Teal

#166b71

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

This is Teal, a strong teal at 184 degrees. 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 #166b71, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#166b71

RGB22, 107, 113

HSL184, 67%, 26%

HSV184, 81%, 44%

CMYK81%, 5%, 0%, 56%

Lab41.02, -21.58, -10.35

XYZ8.57, 11.88, 17.46

Decimal1469297

Web safe#006666

Pantone3155 C

Shades of teal

#146368 #135a60 #115257 #0f4a4e #0d4245 #0c393d #0a3134 #08292b #072122 #05181a

Tints of teal

#1c878f #22a4ad #27c0cb #3dcfd9 #5bd6df #78dee5 #96e5eb #b4ecf0 #d2f4f6 #f0fbfc

Colors that go with teal

Complementary#711c16 Analogous#167149 Analogous#163e71 Triadic#71166b Triadic#6b7116 Split complementary#71163e Split complementary#714916

Teal in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 81, 5, 0, 56.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #166b71 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

81 5 0 56

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

79 9 4 62

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 #166b71 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #166b71; }
.text { color: #166b71; }
.border { border: 2px solid #166b71; }

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 #166b71 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #166b71 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 #166b71 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 #166b71 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

Here is how the numbers for #166b71 are worked out. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.