiber Korean paper
    →

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
Teal Mist Soft
#DDEEE8 · hsl(160, 34%, 90%)
Darker companion
Teal Bloom Soft
#ADD7C9 · hsl(160, 34%, 76%)
Complementary counterpoint
Garnet Pearl Soft
#E4C8D2 · hsl(340, 34%, 84%)
Analogous lead
Aqua Pearl Soft
#C8E4E4 · hsl(180, 34%, 84%)
Analogous echo
Seafoam Pearl Soft
#C8E4D2 · hsl(140, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +120°
Mulberry Pearl Soft
#DBC8E4 · hsl(280, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +240°
Apricot Pearl Soft
#E4DBC8 · hsl(40, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +150°
Peony Pearl Soft
#E4C8DF · hsl(310, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +210°
Ruby Pearl Soft
#E4CDC8 · hsl(10, 34%, 84%)
Export preview
Base: Teal Pearl Soft #C8E4DB
Lighter companion: Teal Mist Soft #DDEEE8
Darker companion: Teal Bloom Soft #ADD7C9
Complementary counterpoint: Garnet Pearl Soft #E4C8D2
Analogous lead: Aqua Pearl Soft #C8E4E4
Analogous echo: Seafoam Pearl Soft #C8E4D2
Triadic +120°: Mulberry Pearl Soft #DBC8E4
Triadic +240°: Apricot Pearl Soft #E4DBC8
Split-comp +150°: Peony Pearl Soft #E4C8DF
Split-comp +210°: Ruby Pearl Soft #E4CDC8

Compare

See how Teal Pearl Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsTeal Mist SoftvsTeal Bloom SoftvsGarnet Pearl SoftvsAqua Pearl SoftvsSeafoam Pearl SoftvsMulberry Pearl Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Teal Pearl Dust
#CCE1DA · hsl(160, 26%, 84%)
Nearby match
Teal Mist Soft
#DDEEE8 · hsl(160, 34%, 90%)
Nearby match
Teal Bloom Soft
#ADD7C9 · hsl(160, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Teal Pearl Muted
#CFDED9 · hsl(160, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Teal Whisper Soft
#EAF5F1 · hsl(160, 34%, 94%)
Nearby match
Teal Mist Dust
#DFECE8 · hsl(160, 26%, 90%)

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
AAA7.2:1
Garnet Shadow Faint
#4F4045
AAA7.5:1
Garnet Shadow Muted
#543B43
AAA7.7:1
Garnet Shadow Dust
#5A3541
AAA7.9:1
Garnet Shadow Soft
#602F3F
AAA8:1
Garnet Shadow Clear
#6E213B
AAA7.8:1
Garnet Shadow Vivid
#7C1336

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#D3D1DE
Protanopia
#D5D5DD
Tritanopia
#CADFDF
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Teal Pearl Faint#D2DAD8 · hsl(160, 10%, 84%)Teal Pearl Muted#CFDED9 · hsl(160, 18%, 84%)Teal Pearl Dust#CCE1DA · hsl(160, 26%, 84%)Teal Pearl Soft#C8E4DB · hsl(160, 34%, 84%)Teal Pearl Clear#C0ECDE · hsl(160, 54%, 84%)Teal Pearl Vivid#B8F4E0 · hsl(160, 74%, 84%)Teal Pearl Bright#B4F8E2 · hsl(160, 84%, 84%)Teal Pearl Pure#B1FCE3 · hsl(160, 92%, 84%)
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