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Untroubled Syrup Teal

#3bc6b0
Notes

Untroubled Syrup Teal (#3BC6B0) is a true teal with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (171°, 55%, 50%) 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
#3bc6b0
RGB
rgb(59, 198, 176)
HSL
hsl(171, 55%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(171 23% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.8% 0.121 179.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4048 0.7658 0.6922)
HSV
hsv(171, 70%, 78%)
LAB
lab(72.53% -41.80 0.34)
LCH
lch(72.53% 41.80 179.53)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 0%, 11%, 22%)

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.

Syrup
modifier

Arabic sharāb, thick-sweet-drink. As a color modifier, syrup implies a thick-and-amber-and-pourable-sweet quality, the visual register of Vermont-maple-and-Levantine-rose-syrup hand-thick-and-amber-and-pourable-sweet Vermont-maple-and-Levantine-rose-syrup-and-French-grenadine syrup-and-thick-and-amber surfaces under Vermont-maple-and-Levantine-rose-syrup-and-French-grenadine Vermont-sugar-shack-and-Damascus-souk amber-pourable-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to malt and zest 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.

#3bc6b0
Original
#bebaaf
Protanopia
#aaacb2
Deuteranopia
#00c9bf
Tritanopia
#a7a7a7
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
2.12:1
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
9.89:1

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
##3BC6B0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4048 0.7658 0.6922)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.121

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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