Binary Runtime color palette

Binary Runtime is a 4-color palette drawing on teals and cyans. In OKLCH its lightness runs from 30% (#003436, dark) to 96% (#DDF9FF, very light), and its most saturated color, #74B3CF, is moderately saturated. 4 of its 4 chromatic colors sit on the cool side of the hue wheel. 3 of its 6 color pairs reach the WCAG AA ratio of 4.5:1 for body text. It is tagged tech, teal, blue, muted, cold and colorblind-friendly.

TechTealBlueMutedColdColorblind-friendly

Color codes

ColorHEXRGBHSLOKLCH
Midnight Green #003436 rgb(0, 52, 54) hsl(182, 100%, 11%) oklch(29.5% 0.05 198.9)
Teal #39766C rgb(57, 118, 108) hsl(170, 35%, 34%) oklch(52.2% 0.066 181.6)
Cool Steel #74B3CF rgb(116, 179, 207) hsl(198, 49%, 63%) oklch(73.4% 0.076 227.9)
Light Cyan #DDF9FF rgb(221, 249, 255) hsl(191, 100%, 93%) oklch(96.4% 0.03 212)

Accessibility

The best text and background pairs in Binary Runtime, by WCAG 2 contrast ratio, with the APCA lightness contrast (Lc) of the text on its background.

PairWCAG 2LevelAPCA Lc
#DDF9FF on #003436 12.35:1 AAA Lc -95.6
#003436 on #74B3CF 5.89:1 AA Lc 52.2
#DDF9FF on #39766C 4.79:1 AA Lc -74.1

Color vision

No pair of colors comes within ΔE 0.06 of another under protanopia, deuteranopia, tritanopia or achromatopsia. It is tagged colorblind-friendly: every pair stays at least ΔE 0.14 apart.

  • Protanopia

  • Deuteranopia

  • Tritanopia

  • Achromatopsia

Use it in code

Install these colors as Tailwind CSS v4 theme colors with shadcn: npx shadcn@latest add https://getcolors.so/r/palette/003436-39766c-74b3cf-ddf9ff.json.

Make it your own

Edit the colors, build a full light and dark color system from them, or see them on real UI.

Gradients from these colors