Crafted Beluga
Crafted Beluga (#ACC0BE) 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 (174°, 14%, 71%) places it in the muted 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.
Etymology
Old English cræft, strength / skill — past-participle of craft. As a color modifier, crafted implies a neutral-and-hand-built-and-skilled quality, the neutral color of American-Craftsman-and-Arts-and-Crafts hand-built-and-quality-craft furniture-and-textile-and-pottery surface-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-traditional end of the grid, parallel to handcrafted and artisanal in usage.
Arctic Delphinapterus leucas — a Monodontidae small toothed-whale of the Arctic-and-Subarctic coastal-and-pack-ice habitats, with iconic pure-white adult-skin coloration. Beluga color refers to a Delphinapterus leucas adult dorsal-skin in raking summer-light: a pale cool gray with the matte finish of pure-white melanin-depleted toothed-whale skin with the characteristic beluga fluid-dynamic streamlined body-profile.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
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.