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Tailwind teal-950

The hex code of Tailwind teal-950 is #022f2e (rgb(2 47 46)), from its Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 value oklch(27.7% 0.046 192.524). White text on it reaches 14.50:1, passing WCAG AAA; below, Recolor (recolor.page) puts it on a page.

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#022f2eteal-950
From the theme file of Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 (--color-teal-950), converted with Recolor's color code, October 9, 2026
FormatValue
OKLCH, as Tailwind writes itoklch(27.7% 0.046 192.524)
Hex#022f2e
RGBrgb(2 47 46)
HSLhsl(179 92% 10%)
CSS variablevar(--color-teal-950)
Nearest CSS namedarkslategray #2f4f4f, 0.127 away in OKLab
White text14.50:1: AA passes, AAA passes, large text passes
Black text1.45:1: AA fails, AAA fails, large text fails

About teal-950

Read as numbers, teal-950 is lightness 27.7%, chroma 0.046 and hue 192.5 degrees; read by eye, it is a vivid very dark teal. Teal-950 is the last and darkest of the eleven teal shades, 10.9 points under teal-900.

Its HSL lightness, 10%, says little about how light teal-950 looks; OKLCH, made to match the eye, measures 27.7%, 18 points away. No gamut mapping is needed here: oklch(27.7% 0.046 192.524) sits inside sRGB and #022f2e matches it.

White on teal-950 reads at 14.50:1, enough for AAA body text; black reaches 1.45:1 and should stay off it. On the teal scale white text works from teal-700 to teal-950; teal-950 has 3 shades of margin.

CSS has no keyword in its neighborhood; darkslategray (#2f4f4f) is the nearest, a long 0.127 away in OKLab.

Tints and shades

  1. #d2d9d8
  2. #a6b4b3
  3. #7c908f
  4. #546e6d
  5. #2d4e4c
  6. #022f2e
  7. #012322
  8. #011716
  9. #000c0b
  10. #000303

From light to dark: 5 toward white and 4 toward black, mixed in OKLCH a sixth of the way at a time with the hue kept. A step that would repeat its neighbor is left out.

A palette around it

  1. #022f2e
  2. #ad60d0
  3. #fddcff
  4. #824a00
  5. #60d1c8

Around teal-950 as swatch 1, Recolor's generator made a triadic palette, three hues a third of the wheel apart: #ad60d0, #fddcff, #824a00, #60d1c8, drawn from a seed fixed by its hex. Open it in Recolor.

Using teal-950

Pair it with text-white, 14.50:1; teal-950 as text on a white page measures the same ratio. In CSS it is var(--color-teal-950).

HTML
<a class="bg-teal-950 text-white" href="/start">Get started</a>
<p class="text-teal-950">Text in teal-950</p>

Common questions

Does white text pass WCAG AA on Tailwind teal-950?

Yes. White text measures 14.50:1 on teal-950, above the 4.5:1 that WCAG AA asks of body text, and above AAA's 7:1 too.

Is Tailwind teal-950 defined in OKLCH?

Yes. Tailwind CSS 4.3.3 defines it as --color-teal-950: oklch(27.7% 0.046 192.524); #022f2e is its conversion to sRGB.

Is there a CSS named color for Tailwind teal-950?

No. The nearest CSS named color is darkslategray (#2f4f4f), 0.127 away in OKLab.

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