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Easy Tirkizhna

#03a291
Notes

Easy Tirkizhna (#03A291) is a deep teal with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (174°, 96%, 32%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#03a291
RGB
rgb(3, 162, 145)
HSL
hsl(174, 96%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(174 1% 36%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.9% 0.114 181.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2826 0.6257 0.5694)
HSV
hsv(174, 98%, 64%)
LAB
lab(59.80% -39.24 -1.19)
LCH
lch(59.80% 39.26 181.73)
CMYK
cmyk(98%, 0%, 10%, 36%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Tirkizhna
noun

The Slavic word for turquoise-colored — used across Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish color vocabulary for the saturated blue-green of Iranian and Central Asian turquoise. The color refers to a tirkizhna-glazed samovar: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the high gloss of fired ceramic.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#03a291
Original
#9a9890
Protanopia
#888b93
Deuteranopia
#00a59d
Tritanopia
#7f7f7f
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon White
3.19:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
6.58:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##03A291
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2826 0.6257 0.5694)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.114

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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