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Tucked Cumin Robin

#8de0d4
Notes

Tucked Cumin Robin (#8DE0D4) 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 (171°, 57%, 72%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#8de0d4
RGB
rgb(141, 224, 212)
HSL
hsl(171, 57%, 72%)
HWB
hwb(171 55% 12%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.0% 0.083 184.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6273 0.8701 0.8312)
HSV
hsv(171, 37%, 88%)
LAB
lab(83.82% -27.94 -2.11)
LCH
lch(83.82% 28.02 184.31)
CMYK
cmyk(37%, 0%, 5%, 12%)

Etymology

Tucked
adjective

Old English tūcian, to torment / pull — past-participle of tuck. As a color modifier, tucked implies a clear-and-fitted-and-arranged quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-tucked-and-neatly-fitted shirt-into-trouser dress-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Cumin
modifier

Greek κύμινον, aromatic-Levantine-seed. As a color modifier, cumin implies a warm-Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal quality, the visual register of Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin hand-warm-Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin-and-Aleppo-and-Marrakesh cumin-and-warm-Levantine surfaces under Levantine-and-North-African-and-Mughal-cumin-and-Aleppo-and-Marrakesh Aleppo-and-Marrakesh-and-Lahore Levantine-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to caraway and pepper in usage.

Robin
noun

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) — though the color refers not to the bird's red breast but to the egg, robin's-egg blue, a pale slightly green-shifted blue produced by biliverdin pigment in the eggshell. The color is the inside surface of a fresh robin's nest at peak laying: a soft, slightly green-shifted pale blue with the matte finish of avian eggshell. Lighter than aqua, cooler than 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.

#8de0d4
Original
#d9d7d4
Protanopia
#caccd5
Deuteranopia
#6fe3dc
Tritanopia
#cdcdcd
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
1.53:1
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
13.75:1

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
##8DE0D4
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6273 0.8701 0.8312)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.083

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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