When Muffled Border round Cooling

#8aa69e RGB(138,166,158)

About this color

When Muffled Border round Cooling is a muted, medium cyan tone, fixed at #8aa69e in the RGB color space.

#8aa69eRGB(138, 166, 158)

HSL 163° · 14% saturation · 60% 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
When Muffled Border round Cooling
HEX
#8aa69e
RGB
rgb(138,166,158)
RGB%
rgb(54.1%,65.1%,62%)
HSL
hsl(163,14%,60%)
HSV
hsv(163,17%,65%)
CMYK
cmyk(17,0,5,35)
LAB
lab(66,-11,1)
LCH
lch(66,11,175)
sRGB
(0.541,0.651,0.62)
HEX8
#8aa69eff
CSS Name
Decimal
138166158

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Color info

Lightness
60%
Saturation
14%
Hue
163°
Chroma
11
Temperature
WarmCool
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