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Reposed Juniper

#657b63
Notes

Reposed Juniper (#657B63) 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 (115°, 11%, 44%) 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#657b63
RGB
rgb(101, 123, 99)
HSL
hsl(115, 11%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(115 39% 52%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.8% 0.045 142.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4130 0.4798 0.3961)
HSV
hsv(115, 20%, 48%)
LAB
lab(49.29% -13.04 10.51)
LCH
lch(49.29% 16.75 141.12)
CMYK
cmyk(18%, 0%, 20%, 52%)

Etymology

Reposed
adjective

Latin repōnere, to put back — past-participle of repose. As a color modifier, reposed implies a hushed-and-restful-and-still quality where the hue carries the visual register of pre-modern monastic Cistercian-Cloister meditative-and-still interior-architecture. Sits at the hushed-and-still end of the grid, parallel to restful and contemplative in usage.

Juniper
noun

The genus Juniperus, evergreen shrubs and trees whose fleshy berries — actually fleshy cones — flavor gin and Scandinavian sauerkraut. The color refers to the foliage of a mature juniper: a deep, slightly muted green with the matte finish of scale leaves and resinous waxes. Drabber than spruce, warmer than fir, with the alpine association of a plant that can grow at higher elevation than almost any other tree.

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.

#657b63
Original
#7c7762
Protanopia
#797464
Deuteranopia
#637974
Tritanopia
#757575
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
4.60:1
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
4.57:1

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
##657B63
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4130 0.4798 0.3961)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.045

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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