Antique Border beyond the Mending

#00adaa RGB(0,173,170)

About this color

Antique Border beyond the Mending is rendered by screens as RGB(0, 173, 170) — a dark, intense cyan hue.

#00adaaRGB(0, 173, 170)

HSL 179° · 100% saturation · 34% lightness

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Psychology

Dark cyans feel aquatic and technical — deep ocean, industrial machinery, precision instruments.

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History

Cerulean, a blue-green pigment introduced in the nineteenth century, became important to Impressionist painters for capturing sky and water with unprecedented freshness.

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Design use

Practically speaking, this deep cyan is most at home as a background for light-coloured text, as a deep accent stripe, or as an anchoring tone in dark-mode interfaces. It pairs naturally with off-whites, warm creams, and metallic highlights.

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Colour pairings

When it comes to colour harmony, combine this cyan with coral and warm white for a fresh, modern palette, or with deep navy and charcoal for a more serious, technical feel.

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Color formats

Name
Antique Border beyond the Mending
HEX
#00adaa
RGB
rgb(0,173,170)
RGB%
rgb(0%,67.8%,66.7%)
HSL
hsl(179,100%,34%)
HSV
hsv(179,100%,68%)
CMYK
cmyk(100,0,2,32)
LAB
lab(64,-37,-9)
LCH
lch(64,38,194)
sRGB
(0,0.678,0.667)
HEX8
#00adaaff
CSS Name
Decimal
000173170

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Color info

Lightness
34%
Saturation
100%
Hue
179°
Chroma
38
Temperature
WarmCool
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