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Wilted Indicolite

#375653
Notes

Wilted Indicolite (#375653) 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 (174°, 22%, 28%) 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
#375653
RGB
rgb(55, 86, 83)
HSL
hsl(174, 22%, 28%)
HWB
hwb(174 22% 66%)
OKLCH
oklch(42.8% 0.037 188.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2425 0.3340 0.3248)
HSV
hsv(174, 36%, 34%)
LAB
lab(34.17% -12.17 -1.90)
LCH
lch(34.17% 12.32 188.86)
CMYK
cmyk(36%, 0%, 3%, 66%)

Etymology

Wilted
adjective

Old English wieltan, to roll / faint — past-participle of wilt. As a color modifier, wilted implies a hushed-and-drooping-and-faded quality where the hue carries the visual register of cut-flower-and-summer-foliage gradually-drooping-and-fading color-amplitude. Sits at the hushed-and-fading end of the grid, parallel to withering and fading in usage.

Indicolite
noun

A blue variety of tourmaline — colored by trace iron, mined principally in Brazil, Mozambique, and Pakistan. The color refers to a faceted Brazilian indicolite: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the gem's signature internal warmth. Cooler than aquamarine.

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.

#375653
Original
#535353
Protanopia
#4d4f53
Deuteranopia
#2c5755
Tritanopia
#4f4f4f
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
8.02:1
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
2.62:1

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
##375653
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2425 0.3340 0.3248)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.037

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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