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Jazzed Sininen

#21c6f5
Notes

Jazzed Sininen (#21C6F5) is a true cyan with a neon character. It sits at the high-saturation edge of its family. Use it sparingly, as signage, accent, or highlight against darker surfaces. Its HSL profile (193°, 91%, 55%) 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
#21c6f5
RGB
rgb(33, 198, 245)
HSL
hsl(193, 91%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(193 13% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.9% 0.139 223.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3699 0.7652 0.9417)
HSV
hsv(193, 87%, 96%)
LAB
lab(74.38% -23.52 -34.29)
LCH
lch(74.38% 41.58 235.56)
CMYK
cmyk(87%, 19%, 0%, 4%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Sininen
noun

The Finnish word for blue — used for the Suomenlippu (Finnish flag) and the saturated blue of Finnish lake water. Sininen covers the entire blue-cyan spectrum in Finnish color vocabulary. The color refers to a Finnish lake at midsummer: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue with the optical depth of clear glacial-lake water.

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.

#21c6f5
Original
#abc1f7
Protanopia
#91aff4
Deuteranopia
#00d4d5
Tritanopia
#a6a6a6
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).
Failon White
2.01:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
10.46:1

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
##21C6F5
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3699 0.7652 0.9417)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.139

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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