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Centered Pallas Forest

#34911c
Notes

Centered Pallas Forest (#34911C) 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 (108°, 68%, 34%) 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
#34911c
RGB
rgb(52, 145, 28)
HSL
hsl(108, 68%, 34%)
HWB
hwb(108 11% 43%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.9% 0.173 140.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3104 0.5610 0.1953)
HSV
hsv(108, 81%, 57%)
LAB
lab(53.02% -48.41 49.62)
LCH
lch(53.02% 69.33 134.29)
CMYK
cmyk(64%, 0%, 81%, 43%)

Etymology

Centered
adjective

Latin centrum, center — past-participle of center. As a color modifier, centered implies a saturated-and-grounded-and-balanced quality where the hue occupies the visual center of its palette without drift. Sits at the bold-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to poised and grounded.

Pallas
modifier

Greek Παλλάς, epithet-of-Athena. As a color modifier, pallas implies an asteroid-and-Athena-warrior-maiden quality, the visual register of Pallas-asteroid-and-Athena-warrior hand-asteroid-and-Athena-warrior-maiden Pallas-asteroid-and-Athena-warrior-and-Olbers-discovery pallas-and-asteroid-and-Athena-warrior-maiden surfaces under Pallas-asteroid-and-Athena-warrior-and-Olbers-discovery asteroid-belt-and-Athenian-Acropolis warrior-goddess-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to ceres and vesta 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.

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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.

#34911c
Original
#958300
Protanopia
#8a7c2a
Deuteranopia
#268c7b
Tritanopia
#757575
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
4.03:1
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
5.21:1

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
##34911C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3104 0.5610 0.1953)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.173

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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