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Ragged Glassy

#648378
Notes

Ragged Glassy (#648378) 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 (159°, 13%, 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#648378
RGB
rgb(100, 131, 120)
HSL
hsl(159, 13%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(159 39% 49%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.3% 0.039 171.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4170 0.5103 0.4727)
HSV
hsv(159, 24%, 51%)
LAB
lab(52.17% -13.46 2.35)
LCH
lch(52.17% 13.66 170.09)
CMYK
cmyk(24%, 0%, 8%, 49%)

Etymology

Ragged
adjective

Old Norse rǫgg, shaggy hair — adjectival suffix -ed. As a color modifier, ragged implies a hushed-and-rough-edged-and-worn quality, the hushed color of multi-decade farmhouse-and-cottage heavily-worn-and-shaggy-edged everyday-clothing surface. Sits at the hushed-and-worn end of the grid, parallel to tattered and frayed in usage.

Glassy
noun

A descriptor for very calm water surface — used in maritime vocabulary for sea conditions when wind is below 1 knot and the surface reflects like polished glass. Glassy color refers to a glassy-calm tropical lagoon at dawn: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the mirror-finish optical complexity of unbroken water.

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.

#648378
Original
#817f78
Protanopia
#7b7b79
Deuteranopia
#5d8480
Tritanopia
#7c7c7c
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
##648378
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4170 0.5103 0.4727)
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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