Fine Persian
Fine Persian (#D5FDED) is a soft teal with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (156°, 91%, 91%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
Old French fin, fine / refined — sharing root with Latin fīnis (end). As a color modifier, fine implies a pale-and-precisely-detailed-and-refined quality where the hue carries the visual register of Sèvres-and-Meissen fine-bone-china porcelain finely-detailed surface. Sits at the pale-and-delicate end of the grid, parallel to delicate and filigree in usage.
The blue-green of glazed Persian tile and ceramic — the firuze (turquoise) palette that frames Iranian architecture from Isfahan's Shah Mosque to the courtyard fountains of Yazd. The color refers to a polished Persian-tile color sample: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the high shine of fired glaze. Cooler than turquoise, warmer than cerulean, with the Islamic-architectural weight of a thousand-year tile tradition.
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.