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Jade Silk Soft
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Jade Silk Soft

Teal · Hue 150
Hex
#92C9AD
RGB
rgb(146, 201, 173)
HSL
hsl(150, 34%, 68%)
CMYK
cmyk(27%, 0%, 14%, 21%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.9:1Fail
on black
11.2:1AA
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About this color

Jade Silk Soft (#92C9AD) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 34% saturation, 68% 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-jade-silk-soft: #92C9AD;
  --colorarchive-jade-silk-soft-hsl: hsl(150, 34%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-jade-silk-soft-rgb: rgb(146, 201, 173);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

RefreshingModernClear
Common in

SaaS · Cloud Services · Interior Design

Pairs well with

Coral for playful energy, light gray for modern minimalism

Design tip

Ideal for tech product interfaces. Light teal works as a primary brand color that feels both professional and approachable.

Cultural context ▶

Light teal blends the calm of blue with the renewal of green. Associated with clear water, clarity, and modern thinking.

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 #92C9AD.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #92C9AD.

  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →
  • China (Traditional)Celadon (青瓷)
    #9CB48F · Song Dynasty Longquan kilns
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →

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
Jade Bloom Soft
#ADD7C2 · hsl(150, 34%, 76%)
Darker companion
Jade Tone Soft
#76BC99 · hsl(150, 34%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Silk Soft
#C992AD · hsl(330, 34%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Silk Soft
#92C9C5 · hsl(175, 34%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Mint Silk Soft
#92C99B · hsl(130, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Silk Soft
#AD92C9 · hsl(270, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Silk Soft
#C9AD92 · hsl(30, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Silk Soft
#C992C9 · hsl(300, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Silk Soft
#C99292 · hsl(0, 34%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Silk Soft #92C9AD
Lighter companion: Jade Bloom Soft #ADD7C2
Darker companion: Jade Tone Soft #76BC99
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Silk Soft #C992AD
Analogous lead: Cyan Silk Soft #92C9C5
Analogous echo: Mint Silk Soft #92C99B
Triadic +120°: Plum Silk Soft #AD92C9
Triadic +240°: Coral Silk Soft #C9AD92
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Silk Soft #C992C9
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Silk Soft #C99292

Compare

See how Jade Silk Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Bloom SoftvsJade Tone SoftvsBlush Silk SoftvsCyan Silk SoftvsMint Silk SoftvsPlum Silk Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Silk Dust
#98C3AD · hsl(150, 26%, 68%)
Nearby match
Celadon Silk Soft
#92C9A9 · hsl(145, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Jade Tone Soft
#76BC99 · hsl(150, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Jade Bloom Soft
#ADD7C2 · hsl(150, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Jade Silk Muted
#9FBCAD · hsl(150, 18%, 68%)
Nearby match
Jade Silk Clear
#81D9AD · hsl(150, 54%, 68%)

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
Blush Nocturne Faint
#382E33
AAA7.1:1
Blush Nocturne Muted
#3C2A33
AAA7.2:1
Blush Nocturne Dust
#402633
AAA7.3:1
Blush Nocturne Soft
#442233
AAA7.4:1
Blush Nocturne Clear
#4F1733
AAA7.3:1
Blush Nocturne Vivid
#590D33

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A9A5B6
Protanopia
#ADADB4
Tritanopia
#95BABB
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