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Salubrious Pimento Mint

#61eed8
Notes

Salubrious Pimento Mint (#61EED8) 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 (171°, 81%, 66%) 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
#61eed8
RGB
rgb(97, 238, 216)
HSL
hsl(171, 81%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(171 38% 7%)
OKLCH
oklch(86.6% 0.126 181.2)
HSV
hsv(171, 59%, 93%)
LAB
lab(86.33% -43.19 -0.73)
LCH
lch(86.33% 43.19 180.97)
CMYK
cmyk(59%, 0%, 9%, 7%)

Etymology

Salubrious
adjective

Latin salūbris, healthful — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, salubrious implies a clear-and-healthful-and-fresh quality, the crisp color of Alpine-and-Sea-air health-resort and Mediterranean-coast spa-and-thalassotherapy outdoor environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to healthful and bracing in usage.

Pimento
modifier

Spanish pimiento, sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum. As a color modifier, pimento implies a sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum-and-allspice-berry quality, the visual register of Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento hand-sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum-and-allspice-berry Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento-and-allspice-berry pimento-and-sweet-red-Iberian-capsicum surfaces under Spanish-and-Jamaican-pimento-and-allspice-berry Iberian-and-Jamaican-Blue-Mountain Iberian-and-Jamaican-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to chili and pepper in usage.

Mint
noun

The genus Mentha — peppermint, spearmint, apple mint, water mint — the cooling herb whose menthol gives it that quality at the molecular level. The color refers to fresh peppermint leaves before drying: a clean, slightly cool green with the matte finish of trichome-rich leaf surface. Lighter than basil, cooler than parsley, with the mojito-and-Pimm's association of a herb tied to summer drinks across two continents.

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.

#61eed8
Original
#e4e1d7
Protanopia
#cfd1da
Deuteranopia
#00f2e7
Tritanopia
#cecece
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
1.43:1
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
14.73:1

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