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Drawn Echeveria

#7dfbe5
Notes

Drawn Echeveria (#7DFBE5) is a soft 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°, 94%, 74%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light 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
#7dfbe5
RGB
rgb(125, 251, 229)
HSL
hsl(170, 94%, 74%)
HWB
hwb(170 49% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(91.0% 0.118 180.6)
HSV
hsv(170, 50%, 98%)
LAB
lab(91.24% -40.36 -0.24)
LCH
lch(91.24% 40.36 180.34)
CMYK
cmyk(50%, 0%, 9%, 2%)

Etymology

Drawn
adjective

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Echeveria
noun

The genus Echeveria — Mexican rosette-forming succulents named for the eighteenth-century botanical illustrator Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. Cultivated globally as ornamental plants for their geometric blue-green form. The color refers to a fresh Echeveria elegans rosette: a soft, slightly cool silver-green-blue with the matte velvet finish of waxy succulent leaves.

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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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.

#7dfbe5
Original
#f2efe4
Protanopia
#dee0e7
Deuteranopia
#3bfff4
Tritanopia
#dfdfdf
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
1.25:1
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
16.80:1

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