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Flat Grove

#235919
Notes

Flat Grove (#235919) 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 (111°, 56%, 22%) 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
#235919
RGB
rgb(35, 89, 25)
HSL
hsl(111, 56%, 22%)
HWB
hwb(111 10% 65%)
OKLCH
oklch(41.3% 0.111 140.7)
HSV
hsv(111, 72%, 35%)
LAB
lab(33.07% -31.45 30.58)
LCH
lch(33.07% 43.86 135.80)
CMYK
cmyk(61%, 0%, 72%, 65%)

Etymology

Flat
adjective

Old Norse flatr, flat / level. As a color modifier, flat implies a clear-and-evenly-spread quality where the hue carries the matte-finish visual register of unmodulated single-plane surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to level and even in usage.

Grove
noun

A small group of trees — often a deliberately planted cluster of Olea, Citrus, or Quercus in Mediterranean cultural landscape. Grove color refers to a Provençal olive grove canopy: a soft, slightly muted gray-green with the matte finish of mature olive foliage.

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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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.

#235919
Original
#5b5110
Protanopia
#554c1f
Deuteranopia
#1c564c
Tritanopia
#494949
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
8.35:1
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
2.51:1

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