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Vitreous Fenugreek

#37c4a8
Notes

Vitreous Fenugreek (#37C4A8) is a true teal with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (168°, 56%, 49%) 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
#37c4a8
RGB
rgb(55, 196, 168)
HSL
hsl(168, 56%, 49%)
HWB
hwb(168 22% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.0% 0.124 176.2)
HSV
hsv(168, 72%, 77%)
LAB
lab(71.63% -43.54 3.38)
LCH
lch(71.63% 43.67 175.56)
CMYK
cmyk(72%, 0%, 14%, 23%)

Etymology

Vitreous
adjective

Latin vitreus, glass-like — derived from vitrum (glass). As a color modifier, vitreous implies a clear-and-glassy quality where the hue carries the optical clarity of polished crown-glass. Sits at the crisp-and-clear end of the grid, parallel to pellucid and crystalline in usage.

Fenugreek
noun

Trigonella foenum-graecum, the Mediterranean and South Asian legume whose seeds are essential to Indian and Ethiopian cooking. The color refers to fresh fenugreek leaves (called methi in Hindi): a soft, slightly cool deep yellow-green-blue with the matte finish of pinnate trifoliate leaf.

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.

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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.

#37c4a8
Original
#bdb8a7
Protanopia
#aaaaaa
Deuteranopia
#00c7bc
Tritanopia
#a4a4a4
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
2.18:1
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
9.62:1

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