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Aqua Radiant Soft
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Aqua Radiant Soft

Teal · Hue 180
Hex
#62B2B2
RGB
rgb(98, 178, 178)
HSL
hsl(180, 34%, 54%)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 0%, 0%, 30%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
2.5:1Fail
on black
8.5:1AA
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About this color

Aqua Radiant Soft (#62B2B2) belongs to the teal family — hue 180°, 34% saturation, 54% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-aqua-radiant-soft: #62B2B2;
  --colorarchive-aqua-radiant-soft-hsl: hsl(180, 34%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-aqua-radiant-soft-rgb: rgb(98, 178, 178);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

SophisticatedCreativeBalanced
Common in

Design Agencies · Healthcare Tech · Education

Pairs well with

Warm orange for complementary energy, dark slate for depth

Design tip

A versatile primary color for brands seeking to appear both creative and reliable. Works across light and dark themes.

Cultural context ▶

Teal balances emotional stability with mental clarity. It's associated with communication and healing in color therapy.

Color Origins

Teal family

The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.

Heritage

Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, whose wing patches sit at exactly this hue. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both made from copper-calcium silicate around 2,500 BCE, sit in this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) is teal because copper carbonate forms there; Bacon's verdigris is the same chemistry. Phthalo turquoise and cobalt teal are 20th-century pigments.

Across cultures

In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.

In the wild

Hospital scrubs are teal because it's the perceptual complement of red blood — staring at red and then looking away produces a green-teal afterimage, and matching the scrubs to that afterimage reduces eye fatigue. Tiffany's blue is a calibrated teal, trademarked as PMS 1837 (their founding year). Most Pixar films grade their shadows toward teal because warm skin against cool shadow is the most legible cinematographic combination. The Apple Watch SE, the Surface Pro, and the new Macs all use teal as a 'calming-but-modern' accent.

How it reads

Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical; it's the dominant accent color in healthcare and trust-led fintech for that reason. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).

This particular tone

A confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is the most common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #62B2B2.

  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →
  • Redditsecondary
    Periwinkle · #7193FF
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #62B2B2.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →
  • China (Traditional)Jade Green (碧玉)
    #5F9EA0 · Hetian and Burmese jadeite
    →

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Aqua Tone Soft
#76BCBC · hsl(180, 34%, 60%)
Darker companion
Aqua Core Soft
#51A4A4 · hsl(180, 34%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Crimson Radiant Soft
#B26262 · hsl(0, 34%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Steel Radiant Soft
#6290B2 · hsl(205, 34%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Teal Radiant Soft
#62B297 · hsl(160, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Fuchsia Radiant Soft
#B262B2 · hsl(300, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Citrine Radiant Soft
#B2B262 · hsl(60, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Blush Radiant Soft
#B2628A · hsl(330, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Coral Radiant Soft
#B28A62 · hsl(30, 34%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Aqua Radiant Soft #62B2B2
Lighter companion: Aqua Tone Soft #76BCBC
Darker companion: Aqua Core Soft #51A4A4
Complementary counterpoint: Crimson Radiant Soft #B26262
Analogous lead: Steel Radiant Soft #6290B2
Analogous echo: Teal Radiant Soft #62B297
Triadic +120°: Fuchsia Radiant Soft #B262B2
Triadic +240°: Citrine Radiant Soft #B2B262
Split-comp +150°: Blush Radiant Soft #B2628A
Split-comp +210°: Coral Radiant Soft #B28A62

Compare

See how Aqua Radiant Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsAqua Tone SoftvsAqua Core SoftvsCrimson Radiant SoftvsSteel Radiant SoftvsTeal Radiant SoftvsFuchsia Radiant Soft

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Aqua Radiant Dust
#6BA8A8 · hsl(180, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Core Soft
#51A4A4 · hsl(180, 34%, 48%)
Nearby match
Aqua Tone Soft
#76BCBC · hsl(180, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Soft
#62B2AB · hsl(175, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Radiant Muted
#759F9F · hsl(180, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Aqua Core Dust
#5B9A9A · hsl(180, 26%, 48%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Vivid
#2D093E
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Bright
#2E0642
AAA7:1
Mulberry Ink Pure
#2F0345
AAA7.1:1
Plum Ink Clear
#241037
AAA7.2:1
Plum Ink Vivid
#24093E
AAA7.2:1
Plum Ink Bright
#240642

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#8781B2
Protanopia
#8C8DB2
Tritanopia
#68B2B2
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