Greeny Blue #42B395

About this color

#42B395 is a medium-light, moderately saturated teal or cyan. In OKLCH its lightness is 69%, its chroma 0.112 and its hue 172°. Its hue sits on the cool side of the wheel. It is the named color Greeny Blue. Black text reads best on it, at 8.11:1.

Colors that go with Greeny Blue

Matches found by rotating Greeny Blue around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Greeny Blue

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Greeny Blue, closest first.

• Spruce Blanket
• Sunlit Gate
• Mint Roadmap
• Metric Cloud
• Insight and Metric
• Launch Sprint
• Marble Recess
• Sunhat Weekend

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Greeny Blue, with their ΔE distance.

• Light Sea Green #20B2AA ΔE 0.033
• Topaz #13BBAF ΔE 0.037
• Tea #65AB7C ΔE 0.038
• Dark Seafoam Green #3EAF76 ΔE 0.042
• Bluey Green #2BB179 ΔE 0.043
• Dark Seafoam #1FB57A ΔE 0.046
• Green Blue #01C08D ΔE 0.046
• Medium Sea Green #3CB371 ΔE 0.051

More about Greeny Blue

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Greeny Blue

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 2 parts blue
• 2 parts white
• 1 part yellow

Recipe result: #5CA98C, a difference of ΔE 0.030 from Greeny Blue. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Greeny Blue in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Greeny Blue

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 400.

1. Step 50

   50

   #F0F8F5

   oklch(97.2% 0.009 171.8)

2. Step 100

   100

   #DDEEE8

   oklch(93.5% 0.02 172.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #C0E2D6

   oklch(88.5% 0.039 172)

4. Step 300

   300

   #92D0BC

   oklch(81% 0.07 172.4)

5. Step 400

   400 (this color)

   #42B395

   oklch(69.4% 0.112 172.2)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A181

   oklch(63.2% 0.122 172)

7. Step 600

   600

   #00876C

   oklch(55.5% 0.108 172.1)

8. Step 700

   700

   #00725B

   oklch(49.2% 0.095 172.3)

9. Step 800

   800

   #005D4A

   oklch(42.6% 0.082 172.5)

10. Step 900

    900

    #004E3D

    oklch(37.8% 0.073 171.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #002E24

    oklch(26.9% 0.051 173.7)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Greeny Blue with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.