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Ironed Diatom

#399b65
Notes

Ironed Diatom (#399B65) is a true 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 (147°, 46%, 42%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#399b65
RGB
rgb(57, 155, 101)
HSL
hsl(147, 46%, 42%)
HWB
hwb(147 22% 39%)
OKLCH
oklch(61.8% 0.123 155.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3351 0.5998 0.4140)
HSV
hsv(147, 63%, 61%)
LAB
lab(57.32% -41.36 20.10)
LCH
lch(57.32% 45.99 154.08)
CMYK
cmyk(63%, 0%, 35%, 39%)

Etymology

Ironed
adjective

Old English īsern, iron — past-participle of iron. As a color modifier, ironed implies a clear-and-smoothed-and-pressed quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern freshly-ironed-shirt-and-trouser dress-attire textile finish. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to pressed and starched in usage.

Diatom
noun

Single-celled algae with intricate silica cell walls — among the most numerous photosynthetic organisms on Earth, producing roughly a quarter of global oxygen. The color refers to a diatom-bloom-tinted lake at midday: a soft, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical complexity of suspended single-celled algae.

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.

#399b65
Original
#9a8f62
Protanopia
#8d8668
Deuteranopia
#0a9a8d
Tritanopia
#828282
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
3.47:1
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
6.05:1

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
##399B65
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3351 0.5998 0.4140)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.123

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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