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Easy Caspian

#91dba6
Notes

Easy Caspian (#91DBA6) is a soft 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 (137°, 51%, 71%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#91dba6
RGB
rgb(145, 219, 166)
HSL
hsl(137, 51%, 71%)
HWB
hwb(137 57% 14%)
OKLCH
oklch(82.9% 0.105 152.6)
HSV
hsv(137, 34%, 86%)
LAB
lab(81.53% -33.92 18.93)
LCH
lch(81.53% 38.84 150.84)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 0%, 24%, 14%)

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.

Caspian
noun

The world's largest inland body of water — between Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan. Caspian color refers to mid-depth Caspian Sea water: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical complexity of slightly brackish water over silt-rich bottom.

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.

#91dba6
Original
#dbcfa3
Protanopia
#cfc7a9
Deuteranopia
#85d9cc
Tritanopia
#c7c7c7
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
1.63:1
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
12.89:1

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