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Reliable Conure

#b6eaac
Notes

Reliable Conure (#B6EAAC) 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 (110°, 60%, 80%) places it in the balanced 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b6eaac
RGB
rgb(182, 234, 172)
HSL
hsl(110, 60%, 80%)
HWB
hwb(110 67% 8%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.5% 0.099 140.5)
HSV
hsv(110, 26%, 92%)
LAB
lab(87.86% -28.10 24.85)
LCH
lch(87.86% 37.51 138.51)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 26%, 8%)

Etymology

Reliable
adjective

Latin re-ligāre, to bind back — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, reliable implies a clear-and-trustworthy-and-consistent quality where the hue carries the visual register of dependable-and-consistent design-element. Sits at the crisp-and-honest end of the grid, parallel to dependable and trustworthy in usage.

Conure
noun

The genus Pyrrhura and related green parrots of the South American mainland — popular pet birds with predominantly green plumage. Conure color refers to the green back of a green-cheeked conure (P. molinae): a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the matte finish of carotenoid-and-structural feather color.

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.

#b6eaac
Original
#eedfa8
Protanopia
#e5daaf
Deuteranopia
#b3e6d9
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
1.37:1
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
15.35:1

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