Glassmith

#46b5c0

Softer teal-blue for calm sections and UI baselines

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About Glassmith

Glassmith reads as the settled, almost-there version of cyan. It's warmer and noticeably more desaturated than 's electric commitment, but it doesn't drift into green the way some of its neighbors do. There's restraint here, the kind that actually works harder than it looks because you're not fighting the color to make it behave.

Reach for this in health platforms, productivity apps, and SaaS interfaces where you need a secondary blue that feels grounded instead of neon. Works well as button backgrounds, hover states, accent borders, even as a soft container color in light-themed layouts. It pairs naturally with dark text and mid-tone grays without that cyan flicker some brighter blues bring. Unlike High Dive's approachable warmth or 's cooler reserve, Glassmith sits somewhere between functional and human-scaled, present without demanding attention.

On warm displays it'll hold steady. On cooler monitors it might shift slightly cooler, but it won't suddenly read like pure cyan the way will. Test it early against your actual working grays, especially if you're using it for interactive states where consistency matters.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

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2.43:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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2.23:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

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7.28:1AAA

On Black #000000

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8.63:1AAA

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