Dark cyan

#168e8f

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

Dark cyan lands where green meets blue, deep and strong. Teals like this feel modern and clean. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Dark cyan color values

Every conversion for #168e8f, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#168e8f

RGB22, 142, 143

HSL180, 73%, 32%

HSV180, 85%, 56%

CMYK85%, 1%, 0%, 44%

Lab53.49, -29.56, -9.38

XYZ14.96, 21.5, 29.35

Decimal1478287

Web safe#009999

Pantone321 C

Shades of dark cyan

#148283 #127778 #116b6c #0f6060 #0d5455 #0b4949 #093d3d #083132 #062626 #041a1b

Tints of dark cyan

#1aaaab #1fc6c8 #29ddde #62e6e7 #7eeaeb #9aeff0 #b7f3f4 #d3f8f8 #f0fdfd

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#8f1716 Analogous#168f53 Analogous#16528f Triadic#8f168e Triadic#8e8f16 Split complementary#8f1652 Split complementary#8f5316

Dark cyan in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 85, 1, 0, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #168e8f on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

85 1 0 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

82 5 4 50

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

This color is saturated enough to sit near the edge of cmyk gamut, so expect a small drop in punch on paper and proof it before a long run.

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

Dark cyan in css

Copy #168e8f straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #168e8f; }
.text { color: #168e8f; }
.border { border: 2px solid #168e8f; }

How dark cyan looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Dark cyan and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #168e8f against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #168e8f against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark cyan on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #168e8f sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn dark cyan into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #168e8f 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 dark cyan, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #168e8f is computed, not guessed. Rgb, hsl, hsv, lab and xyz are derived through the usual sRGB conversion formulas. The uncoated cmyk build carries more ink than the coated one, which is what a printer would compensate for when the same color runs on a rougher stock. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.