Teal

#186c63

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. Pair it with warm oranges for a complementary lift, or with deep navy for depth.

Teal color values

Every conversion for #186c63, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#186c63

RGB24, 108, 99

HSL174, 64%, 26%

HSV174, 78%, 42%

CMYK78%, 0%, 8%, 58%

Lab40.93, -26.34, -1.98

XYZ7.99, 11.82, 13.66

Decimal1600611

Web safe#006666

Pantone329 C

Shades of teal

#16645b #145b54 #12534c #114b45 #0f433d #0d3a35 #0b322e #092a26 #07211f #061917

Tints of teal

#1f897e #25a799 #2cc4b4 #40d4c5 #5ddbce #7be2d7 #98e8e0 #b5efe9 #d3f5f2 #f0fcfb

Colors that go with teal

Complementary#6c1821 Analogous#186c39 Analogous#184b6c Triadic#63186c Triadic#6c6318 Split complementary#6c184b Split complementary#6c3918

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 78, 0, 8, 58.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #186c63 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

78 0 8 58

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

76 4 11 64

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 #186c63 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #186c63; }
.text { color: #186c63; }
.border { border: 2px solid #186c63; }

How teal looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

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Teal and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #186c63 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use white text on this color for readable body copy. To test #186c63 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 #186c63 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 #186c63 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 #186c63 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.