Medium Aquamarine (#66cdaa) is a light, strong green. It is a CSS named color, so you can use it in stylesheets as color: mediumaquamarine as well as by its hex code. In RGB it is rgb(102, 205, 170); in HSL, hsl(160, 51%, 60%).
| Hex | #66cdaa |
|---|---|
| CSS name | mediumaquamarine |
| RGB | rgb(102, 205, 170) |
| HSL | hsl(160, 51%, 60%) |
| CMYK | 50%, 0%, 17%, 20% |
| CSS example | color: #66cdaa; background-color: rgb(102, 205, 170); |
The hue is calculated at seven exact lightness levels for use in backgrounds, borders, text and hover states. These values are not substituted with nearby named colors.
Complementary — maximum contrast, from opposite sides of the color wheel:
Analogous — neighbours on the wheel, naturally harmonious:
Triadic — three colors evenly spaced for balanced variety:
Tetradic — four colors at 90° intervals:
On a #66cdaa background, black text gives the better contrast. WCAG requires 4.5:1 for normal text and 3:1 for large text (AA), or 7:1 and 4.5:1 for AAA.
| Text color | Contrast ratio | Normal text | Large text |
|---|---|---|---|
| White text (#ffffff) | 1.93:1 | Fails | Fails |
| Black text (#000000) | 10.88:1 | AAA | AAA |
The CSS named colors closest to #66cdaa:
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