Plantation#27504B, a cool dark aqua

At a glancePlantation is #27504B, oklch(40.0% 0.047 185.2), a cool dark aqua. Pair it with a warm medium red #AE6062 as an accent, a cool light blue #6D97B8 for harmony, and a cool brilliant aqua #2CB0A3 the same color turned up. Put it to work as a text color on light backgrounds or a tinted neutral, and it holds AA contrast against white and reproduces faithfully on coated presses.
Color codes

Plantation in RGB, HSL, OKLCH & more

Ready to ship: every line pastes straight into your codebase, and the whole file copies at once.

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:root { /* how your code speaks it */ /* how your eyes measure it */ /* how the lab measures it, D65 2° */}/* tailwind v4 */

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Color family

What kind of teal is Plantation?

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

Plantation's Munsell numbers: hue 3.2BG, value 3.1 (how light), chroma 3.2 (how vivid). That places it in ISCC-NBS block dark bluish green, one of 267 named ranges the standard sorts every color into. Chroma 3.2 is low. This is a greyed, muted teal, 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 Plantation, lighter and darker

For hover states, washed backgrounds, and dark surfaces that still read as #27504B. 13 steps, spaced evenly by eye, with the color itself sitting at its natural depth, plantation-800.

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)

Rhapsody Palette

Most tools mix. Rhapsody measures.

Paste any color. The whole system comes back, contrast-checked before you see it.

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The window on the right was generated from #27504B, like this whole page.

Accessibility

Is Plantation 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. White text on #27504B 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 · 70 of 210 pairings reach WCAG 2.2 AAA, shown here.

Rhapsody Palette

Ship the audit, not screenshots.

Run #27504B against the colors you actually ship, every pairing and any target, and export it: exact ratios, the AA tier, APCA, in one file.

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The audit on the right was calibrated from #27504B, like this whole page.

Print

Plantation in CMYK: one value for files, one per press

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

In CMYK, #27504B 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) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 12.0, 4.8× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 Uncoated (CRPC3) shifts on press
on screenon press

shifts ΔE00 7.2, 2.9× the 2.5 a run varies by

GRACoL 2013 (CRPC6) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

PSO Coated v3 (FOGRA51) prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Coated FOGRA39 prints exactly
on screenon press

in gamut · no shift

Japan Color 2011 Coated prints exactly
on screenon press

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 Plantations

Colors similar to Plantation

Here are other colors similar to Plantation along with accessible text pairings and whether or not they're print-safe. Explore The Aquas

Dark Slate GrayDark Slate Gray#2F4F4Fwhite text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Dark Blue GreenDark Blue Green#005249white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
EdenEden#105852white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Evening SeaEvening Sea#024E46white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Dark TealDark Teal#014D4Ewhite text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Deep TealDeep Teal#00555Awhite text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Deep Sea GreenDeep Sea Green#095859white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Aqua DeepAqua Deep#014B43white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
SpectraSpectra#2F5A57white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Sherpa BlueSherpa Blue#004950white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Te Papa GreenTe Papa Green#1E433Cwhite text · AAA✓ prints exactly
CyprusCyprus#003E40white text · AAA✓ prints exactly
Pairings

Colors that go with Plantation

The complementary color, straight across the wheel, is a warm rich pink #C476A7. 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 vivid is the same color with the volume up, for when it has to shout.

Downloads

Take Plantation with you

The work on this page doesn't stay here. Save a card and the color arrives in your file, your deck or your board already decided.

Plantation color codes: hex #27504B, RGB, HSL, CMYK, and OKLCH, from Rhapsody
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The full tonal scale of Plantation, 13 steps from light to dark with every hex, from Rhapsody
Reach for the right depth instead of the one you have.
Plantation paired with a warm medium red #AE6062, a cool light blue #6D97B8, a cool brilliant aqua #2CB0A3: hex values and roles, from Rhapsody
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Rhapsody built it before you even asked: the scale, the neutrals, the utilities, every pairing calibrated.

This page's whole theme is built from one color. Palette does the same for yours: every step calibrated, every pairing checked, press included.

Every color on this page was calibrated, not mixed.

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