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Patrician Stoa Forest

#2f8921
Notes

Patrician Stoa Forest (#2F8921) is a deep green 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 (112°, 61%, 33%) 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
#2f8921
RGB
rgb(47, 137, 33)
HSL
hsl(112, 61%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(112 13% 46%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.6% 0.162 141.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2888 0.5299 0.1979)
HSV
hsv(112, 76%, 54%)
LAB
lab(50.22% -46.35 45.12)
LCH
lch(50.22% 64.68 135.77)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 0%, 76%, 46%)

Etymology

Patrician
adjective

Latin patrīcius, of the noble class — derived from pater (father). As a color modifier, patrician implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-Roman-Republic quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Patrician-class toga and senatorial-livery hereditary-aristocratic dress. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to senatorial and imperial.

Stoa
modifier

Greek stoa, Greek-colonnaded-walkway. As a color modifier, stoa implies a Greek-and-Athens-colonnaded-walkway quality, the visual register of Athenian-Stoa-of-Attalos hand-built colonnaded-walkway-and-marketplace stoa-and-arcade-and-bouleuterion classical-Greek architectural surfaces under Athenian-Stoa-of-Attalos colonnaded-walkway light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to agora and forum in usage.

Forest
noun

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.

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.

#2f8921
Original
#8d7c0d
Protanopia
#82752c
Deuteranopia
#1f8575
Tritanopia
#6e6e6e
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
4.45:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
4.72:1

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
##2F8921
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2888 0.5299 0.1979)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.162

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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