#49CCC8 is a mid-toned, cool cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered. It sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #49CCC8 works with other colors. Named schemes with #49CCC8 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Medium Turquoise opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Medium Turquoise keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Medium 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 Medium Turquoise carrying the quiet middle.
Medium 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 Medium Turquoise.
Medium 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 #49CCC8 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 #49CCC8 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #49CCC8;
--color-base-rgb: 73 204 200;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(77.4% 0.113 192.2);
--color-50: #F3FCFC;
--color-100: #DFF7F6;
--color-200: #BFEDEB;
--color-300: #93DCD9;
--color-400: #6BC7C4;
--color-500: #49ACA8;
--color-600: #3E8481;
--color-700: #315E5C;
--color-800: #233E3D;
--color-900: #172626;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
medium-turquoise: {
50: '#F3FCFC',
100: '#DFF7F6',
200: '#BFEDEB',
300: '#93DCD9',
400: '#6BC7C4',
500: '#49ACA8',
600: '#3E8481',
700: '#315E5C',
800: '#233E3D',
900: '#172626',
},
}
$base: #49CCC8; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCFC; $base-100: #DFF7F6; $base-200: #BFEDEB; $base-300: #93DCD9; $base-400: #6BC7C4; $base-500: #49ACA8; $base-600: #3E8481; $base-700: #315E5C; $base-800: #233E3D; $base-900: #172626; $base-hover: #30ACA8; $base-subtle: #CDEBEA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#49CCC8",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF7F6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BFEDEB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#93DCD9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6BC7C4",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#49ACA8",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3E8481",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#315E5C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#233E3D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172626",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}