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Caffeinated Bottle

#4bf4d0
Notes

Caffeinated Bottle (#4BF4D0) is a true teal 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 (167°, 88%, 63%) 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
#4bf4d0
RGB
rgb(75, 244, 208)
HSL
hsl(167, 88%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(167 29% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(87.3% 0.146 175.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5048 0.9438 0.8216)
HSV
hsv(167, 69%, 96%)
LAB
lab(87.36% -51.17 4.89)
LCH
lch(87.36% 51.40 174.54)
CMYK
cmyk(69%, 0%, 15%, 4%)

Etymology

Caffeinated
adjective

Modern French caféine — past-participle of caffeinate. As a color modifier, caffeinated implies a saturated-and-jumpy-and-active quality, the bright color of Red-Bull-and-Monster energy-drink-can label-design saturated-and-energizing palette. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to jazzed and wired in usage.

Bottle
noun

The traditional dark green of European wine and beer bottles — produced by adding iron oxide to the glass batch to filter UV that would damage the contents. The color refers to a Riesling or Burgundy bottle held against the light: a deep, slightly blue-shifted green with the optical translucency of glass. Darker than spruce, cooler than forest, with the cellar weight of a color that's been protecting wine since the seventeenth century.

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.

#4bf4d0
Original
#ebe5ce
Protanopia
#d4d4d3
Deuteranopia
#00f7e9
Tritanopia
#cdcdcd
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
1.39:1
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
15.15:1

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
##4BF4D0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5048 0.9438 0.8216)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.146

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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