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Color#003b2frgb(0, 59, 47) · cyan

#003b2f color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #003b2f.

Color values

The same color written in every notation you are likely to need. Click any row to copy it.

What HEX means

#003b2f packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 00 red, 3b green, 2f blue.

What RGB means

Red 0, green 59, blue 47 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 168° (cyan), saturation 100%, lightness 12%. HSL is handy when you want the same hue a little lighter or less saturated.

Why OKLCH

OKLCH is a perceptual space — changing its lightness (31.4%) matches how your eye reads brightness far better than HSL, which is why the palette below is generated in it.

Accessibility & contrast

WCAG requires at least 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text at level AA. Use this to decide whether white or black text belongs on this color.

AaThis text is readable
White text12.6:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text1.67:1
AA AAA AA Large

Closest accessible alternative

Nudged in lightness to reach 4.5:1 while keeping the hue as close as possible.

Aa

For black text

#4c7e70

4.53:1

UI preview

How this color behaves in a real interface, not just as a square.

Badge

A paragraph with a themed link inside it.

Information

An alert accented with this color.

Progress

Tints & shades

A tint mixes the color toward white; a shade mixes it toward black. Click any swatch to open it.

Color harmonies

Schemes built by rotating the hue around the color wheel — the starting point for a coherent palette.

Complementary

Opposite on the wheel — maximum contrast.

Analogous

Neighbours on the wheel — calm and cohesive.

Triadic

Three hues 120° apart — vivid but balanced.

Split complementary

Softer than a straight complement.

Tetradic

Four hues — enough for a design system.

Palette generator

A Tailwind-style 50–950 ramp anchored on this color at step 500, generated in OKLCH so the steps feel evenly spaced.

:root {
  --primary-50: #edfbf6;
  --primary-100: #ddf3eb;
  --primary-200: #c2e1d7;
  --primary-300: #a3cbbe;
  --primary-400: #7ead9f;
  --primary-500: #003b2f;
  --primary-600: #417365;
  --primary-700: #2f5d50;
  --primary-800: #214a3f;
  --primary-900: #183c32;
  --primary-950: #0c221c;
}

Gradient

A linear blend from this color to its complement, with the CSS ready to paste.

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #003b2f, #3d000c);

Nearest named colors

The closest matches from a corpus of about 31,900 named colours, ranked by ΔE (CIEDE2000) — a measure of how different two colours look. ΔE under 1 is nearly indistinguishable; around 10 is clearly different.

CSS code

Every common way to use this color in a stylesheet or a component.

color: #003b2f;
background-color: #003b2f;
:root {
  --color-primary: #003b2f;
}
color: rgb(0 59 47);
color: oklch(31.4% 0.0598 173.97);
<div class="bg-[#003b2f]">…</div>