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Spirited Seychelles

#68e9bb
Notes

Spirited Seychelles (#68E9BB) 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 (159°, 75%, 66%) 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
#68e9bb
RGB
rgb(104, 233, 187)
HSL
hsl(159, 75%, 66%)
HWB
hwb(159 41% 9%)
OKLCH
oklch(84.9% 0.133 167.0)
HSV
hsv(159, 55%, 91%)
LAB
lab(84.38% -46.44 11.69)
LCH
lch(84.38% 47.89 165.87)
CMYK
cmyk(55%, 0%, 20%, 9%)

Etymology

Spirited
adjective

An adjectival form of spirit — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as animate and characterful. Spirited orange, spirited green: the implication is saturation combined with personality, a color that feels like it has agency. Sits at the bright-bucket center alongside lively and vibrant.

Seychelles
noun

The Indian Ocean granite-island archipelago — and the saturated turquoise of Seychellois lagoons at Anse Source d'Argent on La Digue. Seychelles refers to the granite-and-water boundary at Anse Source d'Argent: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical complexity of shallow water over weathered granite.

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.

#68e9bb
Original
#e4dbb9
Protanopia
#d1cdbe
Deuteranopia
#29eadc
Tritanopia
#cacaca
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
1.50:1
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
13.96:1

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