Dark cyan

#318c8e

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 soft. 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 #318c8e, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#318c8e

RGB49, 140, 142

HSL181, 49%, 37%

HSV181, 65%, 56%

CMYK65%, 1%, 0%, 44%

Lab53.34, -25.56, -8.97

XYZ15.53, 21.36, 28.9

Decimal3247246

Web safe#339999

Pantone321 C

Shades of dark cyan

#2d8082 #297476 #25696a #215d5e #1c5152 #184546 #143a3b #102e2f #0c2223 #081617

Tints of dark cyan

#39a2a4 #40b8bb #55c2c4 #6bcacc #82d2d4 #98dadc #afe2e3 #c5eaeb #dbf2f3 #f2fafa

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#8e3331 Analogous#318e62 Analogous#315e8e Triadic#8e318c Triadic#8c8e31 Split complementary#8e315e Split complementary#8e6231

Dark cyan in print

The cmyk build is well inside gamut, so what you see on screen is close to what prints. The cmyk build is 65, 1, 0, 44.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #318c8e on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

65 1 0 44

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

64 5 4 50

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 #318c8e straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #318c8e; }
.text { color: #318c8e; }
.border { border: 2px solid #318c8e; }

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 #318c8e against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #318c8e 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 #318c8e 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 #318c8e 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 #318c8e 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. For Pantone we return the nearest reference by perceptual distance, which gets you close but is not a substitute for a physical swatch book.