#5ECFC4 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 #5ECFC4 works with other colors. Named schemes with #5ECFC4 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 #5ECFC4 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 #5ECFC4 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #5ECFC4;
--color-base-rgb: 94 207 196;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(78.6% 0.104 186.7);
--color-50: #F3FCFB;
--color-100: #DFF6F4;
--color-200: #C0ECE8;
--color-300: #95DAD3;
--color-400: #6CC6BD;
--color-500: #4BAAA0;
--color-600: #3F837C;
--color-700: #325D59;
--color-800: #233D3B;
--color-900: #172624;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
medium-turquoise: {
50: '#F3FCFB',
100: '#DFF6F4',
200: '#C0ECE8',
300: '#95DAD3',
400: '#6CC6BD',
500: '#4BAAA0',
600: '#3F837C',
700: '#325D59',
800: '#233D3B',
900: '#172624',
},
}
$base: #5ECFC4; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F3FCFB; $base-100: #DFF6F4; $base-200: #C0ECE8; $base-300: #95DAD3; $base-400: #6CC6BD; $base-500: #4BAAA0; $base-600: #3F837C; $base-700: #325D59; $base-800: #233D3B; $base-900: #172624; $base-hover: #37B9AC; $base-subtle: #D3EDEA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#5ECFC4",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F3FCFB",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DFF6F4",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C0ECE8",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#95DAD3",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#6CC6BD",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#4BAAA0",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#3F837C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#325D59",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#233D3B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#172624",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}