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Color#3bba96rgb(59, 186, 150) · cyan

#3bba96 color

Values, variations, harmonies, an accessible palette and ready-to-paste CSS for #3bba96.

Color values

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

What HEX means

#3bba96 packs three channels into hexadecimal pairs from 00 to FF: 3b red, ba green, 96 blue.

What RGB means

Red 59, green 186, blue 150 — each from 0 to 255. It is the same color as the hex above, just in decimal.

What HSL means

Hue 163° (cyan), saturation 52%, lightness 48%. 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 (71.0%) 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 text2.43:1
AA AAA AA Large
AaThis text is readable
Black text8.65:1
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 white text

#008564

4.63:1

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: #e2fff4;
  --primary-100: #ccf9e8;
  --primary-200: #a8e9d2;
  --primary-300: #7ed5b8;
  --primary-400: #49b897;
  --primary-500: #3bba96;
  --primary-600: #007d5d;
  --primary-700: #006549;
  --primary-800: #005139;
  --primary-900: #00422d;
  --primary-950: #002618;
}

Gradient

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

background: linear-gradient(135deg, #3bba96, #ba3b5f);

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: #3bba96;
background-color: #3bba96;
:root {
  --color-primary: #3bba96;
}
color: rgb(59 186 150);
color: oklch(71.1% 0.1226 170.07);
<div class="bg-[#3bba96]">…</div>