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Teal Tone Dust
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Teal Tone Dust

Teal · Hue 160
Metrics
S 26% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.3:1Failon black8.9:1AA
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About this color

Teal Tone Dust (#7EB4A2) belongs to the teal family — hue 160°, 26% saturation, 60% 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-tone-dust: #7EB4A2;
  --colorarchive-teal-tone-dust-hsl: hsl(160, 26%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-teal-tone-dust-rgb: rgb(126, 180, 162);
}

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 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 #7EB4A2.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Blue · #6A9BCC
    →
  • Redditsecondary
    Periwinkle · #7193FF
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7EB4A2.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →
  • IrelandConnemara Marble
    #8DA48A · Mottled green-grey native marble
    →

Color guides

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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 Silk Dust
#98C3B4 · hsl(160, 26%, 68%)
Darker companion
Teal Radiant Dust
#6BA894 · hsl(160, 26%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Garnet Tone Dust
#B47E90 · hsl(340, 26%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Aqua Tone Dust
#7EB4B4 · hsl(180, 26%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Seafoam Tone Dust
#7EB490 · hsl(140, 26%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Mulberry Tone Dust
#A27EB4 · hsl(280, 26%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Apricot Tone Dust
#B4A27E · hsl(40, 26%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Peony Tone Dust
#B47EAB · hsl(310, 26%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Ruby Tone Dust
#B4877E · hsl(10, 26%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Teal Tone Dust #7EB4A2
Lighter companion: Teal Silk Dust #98C3B4
Darker companion: Teal Radiant Dust #6BA894
Complementary counterpoint: Garnet Tone Dust #B47E90
Analogous lead: Aqua Tone Dust #7EB4B4
Analogous echo: Seafoam Tone Dust #7EB490
Triadic +120°: Mulberry Tone Dust #A27EB4
Triadic +240°: Apricot Tone Dust #B4A27E
Split-comp +150°: Peony Tone Dust #B47EAB
Split-comp +210°: Ruby Tone Dust #B4877E

Compare

See how Teal Tone Dust compares side by side with related colors.

vsTeal Silk DustvsTeal Radiant DustvsGarnet Tone DustvsAqua Tone DustvsSeafoam Tone DustvsMulberry Tone Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Teal Tone Muted
#87AB9F · hsl(160, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Teal Tone Soft
#76BCA5 · hsl(160, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Teal Radiant Dust
#6BA894 · hsl(160, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Teal Silk Dust
#98C3B4 · hsl(160, 26%, 68%)
Nearby match
Teal Tone Faint
#8FA39C · hsl(160, 10%, 60%)
Nearby match
Teal Radiant Muted
#759F91 · hsl(160, 18%, 54%)

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
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Dust
#2D1A21
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Soft
#301820
AAA7.1:1
Garnet Ink Clear
#37101D
AAA7.1:1
Garnet Ink Vivid
#3E091B
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Bright
#42061A
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Pure
#450319

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#9591A8
Protanopia
#9899A7
Tritanopia
#81AAAB
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Teal Tone Faint#8FA39C · hsl(160, 10%, 60%)Teal Tone Muted#87AB9F · hsl(160, 18%, 60%)Teal Tone Dust#7EB4A2 · hsl(160, 26%, 60%)Teal Tone Soft#76BCA5 · hsl(160, 34%, 60%)Teal Tone Clear#62D0AB · hsl(160, 54%, 60%)Teal Tone Vivid#4EE4B2 · hsl(160, 74%, 60%)Teal Tone Bright#43EFB6 · hsl(160, 84%, 60%)Teal Tone Pure#3BF7B8 · hsl(160, 92%, 60%)
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