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Peaceful Juniper

#19641f
Notes

Peaceful Juniper (#19641F) 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 (125°, 60%, 25%) 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.

HEX
#19641f
RGB
rgb(25, 100, 31)
HSL
hsl(125, 60%, 25%)
HWB
hwb(125 10% 61%)
OKLCH
oklch(44.3% 0.126 144.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.1918 0.3864 0.1595)
HSV
hsv(125, 75%, 39%)
LAB
lab(36.78% -37.62 31.69)
LCH
lch(36.78% 49.19 139.90)
CMYK
cmyk(75%, 0%, 69%, 61%)

Etymology

Peaceful
adjective

Latin pāx, peace — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, peaceful implies a clear-and-restful-and-calm quality where the hue carries the visual register of Quaker-meeting-house still-and-meditative interior atmosphere. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Juniper
noun

The genus Juniperus, evergreen shrubs and trees whose fleshy berries — actually fleshy cones — flavor gin and Scandinavian sauerkraut. The color refers to the foliage of a mature juniper: a deep, slightly muted green with the matte finish of scale leaves and resinous waxes. Drabber than spruce, warmer than fir, with the alpine association of a plant that can grow at higher elevation than almost any other tree.

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.

#19641f
Original
#665a16
Protanopia
#5d5425
Deuteranopia
#006156
Tritanopia
#4f4f4f
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
7.28:1
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
2.88:1

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
##19641F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.1918 0.3864 0.1595)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.126

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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