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Calm Glauque

#069fc4
Notes

Calm Glauque (#069FC4) is a true cyan with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (192°, 94%, 40%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid 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
#069fc4
RGB
rgb(6, 159, 196)
HSL
hsl(192, 94%, 40%)
HWB
hwb(192 2% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(65.2% 0.120 222.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2785 0.6141 0.7533)
HSV
hsv(192, 97%, 77%)
LAB
lab(60.62% -21.26 -28.70)
LCH
lch(60.62% 35.72 233.47)
CMYK
cmyk(97%, 19%, 0%, 23%)

Etymology

Calm
adjective

Latin calma, heat of the day — paradoxically drifted in Italian to mean stillness. Used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as untroubled. Calm blue, calm gray: moderate saturation combined with optical quiet. Sits at the crisp-bucket near quiet and steady.

Glauque
noun

The French adjective for gray-blue-green — borrowed from the Greek glaukos, the epithet of the goddess Athena's eyes (glaukōpis). Used in French color vocabulary for the cold gray-blue of stormy seas and aged metal patina. The color refers to a cold Atlantic morning at Pointe du Raz: a soft, slightly cool deep gray-blue-green.

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.

#069fc4
Original
#899bc6
Protanopia
#748bc4
Deuteranopia
#00aaab
Tritanopia
#818181
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
3.10:1
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
6.76:1

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
##069FC4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2785 0.6141 0.7533)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.120

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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