Thick Bay without the Girding

#52acba RGB(82,172,186)

About this color

Thick Bay without the Girding is a moderate, medium cyan tone, fixed at #52acba in the RGB color space.

#52acbaRGB(82, 172, 186)

HSL 188° · 43% saturation · 53% 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 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
Thick Bay without the Girding
HEX
#52acba
RGB
rgb(82,172,186)
RGB%
rgb(32.2%,67.5%,72.9%)
HSL
hsl(188,43%,53%)
HSV
hsv(188,56%,73%)
CMYK
cmyk(56,8,0,27)
LAB
lab(66,-23,-15)
LCH
lch(66,27,213)
sRGB
(0.322,0.675,0.729)
HEX8
#52acbaff
CSS Name
Decimal
082172186

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Color info

Lightness
53%
Saturation
43%
Hue
188°
Chroma
27
Temperature
WarmCool
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