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Glowy Türkis

#65de98
Notes

Glowy Türkis (#65DE98) 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 (145°, 65%, 63%) 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
#65de98
RGB
rgb(101, 222, 152)
HSL
hsl(145, 65%, 63%)
HWB
hwb(145 40% 13%)
OKLCH
oklch(81.3% 0.149 155.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5238 0.8600 0.6189)
HSV
hsv(145, 55%, 87%)
LAB
lab(80.33% -49.64 24.30)
LCH
lch(80.33% 55.27 153.92)
CMYK
cmyk(55%, 0%, 32%, 13%)

Etymology

Glowy
adjective

Old English glōwan, to glow — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, glowy implies a saturated-and-soft-emitting-and-warm quality, the bright color of fireside-and-candle-lit interior atmospheric-warmth surface emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to glowing and luminous in usage.

Türkis
noun

The German word for turquoise — borrowed via medieval Italian turchese (Turkish stone). Used in German jewelry vocabulary for the saturated blue-green of Iranian and American Southwest turquoise. The color refers to a Sleeping Beauty türkis cabochon: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green. The Germanic cousin of turquoise.

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.

#65de98
Original
#ddce94
Protanopia
#ccc29c
Deuteranopia
#40dccc
Tritanopia
#bfbfbf
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
1.69:1
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
12.46:1

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
##65DE98
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5238 0.8600 0.6189)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.149

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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