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Mature Türkis

#33544c
Notes

Mature Türkis (#33544C) is a deep teal 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 (165°, 24%, 26%) places it in the muted 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#33544c
RGB
rgb(51, 84, 76)
HSL
hsl(165, 24%, 26%)
HWB
hwb(165 20% 67%)
OKLCH
oklch(41.8% 0.041 177.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2293 0.3261 0.2991)
HSV
hsv(165, 39%, 33%)
LAB
lab(33.06% -14.18 0.86)
LCH
lch(33.06% 14.20 176.52)
CMYK
cmyk(39%, 0%, 10%, 67%)

Etymology

Mature
adjective

Latin mātūrus, ripe / timely. As a color modifier, mature implies a hushed-and-fully-ripened-and-deepened quality where the hue carries the visual register of Burgundy-and-Bordeaux matured-wine-and-aged-cheese fully-developed character. Sits at the hushed-and-aged end of the grid, parallel to seasoned and aged in usage.

Türkis
noun

The German word for turquoise — borrowed via medieval Italian turchese (Turkish stone). Used in German jewelry vocabulary for the saturated blue-green of Iranian and American Southwest turquoise. The color refers to a Sleeping Beauty türkis cabochon: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green. The Germanic cousin of turquoise.

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.

#33544c
Original
#52504c
Protanopia
#4c4c4d
Deuteranopia
#295552
Tritanopia
#4c4c4c
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
8.36:1
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
2.51:1

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
##33544C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2293 0.3261 0.2991)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.041

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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