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Reposeful Boba

#93f3b6
Notes

Reposeful Boba (#93F3B6) 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 (142°, 80%, 76%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#93f3b6
RGB
rgb(147, 243, 182)
HSL
hsl(142, 80%, 76%)
HWB
hwb(142 58% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.9% 0.125 155.0)
HSV
hsv(142, 40%, 95%)
LAB
lab(88.77% -41.29 20.68)
LCH
lch(88.77% 46.18 153.39)
CMYK
cmyk(40%, 0%, 25%, 5%)

Etymology

Reposeful
adjective

Latin repōnere, to put back — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, reposeful implies a clear-and-restful-and-still quality, the calm color of pre-modern monastic cloister-and-refectory meditative-and-silent interior architecture. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to peaceful and placid in usage.

Boba
noun

The Taiwanese bubble tea — black tea or matcha with chewy tapioca pearls — popularized worldwide since the 1980s. Boba in matcha-flavored form refers to a shaken matcha boba: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the satin finish of milky matcha liquor through the clear cup.

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.

#93f3b6
Original
#f2e5b2
Protanopia
#e3dbba
Deuteranopia
#7ff1e2
Tritanopia
#dadada
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
1.33:1
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
15.74:1

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