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Clear Fenugreek

#63c69c
Notes

Clear Fenugreek (#63C69C) 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 (155°, 46%, 58%) 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
#63c69c
RGB
rgb(99, 198, 156)
HSL
hsl(155, 46%, 58%)
HWB
hwb(155 39% 22%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.5% 0.113 163.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4878 0.7674 0.6227)
HSV
hsv(155, 50%, 78%)
LAB
lab(73.18% -38.98 12.25)
LCH
lch(73.18% 40.86 162.55)
CMYK
cmyk(50%, 0%, 21%, 22%)

Etymology

Clear
adjective

From the Latin clarus, bright, distinct — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues without haze or mixing. Clear blue sky, clear green water: the implication is moderate saturation combined with optical clarity. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside clean and true.

Fenugreek
noun

Trigonella foenum-graecum, the Mediterranean and South Asian legume whose seeds are essential to Indian and Ethiopian cooking. The color refers to fresh fenugreek leaves (called methi in Hindi): a soft, slightly cool deep yellow-green-blue with the matte finish of pinnate trifoliate leaf.

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.

#63c69c
Original
#c3ba9a
Protanopia
#b4af9f
Deuteranopia
#42c6ba
Tritanopia
#aeaeae
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
2.08:1
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
10.09:1

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
##63C69C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4878 0.7674 0.6227)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.113

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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