Pool Noodle
PlayfulSummer event pages and kids' play apps that should feel like a pool afternoon.
Click a swatch to copy its hex.
Do not use this for
Text-heavy screens. Every step is too light to carry body copy.
What was measured
- Closest neighbours
- ΔE00 10.1
- how alike two adjacent swatches look
- Darkest to lightest
- 1.3:1
- WCAG contrast across the set
- Lightness covered
- 10 pts
- of OKLCH lightness, 0–100
- Under colour blindness
- ΔE00 0.7
- 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.
/* Pool Noodle — Summer event pages and kids' play apps that should feel like a pool afternoon. */
:root {
--palette-1: #3fd7ad;Tailwind
// tailwind.config — Pool Noodle
export default {
theme: {For your coding agent · printed from the colours
Use the Pool Noodle palette: #3FD7AD, #08DDE2, #77D9FF, #B3D6FF, #D3D8FF. It is for this: Summer event pages and kids' play apps that should feel like a pool afternoon.
How this palette was built · no hex was chosen by hand
The catalog states a recipe — spread from hue 170 — 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.