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Resolute Grace Forest

#175d03
Notes

Resolute Grace Forest (#175D03) is a deep green 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 (107°, 94%, 19%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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.

HEX
#175d03
RGB
rgb(23, 93, 3)
HSL
hsl(107, 94%, 19%)
HWB
hwb(107 1% 64%)
OKLCH
oklch(41.9% 0.134 140.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.1773 0.3593 0.0925)
HSV
hsv(107, 97%, 36%)
LAB
lab(34.02% -37.66 39.30)
LCH
lch(34.02% 54.43 133.78)
CMYK
cmyk(75%, 0%, 97%, 64%)

Etymology

Resolute
adjective

From the Latin resolutus, unwavering — used as a color modifier in literary contexts for hues that read as committed and unmoving. Resolute blue, resolute green: the saturation is full, the hue holds its position without shifting under different light. Sits in the bold-bucket center alongside strong and true, with slightly more focus on stability than presence.

Grace
modifier

Latin gratia, favor-or-thankfulness. As a color modifier, grace implies a flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed quality, the visual register of Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-grace hand-flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-and-Renaissance-classical graced-and-flowing-and-elegant-and-blessed surfaces under Botticelli-Three-Graces-and-Apollonian-and-Renaissance-classical chiton-and-laurel-wreath-and-fountain Florentine-pavilion-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to charm and bliss in usage.

Forest
noun

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.

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.

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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.

#175d03
Original
#605300
Protanopia
#584e11
Deuteranopia
#075a4e
Tritanopia
#484848
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
8.07:1
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
2.60:1

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
##175D03
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.1773 0.3593 0.0925)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.134

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.

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