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Buttoned Eden Verdigris

#3cb1a9
Notes

Buttoned Eden Verdigris (#3CB1A9) is a true cyan 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 (176°, 49%, 46%) 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 red. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#3cb1a9
RGB
rgb(60, 177, 169)
HSL
hsl(176, 49%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(176 24% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(69.4% 0.103 188.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3738 0.6847 0.6606)
HSV
hsv(176, 66%, 69%)
LAB
lab(65.96% -34.00 -5.47)
LCH
lch(65.96% 34.43 189.14)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 0%, 5%, 31%)

Etymology

Buttoned
adjective

Old French bouton, button — past-participle of button. As a color modifier, buttoned implies a clear-and-fastened-and-formal quality, the crisp color of Edwardian-period formal-attire fully-fastened-and-formally-dressed gentleman's-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Eden
modifier

Hebrew ‘Ēden, garden-of-paradise. As a color modifier, eden implies a primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation quality, the visual register of Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise hand-primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise-and-Northern-Renaissance eden-and-primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation surfaces under Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise-and-Northern-Renaissance Cranach-and-Bosch-and-Hieronymus primal-garden-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to avalon and bliss in usage.

Verdigris
noun

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.

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.

#3cb1a9
Original
#a7a8a9
Protanopia
#969baa
Deuteranopia
#00b5ae
Tritanopia
#989898
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).
Failon White
2.61:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.05:1

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
##3CB1A9
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3738 0.6847 0.6606)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.103

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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