Cellared Cucumber
Cellared Cucumber (#144E15) is a deep green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (121°, 59%, 19%) 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin cellārium, storehouse — past-participle of cellar. As a color modifier, cellared implies the deep-and-cool-and-architectural quality of Bordeaux-and-Burgundy wine-cellar underground stone-and-oak storage-chamber, with the patina of multi-decade barrel-aging-and-bottle-laying. Sits at the deep-and-architectural end of the grid, parallel to crypted with viticulture register.
Cucumis sativus, the climbing cucurbit domesticated in northern India and now grown across every continent. The color refers to the skin of a fresh field cucumber: a saturated, slightly muted green with the polished surface of unwaxed fruit, deeper at the rind and lighter at the seedy core. Brighter than pickle, cooler than pear, with the high water content that makes the word a synonym for cool composure.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.