Hidden Sea Glass

#6fd1c9

A paler, calm teal for airy sections

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About Hidden Sea Glass

Hidden Sea Glass sits lighter than everything around it, it's the teal that actually looks like it's been weathered by real water instead of mixed in a lab. It's desaturated enough to feel approachable, but it doesn't fade into gray the way does. There's still color here. It just knows when to step back.

Reach for this in health dashboards, fintech interfaces, and product design systems where you need a secondary surface that reads calm without looking tired. Background fills on cards, subtle section dividers, secondary button states, anything that should feel present but not insistent. It pairs cleaner with mid-tone backgrounds than the more saturated teals do, and it won't shift cool the way purer cyans can on certain displays. Unlike Hammam Blue's warmer lean or 's punch, this one leans cooler and quieter.

Test it early against actual dark text and your real background colors. On very light surfaces it can feel thin, but on anything mid-tone or darker it holds solid and readable without needing perfect contrast to work.

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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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1.80:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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1.65:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

Aa
9.82:1AAA

On Black #000000

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11.64:1AAA

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