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Teal Radiant Faint
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Teal Radiant Faint

Teal · Hue 160
Metrics
S 10% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.2:1AA Largeon black6.6:1AA
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About this color

Teal Radiant Faint (#7E958E) belongs to the teal family — hue 160°, 10% 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-faint: #7E958E;
  --colorarchive-teal-radiant-faint-hsl: hsl(160, 10%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-teal-radiant-faint-rgb: rgb(126, 149, 142);
}

AI Color Names

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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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

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 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 #7E958E.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Green · #788C5D
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7E958E.

  • AustraliaEucalyptus Blue-Green
    #7EA08C · Eucalyptus regnans / globulus foliage
    →
  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →

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 Faint
#8FA39C · hsl(160, 10%, 60%)
Darker companion
Teal Core Faint
#6E877E · hsl(160, 10%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Garnet Radiant Faint
#957E86 · hsl(340, 10%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Aqua Radiant Faint
#7E9595 · hsl(180, 10%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Seafoam Radiant Faint
#7E9586 · hsl(140, 10%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Mulberry Radiant Faint
#8E7E95 · hsl(280, 10%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Apricot Radiant Faint
#958E7E · hsl(40, 10%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Peony Radiant Faint
#957E92 · hsl(310, 10%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Ruby Radiant Faint
#95827E · hsl(10, 10%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Teal Radiant Faint #7E958E
Lighter companion: Teal Tone Faint #8FA39C
Darker companion: Teal Core Faint #6E877E
Complementary counterpoint: Garnet Radiant Faint #957E86
Analogous lead: Aqua Radiant Faint #7E9595
Analogous echo: Seafoam Radiant Faint #7E9586
Triadic +120°: Mulberry Radiant Faint #8E7E95
Triadic +240°: Apricot Radiant Faint #958E7E
Split-comp +150°: Peony Radiant Faint #957E92
Split-comp +210°: Ruby Radiant Faint #95827E

Compare

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

vsTeal Tone FaintvsTeal Core FaintvsGarnet Radiant FaintvsAqua Radiant FaintvsSeafoam Radiant FaintvsMulberry Radiant Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Teal Radiant Muted
#759F91 · hsl(160, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Teal Core Faint
#6E877E · hsl(160, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Teal Tone Faint
#8FA39C · hsl(160, 10%, 60%)
Nearby match
Teal Radiant Dust
#6BA894 · hsl(160, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Teal Core Muted
#649082 · hsl(160, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Teal Tone Muted
#87AB9F · hsl(160, 18%, 60%)

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
AA5:1
Garnet Ink Faint
#272023
AA5.1:1
Garnet Ink Muted
#2A1D22
AA5.1:1
Garnet Ink Dust
#2D1A21
AA5.1:1
Garnet Ink Soft
#301820
AA5.2:1
Garnet Ink Clear
#37101D
AA5.2:1
Garnet Ink Vivid
#3E091B

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#878590
Protanopia
#898990
Tritanopia
#7F9191
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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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