Dark cyan

#3d8c89

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 #3d8c89, ready to copy. Hex, rgb, hsl, hsv, cmyk, cie-lab, xyz, decimal, web safe and the nearest Pantone.

Hex#3d8c89

RGB61, 140, 137

HSL178, 39%, 39%

HSV178, 56%, 55%

CMYK56%, 0%, 2%, 45%

Lab53.55, -24.76, -5.73

XYZ15.82, 21.55, 26.99

Decimal4033673

Web safe#339999

Pantone321 C

Shades of dark cyan

#38807d #337472 #2d6866 #285d5b #23514f #1e4543 #193938 #142d2c #0e2120 #091515

Tints of dark cyan

#46a09d #50b3af #65bcb8 #79c5c2 #8dcdcb #a1d6d4 #b6dfde #cae8e7 #def1f0 #f3faf9

Colors that go with dark cyan

Complementary#8c3d40 Analogous#3d8c62 Analogous#3d678c Triadic#893d8c Triadic#8c893d Split complementary#8c3d67 Split complementary#8c623d

Dark cyan in print

It sits in a comfortable part of the gamut and reproduces reliably on press. The cmyk build is 56, 0, 2, 45.

The same color needs a different cmyk build depending on the paper. Here is #3d8c89 on both.

Coated stockgloss or silk, C

56 0 2 45

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

Uncoated stocknatural or matte, U

56 4 6 51

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 #3d8c89 straight into your stylesheet.

.background { background-color: #3d8c89; }
.text { color: #3d8c89; }
.border { border: 2px solid #3d8c89; }

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 #3d8c89 against black and white text, measured to the WCAG standard.

Use black text on this color for readable body copy. To test #3d8c89 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 #3d8c89 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 #3d8c89 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

Here is how the numbers for #3d8c89 are worked out. 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.