Tide Pool
PlayfulKids' beach apps and summer event pages where the colours should feel like shallow water.
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Do not use this for
Body text and data: every step is too light and too close to carry a sentence.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 13
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 1.89:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 20 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 2.1
- worst under protanopia
These two are one colour to a reader with protanopia. Fine while the set is read as an order; never use them to mean two different things without a label or an icon as well.
A suggested mapping · derived, then measured
Five colours are not an interface, so this is an offer rather than a token set. It does not clear WCAG AA on body text and secondary text and the accent — stated here rather than left for you to discover.
/* Tide Pool — Kids' beach apps and summer event pages where the colours should feel like shallow water. */
:root {
--palette-1: #029393;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Tide Pool
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Tide Pool palette: #029393, #089EC7, #54A0FE, #A6A1FF, #E19FFF. It is for this: Kids' beach apps and summer event pages where the colours should feel like shallow water.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — spread from hue 195 — and the five colours are derived from it in OKLCH, where a step of lightness is a step your eye agrees with rather than one the hex numbers agree with. That is why the numbers above are properties of this palette rather than claims about it.