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Teal Radiant Clear
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Teal Radiant Clear

Teal · Hue 160
Metrics
S 54% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.1:1Failon black10.1:1AA
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About this color

Teal Radiant Clear (#4AC99F) belongs to the teal family — hue 160°, 54% 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-teal-radiant-clear: #4AC99F;
  --colorarchive-teal-radiant-clear-hsl: hsl(160, 54%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-teal-radiant-clear-rgb: rgb(74, 201, 159);
}

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 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.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #4AC99F.

  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #4AC99F.

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

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 Tone Clear
#62D0AB · hsl(160, 54%, 60%)
Darker companion
Teal Core Clear
#38BC90 · hsl(160, 54%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Garnet Radiant Clear
#C94A75 · hsl(340, 54%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Aqua Radiant Clear
#4AC9C9 · hsl(180, 54%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Seafoam Radiant Clear
#4AC975 · hsl(140, 54%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Mulberry Radiant Clear
#9F4AC9 · hsl(280, 54%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Apricot Radiant Clear
#C99F4A · hsl(40, 54%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Peony Radiant Clear
#C94AB4 · hsl(310, 54%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Ruby Radiant Clear
#C95F4A · hsl(10, 54%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Teal Radiant Clear #4AC99F
Lighter companion: Teal Tone Clear #62D0AB
Darker companion: Teal Core Clear #38BC90
Complementary counterpoint: Garnet Radiant Clear #C94A75
Analogous lead: Aqua Radiant Clear #4AC9C9
Analogous echo: Seafoam Radiant Clear #4AC975
Triadic +120°: Mulberry Radiant Clear #9F4AC9
Triadic +240°: Apricot Radiant Clear #C99F4A
Split-comp +150°: Peony Radiant Clear #C94AB4
Split-comp +210°: Ruby Radiant Clear #C95F4A

Compare

See how Teal Radiant Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsTeal Tone ClearvsTeal Core ClearvsGarnet Radiant ClearvsAqua Radiant ClearvsSeafoam Radiant ClearvsMulberry Radiant Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Teal Core Clear
#38BC90 · hsl(160, 54%, 48%)
Nearby match
Teal Tone Clear
#62D0AB · hsl(160, 54%, 60%)
Nearby match
Teal Velvet Clear
#31A57E · hsl(160, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Teal Radiant Soft
#62B297 · hsl(160, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Teal Radiant Vivid
#33E1A7 · hsl(160, 74%, 54%)
Nearby match
Teal Silk Clear
#81D9BC · hsl(160, 54%, 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
AAA7.7:1
Garnet Ink Faint
#272023
AAA7.8:1
Garnet Ink Muted
#2A1D22
AAA7.9:1
Garnet Ink Dust
#2D1A21
AAA7.9:1
Garnet Ink Soft
#301820
AAA8.1:1
Garnet Ink Clear
#37101D
AAA8.1:1
Garnet Ink Vivid
#3E091B

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#8C82AD
Protanopia
#9394AA
Tritanopia
#57B3B5
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Teal Radiant Faint#7E958E · hsl(160, 10%, 54%)Teal Radiant Muted#759F91 · hsl(160, 18%, 54%)Teal Radiant Dust#6BA894 · hsl(160, 26%, 54%)Teal Radiant Soft#62B297 · hsl(160, 34%, 54%)Teal Radiant Clear#4AC99F · hsl(160, 54%, 54%)Teal Radiant Vivid#33E1A7 · hsl(160, 74%, 54%)Teal Radiant Bright#27ECAB · hsl(160, 84%, 54%)Teal Radiant Pure#1EF6AE · hsl(160, 92%, 54%)
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