#28EEE4 is a soft, cool cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #28EEE4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #28EEE4 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Turquoise opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Turquoise keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Turquoise 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 Turquoise carrying the quiet middle.
Turquoise is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Turquoise.
Turquoise 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.
How #28EEE4 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 #28EEE4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #28EEE4;
--color-base-rgb: 40 238 228;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(85.9% 0.143 189.3);
--color-50: #F0FEFE;
--color-100: #D8FDFB;
--color-200: #B4F9F5;
--color-300: #81EEE9;
--color-400: #53DFD8;
--color-500: #30C5BE;
--color-600: #2C9691;
--color-700: #256A66;
--color-800: #1C4543;
--color-900: #132A29;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
turquoise: {
50: '#F0FEFE',
100: '#D8FDFB',
200: '#B4F9F5',
300: '#81EEE9',
400: '#53DFD8',
500: '#30C5BE',
600: '#2C9691',
700: '#256A66',
800: '#1C4543',
900: '#132A29',
},
}
$base: #28EEE4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEFE; $base-100: #D8FDFB; $base-200: #B4F9F5; $base-300: #81EEE9; $base-400: #53DFD8; $base-500: #30C5BE; $base-600: #2C9691; $base-700: #256A66; $base-800: #1C4543; $base-900: #132A29; $base-hover: #11D0C6; $base-subtle: #C6F3F1;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#28EEE4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEFE",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDFB",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B4F9F5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#81EEE9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#53DFD8",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#30C5BE",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2C9691",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#256A66",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1C4543",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132A29",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}