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Tinted Beryl

#92bbb3
Notes

Tinted Beryl (#92BBB3) 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 (168°, 23%, 65%) 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#92bbb3
RGB
rgb(146, 187, 179)
HSL
hsl(168, 23%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(168 57% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.0% 0.045 181.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6052 0.7287 0.7023)
HSV
hsv(168, 22%, 73%)
LAB
lab(72.83% -15.32 -0.44)
LCH
lch(72.83% 15.33 181.65)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 4%, 27%)

Etymology

Tinted
adjective

Latin tīnctus, dyed — past-participle of tint. As a color modifier, tinted implies a pale-and-faintly-colored quality where the hue carries the visual register of base-white-or-neutral lightly-mixed-with-pigment surface. Sits at the pale-and-faintly-colored end of the grid, parallel to tinged and pastel in usage.

Beryl
noun

The mineral Be₃Al₂(SiO₃)₆ — the gem family that includes emerald (chromium-tinted), aquamarine (iron-tinted), and morganite (manganese-tinted). The color beryl refers to the transparent yellow-green variety heliodor or pale common beryl: a soft, slightly muted yellow-green with the high refractive index of a faceted gem. Cleaner than sage, lighter than emerald, with the gem-trade specificity of a single mineral name.

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.

#92bbb3
Original
#b7b6b3
Protanopia
#afb0b4
Deuteranopia
#87bdb8
Tritanopia
#b2b2b2
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
2.10:1
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
9.98:1

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
##92BBB3
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6052 0.7287 0.7023)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.045

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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