CSS named colour

Pale Turquoise

#afeeee

A CSS named colour: paleturquoise is valid anywhere a colour is expected.

RGB: rgb(175 238 238)
HSL: 180°, 65%, 81%
OKLCh: 90.7% 0.063 196.1

Pale Turquoise in every format

Web & CSSThe everyday formats for stylesheets and design tools.

Hex	`#afeeee`
RGB	`rgb(175 238 238)`
RGB legacy	`rgb(175, 238, 238)`
RGB percent	`rgb(68.63% 93.33% 93.33%)`
HSL	`hsl(180 64.9% 81%)`
HSL legacy	`hsl(180, 64.9%, 81%)`
HSV / HSB	`hsv(180, 26.5%, 93.3%)`
HWB	`hwb(180 68.6% 6.7%)`
Nearest name	`paleturquoise`
CMYK	`cmyk(26.5%, 0%, 0%, 6.7%)`Naive conversion. Real print work needs an ICC profile.

Perceptual & wide gamutModern CSS colour spaces for uniform scales and P3 displays.

OKLCh	`oklch(90.691% 0.06323 196.092)`Modern CSS colour space for even palettes — better than HSL when building scales.
OKLab	`oklab(90.691% -0.06075 -0.01753)`
CIE LCh	`lch(89.866% 21.59 198.253)`
CIE Lab	`lab(89.866% -20.503 -6.762)`
Display P3	`color(display-p3 0.7382 0.9265 0.9298)`
Rec. 2020	`color(rec2020 0.766 0.9091 0.9214)`
srgb-linear	`color(srgb-linear 0.4287 0.855 0.855)`Light-linear sRGB — the same numbers a shader wants for maths.
CIE XYZ (D65)	`color(xyz-d65 0.6368 0.7643 0.9229)`

ShadersGLSL, HLSL and WGSL vectors in both encoded and linear form.

GLSL vec3 — sRGB	`vec3(0.686, 0.933, 0.933)`Encoded values. Use when writing straight to the framebuffer.
GLSL vec3 — linear	`vec3(0.429, 0.855, 0.855)`Light-linear values. Use for lighting, blending and mixing.
GLSL vec4 — sRGB	`vec4(0.686, 0.933, 0.933, 1.0)`
GLSL vec4 — linear	`vec4(0.429, 0.855, 0.855, 1.0)`
GLSL ivec3	`ivec3(175, 238, 238)`
HLSL float3 — sRGB	`float3(0.686, 0.933, 0.933)`
HLSL float3 — linear	`float3(0.429, 0.855, 0.855)`
HLSL float4 — sRGB	`float4(0.686, 0.933, 0.933, 1.0)`
HLSL half4 — sRGB	`half4(0.686, 0.933, 0.933, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3f — sRGB	`vec3f(0.686, 0.933, 0.933)`
WGSL vec4f — sRGB	`vec4f(0.686, 0.933, 0.933, 1.0)`
WGSL vec3<f32> — linear	`vec3<f32>(0.429, 0.855, 0.855)`

Engines & appsConstructors for Unity, Unreal, Godot, Flutter, SwiftUI and Android.

Unity Color	`new Color(0.686f, 0.933f, 0.933f, 1.0f)`Color for everyday scripting (0–1). Color32 when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unity Color32	`new Color32(175, 238, 238, 255)`
Unreal FLinearColor	`FLinearColor(0.4287f, 0.855f, 0.855f, 1.0f)`FLinearColor for materials and lighting. FColor when you need whole numbers from 0 to 255.
Unreal FColor	`FColor(175, 238, 238, 255)`Whole numbers from 0 to 255 — use when an API asks for FColor, not FLinearColor.
Godot Color	`Color(0.686, 0.933, 0.933, 1)`
Flutter Color	`Color(0xFFAFEEEE)`Packed ARGB, so alpha comes first.
Android Color	`Color.rgb(175, 238, 238)`
SwiftUI Color	`Color(red: 0.686, green: 0.933, blue: 0.933)`
UIKit UIColor	`UIColor(red: 0.686, green: 0.933, blue: 0.933, alpha: 1)`

Raw valuesPacked integers and plain arrays.

0x hex	`0xAFEEEE`
0x hex (ARGB)	`0xFFAFEEEE`
Array 0–1	`[0.686, 0.933, 0.933]`
Array 0–255	`[175, 238, 238]`
Decimal integer	`11529966`

Contrast and accessibility

WCAG 2 ratios are what audits and legislation reference. APCA is shown alongside because WCAG 2 is known to misjudge mid-tone backgrounds, and it is the basis of the WCAG 3 draft.

Pairing	WCAG 2 ratio	Level	APCA	Suitable for
Pale Turquoise on white	1.29:1	Fail	Lc 14	Not usable for text
Pale Turquoise on black	16.29:1	AAA	Lc 90	Body text, 18px and up

Pale Turquoise text on a white background

Pale Turquoise text on a black background

White text on Pale Turquoise

Black text on Pale Turquoise

Tonal scale

Hue held fixed while lightness walks OKLCh, ready to use as a design system ramp.

50#d4ffff
100#c8f8f8
200#b4e8e8
300#9ad2d2
400#7bb6b6
500#5b9798
600#427d7d
700#2e6565
800#1d5151
900#0f4040
950#002526

Tints and shades

Mixed perceptually toward white and black, so the steps feel evenly spaced.

Tint 1#bdf1f1
Tint 2#cbf4f4
Tint 3#d8f7f7
Tint 4#e5faf9
Tint 5#f2fcfc
Shade 1#88bbbb
Shade 2#648a8a
Shade 3#415c5c
Shade 4#223232
Shade 5#070d0d

Colours that work with Pale Turquoise

Complementary, triadic and analogous partners, rotated in OKLCh so they keep the same apparent brightness.

#ffd0d2
#f1d4fd
#f9dbb2
#b9eed7
#b4eaff

Closest CSS names

paleturquoiseexact match
powderblueΔEok 0.036
lightblueΔEok 0.057
gainsboroΔEok 0.064
lavenderΔEok 0.073
lightgrayΔEok 0.075