Medium turquoise

#8cd5cd

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

Medium turquoise lands where green meets blue, mid and soft. A mid teal this balanced works for spa, travel and wellness. Warm corals opposite it on the wheel bring contrast and sand tones keep it coastal.

Medium turquoise color values

Every conversion for #8cd5cd, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#8cd5cd

RGB140, 213, 205

HSL173, 46%, 69%

HSV173, 34%, 84%

CMYK34%, 0%, 4%, 16%

Lab80.5, -24.44, -3.28

XYZ45.63, 57.57, 66.47

Decimal9229773

Web safe#99cccc

Pantone3242 C

Shades of medium turquoise

#74ccc3 #5dc4b8 #45bbae #3ca499 #338c83 #2b756d #225d57 #194641 #112e2b #081615

Tints of medium turquoise

#a0dcd6 #abe0da #b5e4df #bfe8e3 #c9ebe8 #d3efec #def3f0 #e8f7f5 #f2faf9

Colors that go with medium turquoise

Complementary#d58c94 Analogous#8cd5a8 Analogous#8cb9d5 Triadic#cd8cd5 Triadic#d5cd8c Split complementary#d58cb9 Split complementary#d5a88c

Medium turquoise in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 34, 0, 4, 16.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #8cd5cd on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

34 0 4 16

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

35 4 8 22

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.

Medium turquoise in css

Copy #8cd5cd straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #8cd5cd; }
.text { color: #8cd5cd; }
.border { border: 2px solid #8cd5cd; }

How medium turquoise looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Medium turquoise and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #8cd5cd against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #8cd5cd against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Medium turquoise on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #8cd5cd sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

Building a full palette around medium 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 medium turquoise into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #8cd5cd 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 medium turquoise, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #8cd5cd 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. 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.