#288484 is a mid-toned, cool cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, with a faded, vintage edge. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #288484 works with other colors. Named schemes with #288484 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Teal Green opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Teal Green keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Teal Green plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Teal Green anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Teal Green is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Teal Green carrying the quiet middle.
How #288484 actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #288484 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #288484;
--color-base-rgb: 40 132 132;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(56.1% 0.084 195.0);
--color-50: #F3FCFC;
--color-100: #DFF6F6;
--color-200: #C1ECEC;
--color-300: #95DADA;
--color-400: #6DC5C5;
--color-500: #4CA9A9;
--color-600: #408282;
--color-700: #325D5D;
--color-800: #243D3D;
--color-900: #172626;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
teal-green: {
50: '#F3FCFC',
100: '#DFF6F6',
200: '#C1ECEC',
300: '#95DADA',
400: '#6DC5C5',
500: '#4CA9A9',
600: '#408282',
700: '#325D5D',
800: '#243D3D',
900: '#172626',
},
}
$base: #288484; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCFC; $base-100: #DFF6F6; $base-200: #C1ECEC; $base-300: #95DADA; $base-400: #6DC5C5; $base-500: #4CA9A9; $base-600: #408282; $base-700: #325D5D; $base-800: #243D3D; $base-900: #172626; $base-hover: #216A6A; $base-subtle: #B8E1E1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#288484",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF6F6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C1ECEC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#95DADA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6DC5C5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4CA9A9",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#408282",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#325D5D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#243D3D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172626",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}