Genial Platinum
Genial Platinum (#B4C8C0) 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 (156°, 15%, 75%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin geniālis, of-the-Genius / festive — adjectival suffix -al, sharing root with genus (kind). As a color modifier, genial implies a neutral-and-warm-and-friendly quality, the neutral color of Edwardian-and-American-Country warm-and-genial-host interior-decoration-and-textile coordinated-color tone. Sits at the neutral-and-friendly end of the grid, parallel to cordial and amiable in usage.
Element Pt, atomic number 78 — the densest precious metal, used for catalytic converters, scientific apparatus, and the highest-end jewelry. The color refers to polished platinum jewelry: a soft, slightly cool bright silver with the slightly grayer cast that distinguishes it from the warmer brilliance of silver. Cooler than silver, warmer than ice.
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.