Aquamarine

#a6e9c5

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

Aquamarine is a light green that feels open. Light greens like this signal fresh, natural and wellness. It works beside earthy oranges for contrast, or with other greens for a calm monochrome.

Aquamarine color values

Every conversion for #a6e9c5, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#a6e9c5

RGB166, 233, 197

HSL148, 60%, 78%

HSV148, 29%, 91%

CMYK29%, 0%, 15%, 9%

Lab87.2, -28.32, 10.82

XYZ54.94, 70.42, 63.52

Decimal10938821

Web safe#99ffcc

Pantone3375 C

Shades of aquamarine

#88e2b2 #6bda9f #4dd38b #32ca78 #2bac67 #238f55 #1c7143 #155432 #0d3620 #06190f

Tints of aquamarine

#b5edcf #c4f0d8 #cbf2dd #d3f4e2 #daf6e7 #e2f8ec #e9faf1 #f1fbf6

Colors that go with aquamarine

Complementary#e9a6ca Analogous#a9e9a6 Analogous#a6e9e6 Triadic#c5a6e9 Triadic#e9c5a6 Split complementary#e6a6e9 Split complementary#e9a6a9

Aquamarine in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 29, 0, 15, 9.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #a6e9c5 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

29 0 15 9

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

31 4 18 15

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.

Aquamarine in css

Copy #a6e9c5 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #a6e9c5; }
.text { color: #a6e9c5; }
.border { border: 2px solid #a6e9c5; }

How aquamarine looks on light and dark

Sample text on black

Sample text on white

Text on this color

Aquamarine and accessibility

Contrast ratios for #a6e9c5 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #a6e9c5 against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through our contrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Aquamarine on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #a6e9c5 sits on real print products. Start any of these in the maker.

Business card

Sticker

Repeat pattern

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

Turn aquamarine into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #a6e9c5 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 aquamarine, free and print ready.

Open in pattern maker

How we calculate these values

The figures for #a6e9c5 come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. 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.