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Plotted Grün

#657a51
Notes

Plotted Grün (#657A51) is a true lime 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 (91°, 20%, 40%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#657a51
RGB
rgb(101, 122, 81)
HSL
hsl(91, 20%, 40%)
HWB
hwb(91 32% 52%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.1% 0.066 130.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4122 0.4760 0.3340)
HSV
hsv(91, 34%, 48%)
LAB
lab(48.61% -15.63 20.00)
LCH
lch(48.61% 25.38 128.00)
CMYK
cmyk(17%, 0%, 34%, 52%)

Etymology

Plotted
adjective

Old English plot, small piece of ground — past-participle of plot. As a color modifier, plotted implies a clear-and-coordinate-mapped quality, the crisp color of Cartesian-and-graph-paper coordinate-plotted scientific-and-engineering data-visualization plot-line. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and surveyed in usage.

Grün
noun

The German word for green — used in Grünspan (verdigris) and Grün-Gelb of medieval German banners. The color refers to a Grün-painted Bavarian dirndl ribbon: a saturated, slightly cool green with the matte finish of dyed wool. The German cousin of green.

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.

#657a51
Original
#7e744e
Protanopia
#7b7353
Deuteranopia
#66776f
Tritanopia
#737373
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).
AAon White
4.71:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
4.46:1

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
##657A51
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4122 0.4760 0.3340)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.066

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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