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Trustworthy Cumin Kingfisher

#24a3b1
Notes

Trustworthy Cumin Kingfisher (#24A3B1) 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 (186°, 66%, 42%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. 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
#24a3b1
RGB
rgb(36, 163, 177)
HSL
hsl(186, 66%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(186 14% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(65.7% 0.105 206.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3124 0.6300 0.6852)
HSV
hsv(186, 80%, 69%)
LAB
lab(61.43% -27.89 -16.77)
LCH
lch(61.43% 32.54 211.01)
CMYK
cmyk(80%, 8%, 0%, 31%)

Etymology

Trustworthy
adjective

Old English trēow, trust — adjectival suffix -worthy. As a color modifier, trustworthy implies a clear-and-reliable-and-honest quality where the hue carries the visual register of confidence-deserving-and-faithful-performance design-element. Sits at the crisp-and-honest end of the grid, parallel to reliable and dependable in usage.

Cumin
modifier

Greek κύμινον, aromatic-Levantine-seed. As a color modifier, cumin implies a warm-Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal quality, the visual register of Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin hand-warm-Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin-and-Aleppo-and-Marrakesh cumin-and-warm-Levantine surfaces under Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin-and-Aleppo-and-Marrakesh Aleppo-and-Marrakesh-and-Lahore Levantine-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to caraway and pepper in usage.

Kingfisher
noun

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.

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.

#24a3b1
Original
#949cb2
Protanopia
#828eb1
Deuteranopia
#00aaa7
Tritanopia
#898989
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
3.02:1
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
6.95:1

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
##24A3B1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3124 0.6300 0.6852)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.105

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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