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Manorial Tirkizhna

#2a8c46
Notes

Manorial Tirkizhna (#2A8C46) is a true 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 (137°, 54%, 36%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#2a8c46
RGB
rgb(42, 140, 70)
HSL
hsl(137, 54%, 36%)
HWB
hwb(137 16% 45%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.7% 0.138 149.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2841 0.5413 0.3038)
HSV
hsv(137, 70%, 55%)
LAB
lab(51.48% -44.03 29.26)
LCH
lch(51.48% 52.87 146.39)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 0%, 50%, 45%)

Etymology

Manorial
adjective

Latin manōrium, dwelling — adjectival suffix -al, derived from manēre (to remain). As a color modifier, manorial implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-rural quality, the deep-rich color of pre-modern English manor-house livery-and-tapestry tradition. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to lordly and patrician.

Tirkizhna
noun

The Slavic word for turquoise-colored — used across Russian, Ukrainian, and Polish color vocabulary for the saturated blue-green of Iranian and Central Asian turquoise. The color refers to a tirkizhna-glazed samovar: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the high gloss of fired ceramic.

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.

#2a8c46
Original
#8d8040
Protanopia
#81774b
Deuteranopia
#00897c
Tritanopia
#727272
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).
AA Largeon White
4.25:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
4.94:1

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
##2A8C46
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2841 0.5413 0.3038)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.138

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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