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Disciplined Seychelles

#a6f7c0
Notes

Disciplined Seychelles (#A6F7C0) is a soft green with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (139°, 84%, 81%) 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
#a6f7c0
RGB
rgb(166, 247, 192)
HSL
hsl(139, 84%, 81%)
HWB
hwb(139 65% 3%)
OKLCH
oklch(90.9% 0.110 154.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7212 0.9602 0.7697)
HSV
hsv(139, 33%, 97%)
LAB
lab(90.98% -35.80 18.75)
LCH
lch(90.98% 40.41 152.36)
CMYK
cmyk(33%, 0%, 22%, 3%)

Etymology

Disciplined
adjective

Latin disciplīna, teaching / training — past-participle of discipline. As a color modifier, disciplined implies a clear-and-controlled-and-careful quality where the hue carries the visual register of careful-edited-and-restrained design-decision. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and orderly 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.

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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.

#a6f7c0
Original
#f7ebbd
Protanopia
#eae2c3
Deuteranopia
#98f5e8
Tritanopia
#e2e2e2
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
1.26:1
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
16.69:1

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
##A6F7C0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7212 0.9602 0.7697)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.110

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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