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Mature Atacamite

#61837f
Notes

Mature Atacamite (#61837F) 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 (173°, 15%, 45%) places it in the muted 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
#61837f
RGB
rgb(97, 131, 127)
HSL
hsl(173, 15%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(173 38% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.3% 0.039 187.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4081 0.5100 0.4975)
HSV
hsv(173, 26%, 51%)
LAB
lab(52.18% -12.86 -1.74)
LCH
lch(52.18% 12.98 187.70)
CMYK
cmyk(26%, 0%, 3%, 49%)

Etymology

Mature
adjective

Latin mātūrus, ripe / timely. As a color modifier, mature implies a hushed-and-fully-ripened-and-deepened quality where the hue carries the visual register of Burgundy-and-Bordeaux matured-wine-and-aged-cheese fully-developed character. Sits at the hushed-and-aged end of the grid, parallel to seasoned and aged in usage.

Atacamite
noun

A copper-chloride mineral named for the Atacama Desert of Chile where it was first described. Atacamite forms in arid copper-mineral deposits worldwide. The color refers to a clean atacamite crystal: a saturated, slightly cool deep emerald-green with the satin finish of crystallized secondary copper mineral.

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.

#61837f
Original
#7f7f7f
Protanopia
#797a7f
Deuteranopia
#578582
Tritanopia
#7b7b7b
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
4.15:1
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
5.06:1

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
##61837F
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4081 0.5100 0.4975)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.039

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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