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Even Echeveria

#45bf94
Notes

Even Echeveria (#45BF94) 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 (159°, 49%, 51%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#45bf94
RGB
rgb(69, 191, 148)
HSL
hsl(159, 49%, 51%)
HWB
hwb(159 27% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.5% 0.126 166.0)
HSV
hsv(159, 64%, 75%)
LAB
lab(69.94% -44.08 11.87)
LCH
lch(69.94% 45.65 164.93)
CMYK
cmyk(64%, 0%, 23%, 25%)

Etymology

Even
adjective

Old English efen, flat, equal — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as uniformly distributed across a surface. Even gray, even tan: the implication is moderate saturation combined with optical uniformity. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside steady and balanced.

Echeveria
noun

The genus Echeveria — Mexican rosette-forming succulents named for the eighteenth-century botanical illustrator Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. Cultivated globally as ornamental plants for their geometric blue-green form. The color refers to a fresh Echeveria elegans rosette: a soft, slightly cool silver-green-blue with the matte velvet finish of waxy succulent leaves.

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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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.

#45bf94
Original
#bbb292
Protanopia
#aaa697
Deuteranopia
#00bfb3
Tritanopia
#a2a2a2
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
2.30:1
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
9.13:1

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