#6CB1C3a cool light turquoise

At a glance#6CB1C3, oklch(72.1% 0.074 216.3), is a cool light turquoise, close to Water Music #6FB0BE or Riverside Blue #6CB4C3. Pair it with a warm medium scarlet #C87D60 as an accent, a cool bold blue #4F7AB9 for harmony, and a cool faded blue #BBC7CA as a neutral. Try it as a brand or accent color, and it takes black text at AA contrast and reproduces faithfully on coated presses.
Color codes

#6CB1C3 in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

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Color family

What kind of blue is #6CB1C3?

Every color has a place in the standard vocabulary. This is #6CB1C3's, measured rather than asserted.

#6CB1C3's Munsell numbers: hue 5.1B, value 6.8 (how light), chroma 5.3 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block light greenish blue, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 5.3 is low. This is a greyed, muted blue, nearer neutral than vivid, which is why it reads as a surface rather than an accent.

There's still some room before it hits the edge of what your screen can show for this hue. It could go a little more saturated and stay in gamut.

Munsell coordinates and block from the ISCC-NBS system, computed by Rhapsody's own renotation inversion.

Tints & shades

Shades of #6CB1C3, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #6CB1C3. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, turquoise-400.

Tints (light surfaces; dark text passes on every one)

Midtones (the color at full strength, for brand & accent work)

Shades (dark surfaces; light text passes on every one)

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Accessibility

Is #6CB1C3 accessible? Contrast with white & black

Strong contrast makes your work readable by everyone, and meets the WCAG standard accessibility law points at. AA is the floor; AAA is the tier worth aiming for in body text. Black text on #6CB1C3 clears WCAG AAA. Every strip below is one surface, and the marks are the steps that reach AAA on it.

Rows are text, columns are background · 62 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

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Print

#6CB1C3 in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

Every held press standard prints this color exactly as it is.

In CMYK, #6CB1C3 is . That is the value design tools and file formats use when no press is involved.

On press (what each standard prints)

CGATS21 CRPC1 (coldset news) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) prints exactly
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in gamut · no shift

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
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in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
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in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
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in gamut · no shift

APTEC Flexo Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

CGATS21 CRPC7 (extended gamut) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Press values computed through the ICC characterization data each standard proofs against. Each CMYK held to prints the color exactly.

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The strip shows this page's tints and shades on screen, then through a standard GRACoL 2013 conversion.

The Turquoises

Colors similar to #6CB1C3

This color sits in The Turquoises, close to the border with The Aquas. Explore The Turquoises

The row runs warmer on the left, cooler on the right.

The wheel's warm pole sits near Pumpkin, its cool pole near Goluboy.

Named colors near this one: Water Music #6FB0BE (via color-name-list) · Riverside Blue #6CB4C3 (via color-name-list) · Delicate Girl Blue #6AB2CA (via color-name-list) · Sea Serenade #67B3BE (via color-name-list) · Blue Eye Samurai #75AEBD (via color-name-list)

Pairings

Colors that go with #6CB1C3

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a warm rich rose #D07184. Rhapsody's pick is the split complement, just to one side of it, a livelier pair.

The accent is for the moments that need attention, the harmony for the ones that need calm; the neutral carries the text and surfaces in between.

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#6CB1C3 color codes: hex #6CB1C3, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of #6CB1C3, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
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#6CB1C3 paired with a warm medium scarlet #C87D60, a cool bold blue #4F7AB9, a cool faded blue #BBC7CA: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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