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Untroubled Grace Teal

#0e827c
Notes

Untroubled Grace Teal (#0E827C) is a deep cyan 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 (177°, 81%, 28%) 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
#0e827c
RGB
rgb(14, 130, 124)
HSL
hsl(177, 81%, 28%)
HWB
hwb(177 5% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.8% 0.092 189.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2300 0.5021 0.4843)
HSV
hsv(177, 89%, 51%)
LAB
lab(48.90% -30.31 -5.15)
LCH
lch(48.90% 30.74 189.64)
CMYK
cmyk(89%, 0%, 5%, 49%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Grace
modifier

Latin gratia, favor-or-thankfulness. As a color modifier, grace implies a flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed quality, the visual register of Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-grace hand-flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-and-Renaissance-classical graced-and-flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed surfaces under Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-and-Renaissance-classical chiton-and-laurel-wreath-and-fountain Florentine-pavilion-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to charm and bliss in usage.

Teal
noun

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.

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.

#0e827c
Original
#7a7a7c
Protanopia
#6b707d
Deuteranopia
#008680
Tritanopia
#696969
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).
AAon White
4.66:1
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
4.50:1

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
##0E827C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2300 0.5021 0.4843)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.092

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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