Dark cyan

#388b79

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

Dark cyan 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.

Dark cyan color values

Every conversion for #388b79, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#388b79

RGB56, 139, 121

HSL167, 43%, 38%

HSV167, 60%, 55%

CMYK60%, 0%, 13%, 45%

Lab52.6, -29.69, 2.13

XYZ14.31, 20.69, 21.33

Decimal3705721

Web safe#339966

Pantone569 C

Shades of dark cyan

#337f6f #2f7465 #2a685a #255c50 #205046 #1c453c #173932 #122d27 #0e221d #091613

Tints of dark cyan

#41a08b #49b59e #5ebea9 #73c7b5 #88cfc0 #9ed8cb #b3e0d6 #c8e9e2 #ddf1ed #f2faf8

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#8b384a Analogous#388b4f Analogous#38738b Triadic#79388b Triadic#8b7938 Split complementary#8b3874 Split complementary#8b4f38

Dark cyan in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 60, 0, 13, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #388b79 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

60 0 13 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

59 4 16 51

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.

Dark cyan in css

Copy #388b79 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #388b79; }
.text { color: #388b79; }
.border { border: 2px solid #388b79; }

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 #388b79 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #388b79 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 #388b79 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 #388b79 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

The figures for #388b79 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.