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Chivalrous Glade

#237f31
Notes

Chivalrous Glade (#237F31) 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 (129°, 57%, 32%) 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
#237f31
RGB
rgb(35, 127, 49)
HSL
hsl(129, 57%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(129 14% 50%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.6% 0.143 145.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2516 0.4909 0.2311)
HSV
hsv(129, 72%, 50%)
LAB
lab(46.65% -43.55 34.18)
LCH
lch(46.65% 55.36 141.88)
CMYK
cmyk(72%, 0%, 61%, 50%)

Etymology

Chivalrous
adjective

Old French chevaleros, knightly — adjectival suffix -ous, derived from cheval (horse). As a color modifier, chivalrous implies a saturated-and-knightly-and-gallant quality, the deep-rich color of medieval-Romance chanson-de-geste hero-and-troubadour song tradition. Sits at the bold-and-chivalrous end of the grid, parallel to gallant and knightly.

Glade
noun

An open clearing in a forest — often grassy, where sunlight reaches the ground unobstructed. The Old English glæd (bright) names the brightness of the clearing relative to its surrounding shade. Glade color refers to a sunlit forest clearing in summer: a saturated, slightly yellow-green with the matte finish of sun-bright grass-and-fern. Lighter than bosco.

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.

#237f31
Original
#817329
Protanopia
#766c37
Deuteranopia
#007c6e
Tritanopia
#666666
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).
AAon White
5.06:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
4.15:1

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
##237F31
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2516 0.4909 0.2311)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.143

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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