#7DC6BF 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 reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #7DC6BF works with other colors. Named schemes with #7DC6BF in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
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 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.
How #7DC6BF 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 #7DC6BF at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #7DC6BF;
--color-base-rgb: 125 198 191;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(77.7% 0.074 188.0);
--color-50: #F4FBFA;
--color-100: #E2F3F1;
--color-200: #C6E6E3;
--color-300: #9ED1CC;
--color-400: #79B9B3;
--color-500: #589D96;
--color-600: #497974;
--color-700: #385754;
--color-800: #273A38;
--color-900: #192423;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
medium-turquoise: {
50: '#F4FBFA',
100: '#E2F3F1',
200: '#C6E6E3',
300: '#9ED1CC',
400: '#79B9B3',
500: '#589D96',
600: '#497974',
700: '#385754',
800: '#273A38',
900: '#192423',
},
}
$base: #7DC6BF; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FBFA; $base-100: #E2F3F1; $base-200: #C6E6E3; $base-300: #9ED1CC; $base-400: #79B9B3; $base-500: #589D96; $base-600: #497974; $base-700: #385754; $base-800: #273A38; $base-900: #192423; $base-hover: #4FB2A8; $base-subtle: #DAEBE9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#7DC6BF",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E2F3F1",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C6E6E3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9ED1CC",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#79B9B3",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#589D96",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#497974",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#385754",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#273A38",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192423",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}