What the Enduring Arch over Distilling

#2cacbf RGB(44,172,191)

About this color

What the Enduring Arch over Distilling is a vivid, medium-dark cyan tone, fixed at #2cacbf in the RGB color space.

#2cacbfRGB(44, 172, 191)

HSL 188° · 63% saturation · 46% lightness

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Psychology

Mid cyan is strongly associated with technology, precision, and a certain crisp modernity.

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History

Cyan as a printing ink became central to modern colour reproduction — the C in CMYK — because its complement to red allows the full printable colour range.

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Design use

Practically, this medium-dark cyan is comfortable as interactive elements, tags, badges, and highlight states. It has enough saturation to register clearly without straining extended-reading contexts.

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Colour pairings

For palette building, cyan complements warm reds and red-oranges — a palette of technological energy. For calmer use, pair with white, light grey, and the lightest tints of the same hue.

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Color Categories

Color formats

Name
What the Enduring Arch over Distilling
HEX
#2cacbf
RGB
rgb(44,172,191)
RGB%
rgb(17.3%,67.5%,74.9%)
HSL
hsl(188,63%,46%)
HSV
hsv(188,77%,75%)
CMYK
cmyk(77,10,0,25)
LAB
lab(65,-27,-19)
LCH
lch(65,33,215)
sRGB
(0.173,0.675,0.749)
HEX8
#2cacbfff
CSS Name
Decimal
044172191

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Color info

Lightness
46%
Saturation
63%
Hue
188°
Chroma
33
Temperature
WarmCool
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