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Reposeful Edamame

#baea92
Notes

Reposeful Edamame (#BAEA92) is a soft lime 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 (93°, 68%, 75%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#baea92
RGB
rgb(186, 234, 146)
HSL
hsl(93, 68%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(93 57% 8%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.3% 0.125 131.8)
HSV
hsv(93, 38%, 92%)
LAB
lab(87.66% -30.50 37.82)
LCH
lch(87.66% 48.59 128.89)
CMYK
cmyk(21%, 0%, 38%, 8%)

Etymology

Reposeful
adjective

Latin repōnere, to put back — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, reposeful implies a clear-and-restful-and-still quality, the calm color of pre-modern monastic cloister-and-refectory meditative-and-silent interior architecture. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to peaceful and placid in usage.

Edamame
noun

The Japanese name for fresh young soybeans (Glycine max) — boiled in salted water and served as a popular Japanese pub appetizer. The color refers to fresh-boiled edamame pods: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the satin finish of cooked legume pod.

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.

#baea92
Original
#f1de8c
Protanopia
#eada97
Deuteranopia
#bce3d4
Tritanopia
#d9d9d9
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
1.38:1
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
15.27:1

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