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Mired Bloodstone

#2f5209
Notes

Mired Bloodstone (#2F5209) is a deep lime with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (89°, 80%, 18%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#2f5209
RGB
rgb(47, 82, 9)
HSL
hsl(89, 80%, 18%)
HWB
hwb(89 4% 68%)
OKLCH
oklch(39.7% 0.105 132.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2161 0.3181 0.0938)
HSV
hsv(89, 89%, 32%)
LAB
lab(31.02% -25.34 35.12)
LCH
lch(31.02% 43.31 125.82)
CMYK
cmyk(43%, 0%, 89%, 68%)

Etymology

Mired
adjective

Old Norse mýrr, mire / bog — past-participle of mire. As a color modifier, mired implies the deep-and-stuck-and-warm-brown quality of bog-and-peat-and-marsh-mud-immersion, like a Yorkshire-Moors hiker's boots after a rainy day on the saturated peat. Sits at the deep-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to peat-stained with earthy register.

Bloodstone
noun

A dark green chalcedony with red iron-oxide flecks — used in classical antiquity for engraved seals and Christian-era ornament (the red flecks symbolizing Christ's blood). Also called heliotrope. The color refers to a polished bloodstone cabochon: a saturated, slightly muted dark yellow-green with the optical complexity of red-flecked chalcedony.

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.

#2f5209
Original
#564b00
Protanopia
#514812
Deuteranopia
#2f4e45
Tritanopia
#454545
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
9.01:1
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
2.33:1

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
##2F5209
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2161 0.3181 0.0938)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.105

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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