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Untroubled Seychelles

#7fa388
Notes

Untroubled Seychelles (#7FA388) is a true green 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 (135°, 16%, 57%) places it in the muted 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
#7fa388
RGB
rgb(127, 163, 136)
HSL
hsl(135, 16%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(135 50% 36%)
OKLCH
oklch(68.1% 0.056 152.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5267 0.6352 0.5413)
HSV
hsv(135, 22%, 64%)
LAB
lab(63.74% -17.92 10.04)
LCH
lch(63.74% 20.54 150.74)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 17%, 36%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

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.

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.

#7fa388
Original
#a39d87
Protanopia
#9d9989
Deuteranopia
#7aa29b
Tritanopia
#999999
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
2.80:1
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
7.50:1

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
##7FA388
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5267 0.6352 0.5413)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.056

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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