What the Bluff between Old-fashioned Shaping

#2da5a9 RGB(45,165,169)

About this color

What the Bluff between Old-fashioned Shaping carries its coordinates at #2da5a9: a medium-dark cyan with vivid saturation.

#2da5a9RGB(45, 165, 169)

HSL 182° · 58% saturation · 42% 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 formats

Name
What the Bluff between Old-fashioned Shaping
HEX
#2da5a9
RGB
rgb(45,165,169)
RGB%
rgb(17.6%,64.7%,66.3%)
HSL
hsl(182,58%,42%)
HSV
hsv(182,73%,66%)
CMYK
cmyk(73,2,0,34)
LAB
lab(62,-30,-11)
LCH
lch(62,32,200)
sRGB
(0.176,0.647,0.663)
HEX8
#2da5a9ff
CSS Name
Decimal
045165169

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Color info

Lightness
42%
Saturation
58%
Hue
182°
Chroma
32
Temperature
WarmCool
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