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Lagoon Radiant Soft
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Lagoon Radiant Soft

Teal · Hue 170
Hex
#62B2A4
RGB
rgb(98, 178, 164)
HSL
hsl(170, 34%, 54%)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 0%, 8%, 30%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
2.5:1Fail
on black
8.4:1AA
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About this color

Lagoon Radiant Soft (#62B2A4) belongs to the teal family — hue 170°, 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-lagoon-radiant-soft: #62B2A4;
  --colorarchive-lagoon-radiant-soft-hsl: hsl(170, 34%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-lagoon-radiant-soft-rgb: rgb(98, 178, 164);
}

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 #62B2A4.

  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →
  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #62B2A4.

  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →
  • China (Traditional)Jade Green (碧玉)
    #5F9EA0 · Hetian and Burmese jadeite
    →
  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →

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
Lagoon Tone Soft
#76BCB0 · hsl(170, 34%, 60%)
Darker companion
Lagoon Core Soft
#51A496 · hsl(170, 34%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Merlot Radiant Soft
#B2626F · hsl(350, 34%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Cerulean Radiant Soft
#62A4B2 · hsl(190, 34%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Celadon Radiant Soft
#62B283 · hsl(145, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Magenta Radiant Soft
#A462B2 · hsl(290, 34%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Amber Radiant Soft
#B2A462 · hsl(50, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Rose Radiant Soft
#B26297 · hsl(320, 34%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Ember Radiant Soft
#B27C62 · hsl(20, 34%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Lagoon Radiant Soft #62B2A4
Lighter companion: Lagoon Tone Soft #76BCB0
Darker companion: Lagoon Core Soft #51A496
Complementary counterpoint: Merlot Radiant Soft #B2626F
Analogous lead: Cerulean Radiant Soft #62A4B2
Analogous echo: Celadon Radiant Soft #62B283
Triadic +120°: Magenta Radiant Soft #A462B2
Triadic +240°: Amber Radiant Soft #B2A462
Split-comp +150°: Rose Radiant Soft #B26297
Split-comp +210°: Ember Radiant Soft #B27C62

Compare

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

vsLagoon Tone SoftvsLagoon Core SoftvsMerlot Radiant SoftvsCerulean Radiant SoftvsCeladon Radiant SoftvsMagenta Radiant Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Lagoon Radiant Dust
#6BA89E · hsl(170, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Core Soft
#51A496 · hsl(170, 34%, 48%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Tone Soft
#76BCB0 · hsl(170, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Cyan Radiant Soft
#62B2AB · hsl(175, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Radiant Muted
#759F98 · hsl(170, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Lagoon Core Dust
#5B9A90 · hsl(170, 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
Plum Ink Clear
#241037
AAA7.1:1
Plum Ink Vivid
#24093E
AAA7.1:1
Plum Ink Bright
#240642
AAA7.2:1
Plum Ink Pure
#240345
AAA7.1:1
Orchid Ink Clear
#1D1037
AAA7.3:1
Orchid Ink Vivid
#1B093E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#8781A8
Protanopia
#8C8DA8
Tritanopia
#68AAAB
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