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Easy Corsica

#6bb0a5
Notes

Easy Corsica (#6BB0A5) 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 (170°, 30%, 55%) 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#6bb0a5
RGB
rgb(107, 176, 165)
HSL
hsl(170, 30%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(170 42% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(70.8% 0.072 182.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4823 0.6833 0.6473)
HSV
hsv(170, 39%, 69%)
LAB
lab(67.20% -24.42 -1.24)
LCH
lch(67.20% 24.45 182.90)
CMYK
cmyk(39%, 0%, 6%, 31%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Corsica
noun

The French Mediterranean island — and the saturated blue-green of Corsican calanques (rocky coves) at Calanche de Piana and Bonifacio. Corsica refers to a Bonifacio cove at midday: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical clarity of cold Tyrrhenian Sea water.

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.

#6bb0a5
Original
#aaa9a5
Protanopia
#9ea0a6
Deuteranopia
#52b3ac
Tritanopia
#a1a1a1
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
2.51:1
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
8.38:1

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
##6BB0A5
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4823 0.6833 0.6473)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.072

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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