shades of teal

The transition between green and blue, roughly 161° to 190°, where naming gets unreliable.

The shade ramp

Same hue and saturation, brightness falling from near-white to near-black. This is what most people mean by “shades of teal”.

#36F5E5

#30DCCE

#2BC3B6

#25AA9F

#209188

#1A7870

#155F59

#0F4642

#0A2D2A

#041413

Brightness ramp at hue 175°, saturation 78%.

The tint ramp

Same hue and brightness, saturation climbing from almost gray to full strength. Saturation is the channel players misjudge most often, because a washed-out teal and a vivid one carry the same name.

#D8EBE9

#C0EBE7

#A8EBE5

#90EBE3

#78EBE1

#60EBDF

#48EBDD

#30EBDB

#18EBD9

#00EBD7

Saturation ramp at hue 175°, brightness 92%.

Across the range

Everything the eye files under teal, sampled from 161° to 190°. Two colors at opposite ends of this strip still share one word.

#28E0A6

#28E0B0

#28E0BA

#28E0C4

#28E0CE

#28E0D8

#28DFE0

#28D5E0

#28CCE0

#28C2E0

Hue sweep from 161° to 190°.

Named teals

Teal#008080
Turquoise#40E0D0
Aquamarine#7FFFD4
Pine green#01796F
Sea green#2E8B57

Why teal is hard to remember

Teal, turquoise and cyan cover overlapping ground with no agreed boundary, so people store the colour as a contested word rather than a value. When the word is unstable, the recall is too.

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