Dark cyan

#42988e

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 soft. 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 #42988e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#42988e

RGB66, 152, 142

HSL173, 39%, 43%

HSV173, 57%, 60%

CMYK57%, 0%, 7%, 40%

Lab57.62, -28.33, -2.56

XYZ18.36, 25.57, 29.56

Decimal4364430

Web safe#339999

Pantone3285 C

Shades of dark cyan

#3c8b82 #377e76 #317169 #2b645d #265751 #204a45 #1a3d39 #152f2c #0f2220 #091514

Tints of dark cyan

#4aaba0 #5ab7ac #6dbfb6 #80c8bf #93d0c9 #a6d8d3 #b9e1dc #cce9e6 #dff1ef #f3faf9

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#98424c Analogous#429863 Analogous#427798 Triadic#8e4298 Triadic#988e42 Split complementary#984277 Split complementary#986342

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 57, 0, 7, 40.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #42988e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

57 0 7 40

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 4 10 46

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 #42988e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #42988e; }
.text { color: #42988e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #42988e; }

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 #42988e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #42988e 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 #42988e 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 #42988e 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 #42988e come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.