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Eclipsed Amazon

#2a4e2b
Notes

Eclipsed Amazon (#2A4E2B) is a deep green with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (122°, 30%, 24%) 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
#2a4e2b
RGB
rgb(42, 78, 43)
HSL
hsl(122, 30%, 24%)
HWB
hwb(122 16% 69%)
OKLCH
oklch(38.7% 0.072 144.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.1983 0.3024 0.1825)
HSV
hsv(122, 46%, 31%)
LAB
lab(29.70% -21.42 16.76)
LCH
lch(29.70% 27.20 141.95)
CMYK
cmyk(46%, 0%, 45%, 69%)

Etymology

Eclipsed
adjective

Greek ékleipsis, abandonment — past-participle of eclipse. As a color modifier, eclipsed implies the deep occulting darkness of a celestial-body-blocked light-source, where umbral-and-penumbral shadows fall on the hue. Sits at the deep-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to occluded with astronomical connotation.

Amazon
noun

The largest river basin and rainforest on Earth — and the unifying deep green of Amazonian canopy seen from above. Amazon color refers to the average reflectance of an unbroken Amazon canopy: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow-green with the matte finish of high-rainfall tropical 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.

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.

#2a4e2b
Original
#4f4828
Protanopia
#4a452d
Deuteranopia
#254c45
Tritanopia
#444444
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
9.45:1
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
2.22:1

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
##2A4E2B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.1983 0.3024 0.1825)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.072

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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