Teal

#157868

Hex, rgb, cmyk and Pantone values for teal, with shades, tints, matching colors and free print quality patterns.

Teal is a deep teal, weighty between blue and green. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Teal color values

Every conversion for #157868, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#157868

RGB21, 120, 104

HSL170, 70%, 28%

HSV170, 83%, 47%

CMYK83%, 0%, 13%, 53%

Lab45.07, -30.99, 1.06

XYZ9.52, 14.59, 15.41

Decimal1407080

Web safe#006666

Pantone562 C

Shades of teal

#136f60 #126558 #105c50 #0e5247 #0d493f #0b4037 #09362f #082d27 #06231f #051a17

Tints of teal

#1a9682 #1fb49c #25d2b6 #3cddc3 #5ae2cc #78e7d5 #96eddf #b4f2e8 #d2f7f1 #f0fcfa

Colors that go with teal

Complementary#781525 Analogous#157836 Analogous#155778 Triadic#681578 Triadic#786815 Split complementary#781557 Split complementary#783615

Teal in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 82, 0, 13, 53.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #157868 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

83 0 13 53

Ink sits on the surface, so colors stay bright and close to screen.

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

80 4 16 59

The stock absorbs ink and gains dot, so it needs a heavier build and reads a touch softer.

This color converts to cmyk comfortably and should hold on press.

See how it converts in the rgb to cmyk converter, or read rgb vs cmyk for print and what the k in cmyk means.

Teal in css

Copy #157868 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #157868; }
.text { color: #157868; }
.border { border: 2px solid #157868; }

How teal looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Teal and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #157868 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #157868 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Teal on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #157868 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around teal? Pull matching colors from any photo with the color palette generator, or check a design for print with the rgb to cmyk converter.

Turn teal into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #157868 and its shades, free at print quality. Click any one to keep editing in the pattern maker.

Arches Signature stripes Gem Shingles

Make posters, wallpaper and packaging art from teal, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #157868 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. Two cmyk builds are shown because coated and uncoated papers behave differently, uncoated soaks up ink and needs more of it to hit the same target. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.