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Stamped Tundra

#569b52
Notes

Stamped Tundra (#569B52) is a true green 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 (117°, 31%, 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#569b52
RGB
rgb(86, 155, 82)
HSL
hsl(117, 31%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(117 32% 39%)
OKLCH
oklch(62.6% 0.127 142.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4026 0.6012 0.3528)
HSV
hsv(117, 47%, 61%)
LAB
lab(58.06% -37.08 31.53)
LCH
lch(58.06% 48.68 139.63)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 0%, 47%, 39%)

Etymology

Stamped
adjective

Old English stempan, to stamp — past-participle of stamp. As a color modifier, stamped implies a clear-and-impressed-and-repeating quality, the crisp color of William-Morris-and-Liberty-of-London block-printed-textile carefully-impressed pattern. Sits at the crisp-and-printed end of the grid, parallel to printed and engraved in usage.

Tundra
noun

The treeless biome of arctic and subarctic regions — characterized by short summer growing seasons, permafrost, and dwarf woody plants. Tundra color refers to a Yukon tundra landscape in midsummer: a soft, slightly muted deep yellow-green with the matte finish of low-stature Vaccinium and Salix shrubs.

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.

#569b52
Original
#9e8f4c
Protanopia
#948957
Deuteranopia
#4e978a
Tritanopia
#878787
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
3.38:1
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
6.21:1

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
##569B52
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4026 0.6012 0.3528)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.127

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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