What colors make Cyan?
On this page, you will find the Cyan Hex, RGB, Hue Saturation Light (HSL), and CMYK color codes. We also include shades and variations of Cyan, color palettes, and related colors.
Cyan color code
The Cyan hex code is #00FFFF. The Cyan hex code can be quantified in RGB values which represent the amount of Red, Green and Blue color channels. The RGB value is an estimated amount of red, green, and blue color to create the color Cyan. The RGB estimate is:
- Red: #00 in Hex amounts to 0%
- Green: #FF in Hex amounts to 100%
- Blue: #FF in Hex amounts to 100%
Cyan in HSL
HSL is an acronym which stands for Hue, Saturation, and Lightness. HSL was developed for television and standardized for computer displays.
Hue is the perceived color name. Saturation is the "colorfulness" relative to the color's brightness. Brightness is our human eye's quantifed perception of the spectral light distribution. Lightness is the color brightness relative to a perceived similarly illuminated white.
Brightness and "colorfulness" are absolute measures, while Lightness and and Saturation are relative measures.
Cyan is 180deg, 100%, 50% HSL.
- Hue: 180deg
- Saturation: 100%
- Light: 50%
Cyan color in CMYK color model
The CMYK color model is commonly used in printing. The CMYK acronym stands for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Key. Where key is black. Since the black color is the absence of light, the CMYK is a subtractive color model. White light minus red is cyan, minus green is magenta, minus blue is yellow.
Cyan is 100% 0% 0% 0% CMYK.
- Cyan: 100%
- Magenta: 0%
- Yellow: 0%
- Key (or Black): 0%
Different shades of Cyan
According to its HSL value, Cyan contains about 50% of brightness.
Below are the all the values in HEX, HSL and CMYK color spaces for each shade variations:
- Hex HSL CMYK
- #CCFEFE 180deg, 100%, 90% 19%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #99FEFF 180deg, 100%, 80% 40%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #65FEFF 180deg, 100%, 70% 59%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #32FEFF 180deg, 100%, 60% 80%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #00FEFF 180deg, 100%, 50% 100%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #00CBCC 180deg, 100%, 40% 100%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #009899 180deg, 100%, 30% 100%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #006566 180deg, 100%, 20% 100%, 0%, 0%, 99%
- #003233 180deg, 100%, 10% 100%, 0%, 0%, 99%
Accessibility tips when using the color Cyan
Ensure your content remains available to the broadest possible audience. Make sure the text color has enough contrast with its background. When using Cyan on text, we recommend you use black for the background.
The reason Cyan contrasts better with a black background is because Cyan has a degree of brightness of 50% which provides better contrast on a dark background.
The Cyan color palette hex codes.
There are a few color palettes available when working with Cyan, but below is our favorite:
- Red
#FF0000 - Vitamin C
#FF9900 - Electric Lime
#CCFF00 - Signal Green
#33FF00 - Cathode Green
#00FF55 - Blue Ribbon
#0066FF
By interpolating Hue and Saturation values, we can also generate great color palettes inspired from Cyan
- White
#FFFFFF - Blanched Almond
#FFEBCD - Light Yellow
#FFFF99 - Poisonous Dart
#77FF66 - Emerald Ice Palace
#2AF589 - Blue Ribbon
#0066FF
Below is a series of palettes generated from the color Cyan:
Palette variances of 3 colors:
- #00FEFF
- #E9FF00
- #FF00D4
- #00FEFF
- #00FF44
- #77FF00
- #BB00FF
- #00FEFF
- #BAFF00
Palette variances of 4 colors:
- #5500FF
- #00FEFF
- #54FF00
- #FF5500
- #00FEFF
- #00FF6A
- #2AFF00
- #BFFF00
- #FF002A
- #6A00FF
- #00FEFF
- #6AFF00
Palette variances of 5 colors:
- #F200FF
- #4C00FF
- #0059FF
- #00FEFF
- #00FF59
- #7600FF
- #1900FF
- #0043FF
- #00A1FF
- #00FEFF
- #32FF00
- #FF9900
- #FF0098
- #3200FF
- #00FEFF
Palette variances of 6 colors:
- #FF00CB
- #A500FF
- #1900FF
- #0072FF
- #00FEFF
- #00FF72
- #FE00FF
- #9800FF
- #3200FF
- #0032FF
- #0098FF
- #00FEFF
- #0098FF
- #00FEFF
- #00FF99
- #00FF33
- #32FF00
- #98FF00
You will find specific color values of Cyan on this page. For example, the Cyan HEX color code is #00FFFF. We offer a variety of color palette, variances, and an expert color mixer to develop color schemes. Related colors for Cyan are:
- Agressive Aqua color code is (0.0, 251.0, 255.0).
- Turquoise Blue color code is (0.0, 255.0, 239.0).
- Master Sword Blue color code is (0.0, 255.0, 238.0).
- Brain Freeze color code is (0.0, 238.0, 255.0).
- Arctic Water color code is (0.0, 252.0, 252.0).
- Vibrant Mint color code is (0.0, 255.0, 229.0).
- Ice Ice Baby color code is (0.0, 255.0, 221.0).
- Sea Green (Crayola) color code is (0.0, 255.0, 205.0).
- Plunge Pool color code is (0.0, 255.0, 204.0).
- Vivid Sky Blue color code is (0.0, 204.0, 255.0).
These values can help you match the specific shade and find complementary colors. Looking for a different shade of blue? Our color mixer expertly generates nine different shades and eighteen color variances.
At ourpastimes.com, we are a creative team of product designers, engineers, and data scientists who want to make the internet a better place. We have poured over color theory, the math is tougher than you think, and built a showcase for color combinations.
We started by building a great virtual color mixer. We hope everyone has seen a color wheel. Personally, I loved the color wheel in my art classroom growing up. The acrylic paints like Titanium White, Burnt sienna, Dioxazine Purple make combining colors visceral and our color mixer virtually offers that visceral feeling of color mixing paints. Use our color mixer to build your next color scheme!
The color wheel pickers showcase 12 main colors. The three primary colors are red, green, and blue. When combined together, the primary colors create pure white light. Secondary colors result from mixing two primary colors:
- Red and Green make Yellow.
- Green and Blue make Cyan.
- Blue and Red make Magenta .
Combining a secondary color and a primary color yields tertiary colors. There are six tertiary colors. The six color names are orange, chartreuse green, spring green, azure, violet and rose. Colors continue to expand, for example, halfway between blue and violet is indigo, color code #4B0082, and violet is halfway between blue and purple.
So, the color wheel includes twelve main colors: red, orange, yellow, chartreuse green, green, spring green, cyan, azure, blue, violet, magenta, and rose.
But how do you mix paint color? To mix acrylic paint to make gold you mix in a small quantity of brown paint (approximately one part brown to 10 parts yellow). Our color mixer is expert at mixing color by parts. Adjust the color levels with an easy toggle and we handle the math to generate the resulting hex code, RGB and HSL.
Included in our color pages are color palettes, we generate color combinations between three and six colors. We call each different color mixture “palette variances.” Each color palette variance includes eighteen color mixes with HEX code displayed.
A third component we provide on this page is color shades. For example, shades of Cyan include Agressive Aqua, Turquoise Blue, Master Sword Blue, Brain Freeze, Arctic Water, Vibrant Mint, Ice Ice Baby, Sea Green (Crayola), Plunge Pool, and Vivid Sky Blue. We offer nine tints and shades for each color. A color shade is found by adjusting the color saturation to find a darker hue. A color tint is a lighter color. For example, pink is a tint of red.
