80 Shades of Aqua Color

Aqua captures the exact color of shallow tropical water, sitting right between blue and green on the wheel. These shades range from barely-there cyan to deeper teal-tinged tones that work surprisingly well as primary brand colors.Every aqua shade on this page comes with hex, RGB, and CMYK values. Coral and aqua are practically made for each other, in case you’re building a palette and need a starting point.

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Turquoise Panic Color
Turquoise has always been a strange color. It’s not quite blue. Not really green either. Somewhere in between, like a breath held underwater. But when you land on #30d5c8, something changes. This isn’t the soft spa turquoise of your yoga mat or the faded tile on your grandma’s porch. This is sharper. Brighter. Cooler. A little confrontational, even.
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Aqua Sky Color
A softened teal with a dusty edge, closer to a chalky swimming pool than the actual Caribbean. Aqua sky was Pantone’s Color of the Year in 2003 and briefly took over every wedding aisle. Still a solid pick for wellness branding and Mediterranean-inspired interiors.
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Aqua Blue Color
Aqua Blue color is a soft, medium aqua, nearly identical to Lifeboat Blue. At #79b6bc it’s far greyer than the CSS color aqua (#00ffff), which is pure cyan, so it resembles frosted sea glass on a beach in Maine.
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Aqua Color
Aqua shipped with the original 16 HTML web-safe colors in 1996, identical to Cyan and generated by maxing green and blue channels. On screen, aqua color (#00ffff) glows like a backlit pool at midnight. Pair it with a deep contrast color; on its own the shade tires the eyes.
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Green Aqua Color
Shallow lagoon water carries this pale mint with a watery coolness. Green Aqua brightens bathrooms and spas, landing between mint and seafoam.
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Aqua Grey Color
Sea mist, cool and clean. Aqua Grey suits bathrooms and coastal rooms, bridging grey and aqua without strain.
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Grey Aqua Color
Soft green-teal with a grey base. Grey Aqua color (#88b69f) is fresh on a bathroom vanity or a kitchen island. White tile brings out the green.