Dark cyan

#268a8a

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 strong. 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 #268a8a, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#268a8a

RGB38, 138, 138

HSL180, 57%, 35%

HSV180, 72%, 54%

CMYK72%, 0%, 0%, 46%

Lab52.31, -27.44, -8.22

XYZ14.48, 20.42, 27.22

Decimal2525834

Web safe#339999

Pantone321 C

Shades of dark cyan

#237f7f #207373 #1d6868 #195c5c #165151 #134646 #103a3a #0d2f2f #0a2323 #071818

Tints of dark cyan

#2da3a3 #34bcbc #43cbcb #5cd2d2 #75d9d9 #8ee0e0 #a7e7e7 #bfeded #d8f4f4 #f1fbfb

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#8a2626 Analogous#268a58 Analogous#26588a Triadic#8a268a Triadic#8a8a26 Split complementary#8a2658 Split complementary#8a5826

Dark cyan in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 72, 0, 0, 46.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #268a8a on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

72 0 0 46

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

70 4 4 52

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.

Dark cyan in css

Copy #268a8a straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #268a8a; }
.text { color: #268a8a; }
.border { border: 2px solid #268a8a; }

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 #268a8a against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #268a8a against any other color, not just black and white, run the pair through ourcontrast checker for a live WCAG reading.

Dark cyan on a business card, sticker and pattern

A quick look at how #268a8a 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 thecolor palette generator, or check a design for print with thergb to cmyk converter.

Turn dark cyan into a seamless pattern

Four patterns built from #268a8a 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 #268a8a come from standard color math, shown so you can check them. We convert from sRGB to each space with the standard formulas, so the codes match what design tools show. 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. The Pantone figure is the nearest match in our reference set by perceptual distance and it is an approximation, not an exact spot color.