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Sure Sagittarius Kingfisher

#2e8344
Notes

Sure Sagittarius Kingfisher (#2E8344) 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 (136°, 48%, 35%) 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
#2e8344
RGB
rgb(46, 131, 68)
HSL
hsl(136, 48%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(136 18% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.3% 0.126 148.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2779 0.5067 0.2924)
HSV
hsv(136, 65%, 51%)
LAB
lab(48.55% -39.96 26.65)
LCH
lch(48.55% 48.03 146.29)
CMYK
cmyk(65%, 0%, 48%, 49%)

Etymology

Sure
adjective

Old French seur, certain — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as confident and stable. Sure red, sure blue: moderate saturation combined with optical commitment. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside steady and true.

Sagittarius
modifier

Latin sagittarius, archer-of-the-zodiac. As a color modifier, sagittarius implies a centaur-archer-and-fire-sign-and-Jupiter-ruled-mutable-fire quality, the visual register of Hellenic-Sagittarius-and-Chiron-centaur-archer hand-centaur-archer-and-fire-sign-and-Jupiter-ruled-mutable-fire Hellenic-Sagittarius-and-Chiron-centaur-archer-and-galactic-center sagittarius-and-centaur-archer-and-fire-sign surfaces under Hellenic-Sagittarius-and-Chiron-centaur-archer-and-galactic-center late-autumn-and-November-and-December mutable-fire-sign-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to scorpio and capricorn in usage.

Kingfisher
noun

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.

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.

#2e8344
Original
#84783f
Protanopia
#797048
Deuteranopia
#138074
Tritanopia
#6c6c6c
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
4.72:1
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
4.45:1

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
##2E8344
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2779 0.5067 0.2924)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.126

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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