Pool Green Color

#00af9d

Pool Green is calm, cool-toned shade of warm cyan. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool red, cool yellow or cool magenta

Inverse Color #ff5062
Complementary Color #af0011
Color Shade: warm cyan (173.83° hue)
Color Temperature: cool
Lightness: 34.31% (better contrasting with white)
Pool Green Color Sample
Pool Green Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #00af9d

If you're looking for a similar warm cyan shade, there are some better alternatives to Pool Green Color. The Slime Girl color for instance is a lighter and a bit more faded option, however this color has a green cyan bias. Consider a darker and more soft alternative called Nifty Turquoise (#019187) for more calm effect. Try Free Speech Aquamarine as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#af0011 is the best complementary color to Pool Green. Cool red shades generally complement the warm cyan hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #00af9d complementary color is Bright Red, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of cool green, warm cyan, and cool cyan colors offers a soft combination of similar cool shades. The analogous colors of Persian Green are #00af45 and #0069af. Thus found on the left and right of #00af9d on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Green Haze and Allports colors as they work well with Pool Green.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Pool Green palette consists of #af4500 and #af0069 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#af0011). Try Fire and Flirt colors in combination with #00af9d, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #00af9d offers a combination of warm yellow and cool magenta shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Pool Green. Thus Buddha Gold and Purple giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Pool Green contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Bright Red, Purple, and Limeade split by 90° on the color wheel. #00af9d square combo is a palette of warm cyan, warm blue, cool red and cool yellow shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Pool Green tetradic combo consists of cool red complementary color (#af0011) and two others. The Purple is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Japanese Laurel – 120° from the complementary Bright Red. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #9c00af and #11af00.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #00af9d is made of 0% red, 53% green and 47% blue. In a HSL mode Pool Green has a hue angle of 173.83°, a saturation of 100% and a lightness of 34.31%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #00af9d is made of 68.63% cyan, 0% magenta, 7.06% yellow and 31.37% black ink.

HEX #00af9d
RGB Decimal rgb(0,175,157)
RGB Percentage 0%, 53%, 47%
CMYK 68.63, 0, 7.06, 31.37
HSL hsl(173.83,100%,34.31%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(173.83,100%,68.63%)
CIE-LAB lab(64.2372,-41.5967,-1.4229)
XYZ xyz(21.4158,33.0943,37.1574)
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