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Eric Cartman's Beanie

From South Park · 1997

#5bafceteal-cyan

H196° S56% B81%R91 G175 B206

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Color anatomy

Shades — darker

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South Park debuted in 1997 and introduced Eric Cartman to audiences with a distinctive visual identity. The character's color scheme was designed for maximum readability in fast-paced animated sequences.

The beanie color #5bafce is a teal-cyan that's moderately saturated and bright and airy. At H196° S56% B81%, it occupies a specific sweet spot in the HSB space — authoritative and calm.

Eric Cartman's beanie is a color players think they know cold — until they have to dial it in from scratch. The most common mistake is undersaturating (going too gray) and pushing the brightness too high toward white.

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Calibrated to this character's specific hex, not generic color advice.

1Hue: Lock in around 196° — squarely in the blue range (210°–270°). Don't drift more than 10° from the target.

2Saturation: Target 56%. This is moderate saturation. Going too intense (above 80%) makes it look artificial; going too gray (below 25%) loses the character's identity.

3Brightness should stay in the mid-to-upper range (55–85%). Too low and you lose the character's warmth; too high and it washes out toward white.

4Common mistake: Players tend to push brightness to 100% thinking "lighter = closer." But the real color has intentional headroom — leave 10–15% of brightness on the table.