Turquoise

#87ddd2

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

Turquoise lands where green meets blue, light and strong. Light teals like this feel coastal and calm. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Turquoise color values

Every conversion for #87ddd2, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#87ddd2

RGB135, 221, 210

HSL172, 56%, 70%

HSV172, 39%, 87%

CMYK39%, 0%, 5%, 13%

Lab82.66, -28.51, -2.8

XYZ47.48, 61.52, 70.34

Decimal8904146

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone3242 C

Shades of turquoise

#6ed6c8 #54cfbf #3bc7b5 #32b0a0 #2b9789 #237d72 #1c645b #154b44 #0e312d #071816

Tints of turquoise

#9ce3da #a7e6de #b1e9e2 #bcece6 #c7efea #d1f2ee #dcf5f2 #e6f8f6 #f1fbfa

Colors that go with turquoise

Complementary#dd8792 Analogous#87dda7 Analogous#87bddd Triadic#d287dd Triadic#ddd287 Split complementary#dd87bd Split complementary#dda787

Turquoise in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 39, 0, 5, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #87ddd2 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

39 0 5 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

40 4 9 19

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.

Turquoise in css

Copy #87ddd2 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #87ddd2; }
.text { color: #87ddd2; }
.border { border: 2px solid #87ddd2; }

How turquoise looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Turquoise and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #87ddd2 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #87ddd2 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Turquoise on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #87ddd2 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn turquoise into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #87ddd2 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 turquoise, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

Every value on this page for #87ddd2 is computed, not guessed. 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.