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Reposed Roller

#657c74
Notes

Reposed Roller (#657C74) 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°, 10%, 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#657c74
RGB
rgb(101, 124, 116)
HSL
hsl(159, 10%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(159 40% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.5% 0.030 172.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4139 0.4836 0.4563)
HSV
hsv(159, 19%, 49%)
LAB
lab(50.03% -10.11 1.59)
LCH
lch(50.03% 10.24 171.06)
CMYK
cmyk(19%, 0%, 6%, 51%)

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.

Roller
noun

The family Coraciidae — Old World rollers whose acrobatic flight gives the family its name. Coracias caudatus (lilac-breasted roller) of southern Africa displays saturated turquoise wing covers. The color refers to a male lilac-breasted roller's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep turquoise.

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.

#657c74
Original
#7a7974
Protanopia
#767675
Deuteranopia
#607c7a
Tritanopia
#777777
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
4.48:1
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
4.69:1

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
##657C74
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4139 0.4836 0.4563)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.030

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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