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Jazzed Niche Peridot

#51e79f
Notes

Jazzed Niche Peridot (#51E79F) is a true teal with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (151°, 76%, 61%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#51e79f
RGB
rgb(81, 231, 159)
HSL
hsl(151, 76%, 61%)
HWB
hwb(151 32% 9%)
OKLCH
oklch(83.1% 0.164 158.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4951 0.8939 0.6460)
HSV
hsv(151, 65%, 91%)
LAB
lab(82.59% -55.91 23.67)
LCH
lch(82.59% 60.71 157.05)
CMYK
cmyk(65%, 0%, 31%, 9%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Niche
modifier

Italian nicchia, recess. As a color modifier, niche implies a wall-recess-for-statue-or-icon quality, the visual register of Roman-Catholic-and-Renaissance-niche hand-cut wall-recess-and-shell-shaped niche-for-statue-or-icon architectural surfaces under candle-and-niche-statue-and-icon devotional light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to alcove and atrium in usage.

Peridot
noun

The transparent green variety of olivine — the gem mined from Egyptian Zabargad Island since pharaonic times and now from arid mountain ranges in Pakistan, Arizona, and Vietnam. The color refers to a faceted peridot: a clean, slightly yellow-shifted green with the gem's signature internal warmth. Lighter than emerald, brighter than olivine in its rough state, with the unusual gem-trade quality of being one of the few minerals that occurs in only one color.

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.

#51e79f
Original
#e5d69b
Protanopia
#d1c8a4
Deuteranopia
#00e6d4
Tritanopia
#c2c2c2
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
1.58:1
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
13.28:1

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
##51E79F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4951 0.8939 0.6460)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.164

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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