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Warm Creek

#b6f4ba
Notes

Warm Creek (#B6F4BA) 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 (124°, 74%, 84%) 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
#b6f4ba
RGB
rgb(182, 244, 186)
HSL
hsl(124, 74%, 84%)
HWB
hwb(124 71% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(91.0% 0.100 146.3)
HSV
hsv(124, 25%, 96%)
LAB
lab(90.87% -30.52 21.80)
LCH
lch(90.87% 37.51 144.46)
CMYK
cmyk(25%, 0%, 24%, 4%)

Etymology

Warm
adjective

Old English wearm, of moderate heat — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as containing red, orange, or yellow undertones. Warm gray, warm white: not necessarily a temperature, but the optical impression of a slight red-orange shift. Sits across the crisp and neutral buckets.

Creek
noun

A small flowing waterway — slightly larger than a brook in American usage, slightly smaller in British. Creek color refers to a typical American Appalachian creek in summer: a soft, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical clarity of slow-flowing forest stream.

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.

#b6f4ba
Original
#f6e9b7
Protanopia
#ece2bd
Deuteranopia
#aff1e4
Tritanopia
#e3e3e3
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
16.64:1

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