Aqua#00FFFF

#00FFFF is a very light, vivid teal. Relative luminance 0.787; OKLCH L 90.5% C 0.155 H 194.8°. Best body text is #000000 at 16.75:1 contrast (WCAG AA passes).

Aqua — editorial page

Color values

HEX	#00FFFF
RGB	rgb(0, 255, 255)
HSL	hsl(180, 100%, 50%)
HSV	hsv(180, 100%, 100%)
CMYK	cmyk(100%, 0%, 0%, 0%)
CIE-LAB	lab(91.11, -48.09, -14.13)
CIE-LCH	lch(91.11, 50.12, 196.38°)
OKLab	oklab(90.54% -0.1494 -0.0394)
OKLCH	oklch(90.54% 0.155 194.8)
XYZ	xyz(53.8014, 78.7327, 106.9496)
Luminance	0.7874 (WCAG relative)
Temperature	cool
Family	teal

Closest named colors

Perceptual scales

Shades

Tints

Tones

OKLCH scale

Color harmonies

complementary

#00FFFF #FF0000

analogous

#00FF80 #00FFFF #007FFF

triadic

#00FFFF #FF00FF #FFFF00

tetradic

#00FFFF #7F00FF #FF0000 #80FF00

square

#00FFFF #7F00FF #FF0000 #80FF00

split-complementary

#00FFFF #FF0080 #FF8000

monochromatic

#008585 #00C2C2 #00FFFF #3DFFFF #7AFFFF

Accessibility & contrast

On white

1.25

#00FFFF on #FFFFFF

AA ✗AA large ✗AAA ✗

On black

16.75

#00FFFF on #000000

AA ✓AA large ✓AAA ✓

Best text color

#000000 on #00FFFF

16.75:1 — WCAG AA (normal text) passes

Contrast matrix

fg \ bg	##00FFFF	#FFFFFF	#000000	##000000
##00FFFF	1.00	1.25	16.75	16.75
#FFFFFF	1.25	1.00	21.00	21.00
#000000	16.75	21.00	1.00	1.00
##000000	16.75	21.00	1.00	1.00

Color blindness preview

Protanopia (red-blind)

#EDF2FF

Deuteranopia (green-blind)

#D0DDFF

Tritanopia (blue-blind)

#00FFFE

Achromatopsia (no color)

#E5E5E5

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#1D4747

#183130

#111C1B

#000000

#50FFFF

#71FFFF

#8AFFFF

#9FFFFF

#B2FFFF

#C3FFFF

#D3FFFF

#E2FFFF

#F1FFFF

#FFFFFF

#4CFDFC

#6BFBFA

#82F8F7

#95F6F5

Palettes with this color

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Design tokens & code

CSS

--color: #00ffff;
/* rgb */ color: rgb(0, 255, 255);
/* oklch */ color: oklch(90.5% 0.155 194.8);

Tailwind

colors: {
  custom: {
    50: '#8affff',
    500: '#00ffff',
    950: '#000000',
  },
}

SCSS

$custom: #00ffff;
$custom-light: #8affff;
$custom-dark: #000000;

JSON

{
  "hex": "#00ffff",
  "rgb": {
    "r": 0,
    "g": 255,
    "b": 255
  },
  "hsl": {
    "h": 180,
    "s": 100,
    "l": 50
  },
  "oklch": {
    "l": 0.9054,
    "c": 0.15455,
    "h": 194.8
  },
  "luminance": 0.7874
}

Semantic roles & 50–950 ramp

primary

#00FFFF

secondary

#8B1818

accent

#2929FF

background

#FCFFFF

surface

#F5FFFF

border

#CFD7D7

text

#0F1818

muted

#808686

Preview Lab

Preview with #00FFFF

Body copy rendered with the generated semantic roles for this colour.

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