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Stormy Artemisia

#0b483f
Notes

Stormy Artemisia (#0B483F) is a deep teal with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (171°, 73%, 16%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#0b483f
RGB
rgb(11, 72, 63)
HSL
hsl(171, 73%, 16%)
HWB
hwb(171 4% 72%)
OKLCH
oklch(36.2% 0.061 180.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.1245 0.2779 0.2478)
HSV
hsv(171, 85%, 28%)
LAB
lab(26.92% -21.02 0.05)
LCH
lch(26.92% 21.02 179.86)
CMYK
cmyk(85%, 0%, 12%, 72%)

Etymology

Stormy
adjective

Old English storm, storm — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, stormy implies a deep-and-turbulent-and-cool-shifted quality, the dark cool-gray of Force-9-gale atmospheric-turbulence sky. Sits at the deep-and-turbulent end of the grid, parallel to thunderous and tempestuous in atmospheric register.

Artemisia
noun

The genus Artemisia — sage-and-wormwood-and-mugwort relatives whose silver-green leaves define Mediterranean dry-garden landscaping. The color refers to a fresh Artemisia ludoviciana cultivated in a Provençal garden: a soft, slightly cool gray-green with the matte velvet finish of pubescent silver leaf.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#0b483f
Original
#44433f
Protanopia
#3c3d40
Deuteranopia
#004945
Tritanopia
#3a3a3a
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon White
10.43:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.01:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##0B483F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.1245 0.2779 0.2478)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.061

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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