Tailwind CSS v3 color

Tailwind teal-500 #14B8A6

Tailwind CSS v3's teal-500 is #14B8A6. It is a light soft cyan in the cyan family. In OKLCH it sits at lightness 0.704, chroma 0.123 and hue 182.5°. The nearest CSS named color is lightseagreen (#20B2AA), ΔE2000 3.8 away.

Relative luminance: 0.3718
OKLCH L · C · h: 0.704 · 0.123 · 182.5
Best text: Black 8.43:1
Hue family: Cyan

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#14B8A6 color codes

HEX: #14B8A6
RGB: rgb(20, 184, 166)
HSL: hsl(173, 80%, 40%)
OKLCH: oklch(0.704 0.123 182.5)
OKLab: oklab(0.704 -0.123 -0.005)
CIELAB (D65): L* 67.41, a* -42.16, b* -1.73
XYZ (D65): X 24.31, Y 37.18, Z 41.96
CMYK (naive): cmyk(89%, 0%, 10%, 28%)

CIELAB and XYZ use the D65 white point; CSS lab() uses D50, so paste the OKLCH or HEX value into stylesheets. CMYK here is a plain formula with no press profile.

Legibility

Contrast: is #14B8A6 accessible?

Black text on it reaches 8.43:1, passing AAA. White text fails at 2.48:1.

WCAG 2 gives the same ratio whichever color is the text; APCA does not, so its Lc changes sign and size with polarity.

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Black text on it

8.43:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc +55
White text on it

2.48:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc −53
As text on black

8.43:1
- AA passes
- AA large passes
- AAA passes
- APCA Lc −53
As text on white

2.48:1
- AA fails
- AA large fails
- AAA fails
- APCA Lc +48

Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1

For text on white

#008577 4.54:1

Darkening its OKLCH lightness from 0.70 to 0.55 reaches 4.54:1 on white, keeping the hue.

Compare both in the Contrast System
For text on black

#14B8A6 8.43:1

It already reaches 8.43:1 on black, so no change is needed.

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Studio

Adjust #14B8A6 live

Move lightness, chroma and hue in OKLCH, or drag on the map. The map is every lightness and chroma at the current hue: sRGB inside the solid area, Display P3 out to the dashed line.

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Scale

Shades and tints of #14B8A6

Eleven OKLCH lightness steps at this hue, each with its contrast against white and black. #14B8A6 sits at step 400.

50#D7FFF7

White
1.07
Black
19.53
100#A7FFF0

White
1.15
Black
18.20
200#7DEFDD

White
1.37
Black
15.26
300#56D6C4

White
1.77
Black
11.81
400This color#14B8A6

White
2.48
Black
8.43
500#009B8C

White
3.46
Black
6.06
600#008173

White
4.78
Black
4.38
700#00675C

White
6.78
Black
3.09
800#004B43

White
10.05
Black
2.08
900#00312B

White
14.24
Black
1.47
950#001B17

White
17.96
Black
1.16

Under each step, white and black text on it; a bold figure passes 4.5:1.

Tailwind CSS v3 teal scale

The real Tailwind palette, for comparison with the computed ramp above.

50#F0FDFA
White
1.04
Black
20.13
100#CCFBF1
White
1.12
Black
18.63
200#99F6E4
White
1.26
Black
16.65
300#5EEAD4
White
1.47
Black
14.19
400#2DD4BF
White
1.86
Black
11.28
500This color#14B8A6

White
2.48
Black
8.43
600#0D9488
White
3.74
Black
5.60
700#0F766E
White
5.47
Black
3.83
800#115E59
White
7.58
Black
2.76
900#134E4A
White
9.47
Black
2.21
950#042F2E
White
14.47
Black
1.45

Gamut

How vivid #14B8A6 can get

At its lightness and hue, sRGB reaches OKLCH chroma 0.126; #14B8A6 uses 98% of it. Display P3, which many recent phones and laptops show, reaches 0.170 there: 35% more.

sRGB
Display P3
Rec. 2020
Dominant wavelength

OKLCH chroma: 0.123
sRGB edge: 0.126
Display P3 edge: 0.170
Rec. 2020 edge: 0.272
Dominant wavelength: 496 nm
Excitation purity: 27%
Chromaticity: x 0.2350, y 0.3594

This color#14B8A6
Most vivid in sRGB#00B8A6
Most vivid in Display P3oklch(0.704 0.170 182.5)

On a screen without Display P3 the last tile shows the sRGB edge instead.

Use the wider color where screens show it

.accent {
  color: #14b8a6;
}
@media (color-gamut: p3) {
  .accent { color: color(display-p3 0 0.7388 0.6615); }
}

Mixing

Mixing #14B8A6

Each row is the same mix worked out in a different space, with the halfway color at its end. sRGB, which older CSS gradients use, can sag gray or dark in the middle; OKLab keeps the lightness steps even; OKLCH holds chroma and hue as it goes.

White #FFFFFF

sRGB50%#8ADCD3
OKLab50%#A2DCD2
OKLCH50%#A2DCD2

Black #000000

sRGB50%#0A5C53
OKLab50%#03453E
OKLCH50%#03453E

Its complement #DE7D99

sRGB50%#799BA0
OKLab50%#9F9F9F
OKLCH50%#859AEC

In CSS

/* A gradient and a mix, worked out in OKLCH */
background: linear-gradient(in oklch, #14b8a6, white);
color: color-mix(in oklch, #14b8a6 50%, white);

In use

#14B8A6 in an interface

A button, a link, a heading, a focused field, an icon and a chart line in this color, on a light page and a dark one. Each check is a WCAG 2 contrast minimum: 1.4.3 for text, 1.4.11 for the rest.

Light page

Button labelText, 4.5:18.43:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:12.48:1 Fails
Large headingLarge text, 3:12.48:1 Fails
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:12.48:1 Fails

For text on this page, the nearest shade that passes is #008577 4.54:1

Dark page

Button labelText, 4.5:18.43:1 Passes
Link and body-size textText, 4.5:17.52:1 Passes
Large headingLarge text, 3:17.52:1 Passes
Icons, borders and focus ringsNon-text, 3:17.52:1 Passes

Color vision

How #14B8A6 looks with color blindness

Deuteranopia changes it most, ΔE2000 25.5; tritanopia changes it least, 3.1.

Simulated with Machado et al. (2009) at full severity, in linear light.

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Protanopia

No working red (long-wavelength) cones

#AFADA5 ΔE2000 24.1

Distinct

Reads as light gray
Deuteranopia

No working green (medium-wavelength) cones

#9B9EA8 ΔE2000 25.5

Distinct

Reads as gray
Tritanopia

No working blue (short-wavelength) cones

#00BCB2 ΔE2000 3.1

Close match

Reads as light soft cyan
Achromatopsia

No cone color vision; lightness only

#A4A4A4 ΔE2000 24.2

Distinct

Reads as gray

Pairing check

Checked against its complement, #DE7D99. Their lightness contrast is only 1.12:1, so where hue collapses, add a label, icon or pattern.

Vision	The pair	ΔE2000	Verdict
Normal vision	#14B8A6 · #DE7D99	59.9	Stays distinct
Protanopia	#AFADA5 · #8C8F9A	13.6	Stays distinct
Deuteranopia	#9B9EA8 · #A4A197	10.5	Stays distinct
Tritanopia	#00BCB2 · #ED7687	60.3	Stays distinct
Achromatopsia	#A4A4A4 · #9A9A9A	3.1	Easily confused

Harmony

Color harmonies for #14B8A6

Its complement is #DE7D99, a light soft pink, on the warm side of the wheel.

Hue rotations in OKLCH, mapped into sRGB by trimming chroma so hue and lightness stay put.

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Base#14B8A6
Complement#DE7D99

Complementary

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−30°#5DB57A
Base#14B8A6
+30°#00B3CC

Analogous

Open in Harmony Studio

Base#14B8A6
+120°#AE8CDF
+240°#D58D47

Triadic

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Base#14B8A6
+150°#CC82C1
+210°#E1816D

Split-complementary

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Code

Design tokens

Ready-to-paste tokens in six formats. Rename them to fit your system.

CSS custom property

:root {
  --color-teal-500: #14b8a6;
}

Tailwind config

// tailwind.config.js — already built in as teal-500;
// pin the v3 value explicitly like this:
module.exports = {
  theme: {
    extend: {
      colors: {
        teal: { 500: '#14b8a6' },
      },
    },
  },
};

Tailwind v4 theme

/* app.css — Tailwind CSS v4 */
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  /* v4 has its own teal-500; this pins the v3 value. */
  --color-teal-500: oklch(0.704 0.123 182.5);
}

Design token (W3C DTCG)

{
  "color": {
    "teal-500": {
      "$type": "color",
      "$value": {
        "colorSpace": "srgb",
        "components": [0.0784, 0.7216, 0.651],
        "hex": "#14b8a6"
      },
      "$description": "Tailwind CSS v3 teal-500"
    }
  }
}

SwiftUI color

import SwiftUI

enum Palette {
    static let teal500 = Color(.sRGB, red: 0.078, green: 0.722, blue: 0.651, opacity: 1)
}

Jetpack Compose color

import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color

object Palette {
    val Teal500 = Color(0xFF14B8A6)
}

Matches

The nearest match in each system

The closest CSS name, Tailwind shade, RAL Classic paint and Crayola crayon by ΔE2000; under 2 is hard to tell apart side by side. RAL and Crayola values approximate physical colors.

Tools

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Tailwind teal-500 #14B8A6

#14B8A6 color codes

Contrast: is #14B8A6 accessible?

Black text on it

White text on it

As text on black

As text on white

Nearest versions that pass 4.5:1

Adjust #14B8A6 live

Shades and tints of #14B8A6

Tailwind CSS v3 teal scale

How vivid #14B8A6 can get

Mixing #14B8A6

#14B8A6 in an interface

How #14B8A6 looks with color blindness

Protanopia

Deuteranopia

Tritanopia

Achromatopsia

Pairing check

Color harmonies for #14B8A6

Complementary

Analogous

Triadic

Split-complementary

Design tokens

CSS custom property

Tailwind config

Tailwind v4 theme

Design token (W3C DTCG)

SwiftUI color

Jetpack Compose color

The nearest match in each system

Similar colors

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