Turquoise is the friendly version of cyan , the same blue green region, but shifted slightly towards green and pulled back from the harsh intensity of the pure secondary. It is bright, saturated and much easier to look at than the colour it descends from.
Ambient colour without the harshness
Full cyan at #00FFFF is one of the more aggressive fields on this site. Turquoise keeps the cool, water like character while dropping enough intensity to work as a room light or a background you can leave up. On a second display or a tablet aimed at a wall it produces a soft blue green wash that reads clearly as deliberate.
On camera
As a light source, turquoise is the strongly cool option , the counterpart to coral or orange on the other side of a subject. That warm cool split is the most common two tone setup in portrait and product work, and two screens will get you a usable version of it before you buy anything.
What this turquoise screen offers
- Bright
#40E0D0with no gradient or texture - The cool character of cyan without its intensity
- A strong cool light for two tone lighting setups
- Free hex entry across the aqua and turquoise range
- Live preview as the colour changes
- One press fullscreen with no browser interface
- Controls fade so nothing appears on camera
- PNG, JPG, WebP or SVG export at common presets or any custom size
- Nothing uploaded, no account required
- Keyboard accessible with visible focus states
Related screens
Cyan for the pure secondary and the red subpixel test, teal for the dark muted version, green and blue for the primaries either side.
Turquoise screen questions
Turquoise or cyan?
Cyan if you are testing a panel, because it switches red fully off and finds a stuck red subpixel. Turquoise if you want a background or a light, because it is far more comfortable to look at while keeping the same cool character.