Teal

#1b857c

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 175 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 #1b857c, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#1b857c

RGB27, 133, 124

HSL175, 66%, 31%

HSV175, 80%, 52%

CMYK80%, 0%, 7%, 48%

Lab50.05, -30.6, -3.43

XYZ12.48, 18.46, 21.97

Decimal1803644

Web safe#339966

Pantone327 C

Shades of teal

#197a72 #176f68 #14655e #125a54 #104f4a #0e4440 #0c3a36 #0a2f2c #072422 #051918

Tints of teal

#21a196 #26bcaf #2fd5c7 #4bdace #66e0d6 #82e6dd #9debe5 #b9f1ec #d5f6f4 #f0fcfb

Colors that go with teal

Complementary#851b24 Analogous#1b8547 Analogous#1b5985 Triadic#7c1b85 Triadic#857c1b Split complementary#851b59 Split complementary#85471b

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 80, 0, 7, 48.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #1b857c on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

80 0 7 48

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

78 4 10 54

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 #1b857c straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #1b857c; }
.text { color: #1b857c; }
.border { border: 2px solid #1b857c; }

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 #1b857c against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #1b857c 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 #1b857c 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 #1b857c 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 #1b857c are worked out. The rgb, hsl, hsv, cie-lab and xyz values follow the standard conversions from the sRGB color space. 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.