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Spotless Sequoia

#2b6e25
Notes

Spotless Sequoia (#2B6E25) 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 (115°, 50%, 29%) 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
#2b6e25
RGB
rgb(43, 110, 37)
HSL
hsl(115, 50%, 29%)
HWB
hwb(115 15% 57%)
OKLCH
oklch(47.8% 0.127 142.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2415 0.4256 0.1847)
HSV
hsv(115, 66%, 43%)
LAB
lab(40.89% -36.59 33.53)
LCH
lch(40.89% 49.63 137.50)
CMYK
cmyk(61%, 0%, 66%, 57%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

Sequoia
noun

Sequoiadendron giganteum, the giant sequoia of the Sierra Nevada — the largest living tree species on Earth by volume. Sequoia color refers to mature sequoia needle foliage: a deep, slightly cool dark green with the matte finish of scale-leaf conifer 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.

#2b6e25
Original
#71641c
Protanopia
#685e2b
Deuteranopia
#216b5f
Tritanopia
#5a5a5a
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
6.25:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.36:1

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
##2B6E25
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2415 0.4256 0.1847)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.127

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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