Color basics

Teal

A blue-green family between cyan and green, often used for calm, depth, medicine, and water.

Modern naming, ancient material roots Blue-green mixtures, water, minerals, modern design seed

What it is

Teal is a blue-green color family. It is modern as a design name, but its visual territory overlaps with older turquoise, verdigris, malachite, water, and patinated-copper associations.

Basics

Teal sits between blue/cyan and green.
It often reads as calm, aquatic, medical, technical, balanced, or sophisticated.
Teal can shift warmer toward green or cooler toward cyan depending on context.

Notes for later expansion

Later expansion should distinguish teal, turquoise, cyan, and blue-green pigment families.
Teal is useful for modern UI and brand palette examples.

What it is

Basics

Notes for later expansion

Tags