Turquoise

#46dfca

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

Turquoise is a mid teal, confident between blue and green. 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.

Turquoise color values

Every conversion for #46dfca, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#46dfca

RGB70, 223, 202

HSL172, 71%, 57%

HSV172, 69%, 87%

CMYK69%, 0%, 9%, 13%

Lab80.93, -44.43, -1.33

XYZ39.57, 58.34, 65.05

Decimal4644810

Web safe#33cccc

Pantone3255 C

Shades of turquoise

#30dbc4 #23cdb6 #20b7a2 #1ca08e #188a7a #147466 #105d53 #0c473f #08302b #051a17

Tints of turquoise

#57e2cf #68e5d4 #79e8d9 #8aebdd #9beee2 #acf1e7 #bdf4ec #cef6f1 #dff9f6 #f0fcfb

Colors that go with turquoise

Complementary#df465b Analogous#46df7e Analogous#46a7df Triadic#ca46df Triadic#dfca46 Split complementary#df46a7 Split complementary#df7d46

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 69, 0, 9, 13.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #46dfca on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

69 0 9 13

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

67 4 12 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 readrgb vs cmyk for print andwhat the k in cmyk means.

Turquoise in css

Copy #46dfca straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #46dfca; }
.text { color: #46dfca; }
.border { border: 2px solid #46dfca; }

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 #46dfca against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #46dfca against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Turquoise on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #46dfca 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn turquoise into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #46dfca 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

Here is how the numbers for #46dfca are worked out. 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.