#4DD5CC is a soft, cool cyan. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4DD5CC works with other colors. Named schemes with #4DD5CC 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 #4DD5CC 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 #4DD5CC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4DD5CC;
--color-base-rgb: 77 213 204;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(79.8% 0.117 188.8);
--color-50: #F2FDFC;
--color-100: #DDF8F6;
--color-200: #BDEFEC;
--color-300: #90E0DA;
--color-400: #66CCC5;
--color-500: #44B1AA;
--color-600: #3A8782;
--color-700: #2E605D;
--color-800: #223F3D;
--color-900: #162726;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
medium-turquoise: {
50: '#F2FDFC',
100: '#DDF8F6',
200: '#BDEFEC',
300: '#90E0DA',
400: '#66CCC5',
500: '#44B1AA',
600: '#3A8782',
700: '#2E605D',
800: '#223F3D',
900: '#162726',
},
}
$base: #4DD5CC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2FDFC; $base-100: #DDF8F6; $base-200: #BDEFEC; $base-300: #90E0DA; $base-400: #66CCC5; $base-500: #44B1AA; $base-600: #3A8782; $base-700: #2E605D; $base-800: #223F3D; $base-900: #162726; $base-hover: #2CBCB3; $base-subtle: #CFEEEC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4DD5CC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2FDFC",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DDF8F6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BDEFEC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#90E0DA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#66CCC5",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#44B1AA",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3A8782",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2E605D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#223F3D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#162726",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}