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Disciplined Uguisu

#6d8c62
Notes

Disciplined Uguisu (#6D8C62) 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 (104°, 18%, 47%) 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
#6d8c62
RGB
rgb(109, 140, 98)
HSL
hsl(104, 18%, 47%)
HWB
hwb(104 38% 45%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.5% 0.071 137.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4521 0.5455 0.3999)
HSV
hsv(104, 30%, 55%)
LAB
lab(54.96% -19.31 18.98)
LCH
lch(54.96% 27.08 135.49)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 30%, 45%)

Etymology

Disciplined
adjective

Latin disciplīna, teaching / training — past-participle of discipline. As a color modifier, disciplined implies a clear-and-controlled-and-careful quality where the hue carries the visual register of careful-edited-and-restrained design-decision. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and orderly in usage.

Uguisu
noun

Horornis diphone, the Japanese bush warbler — and the slightly muted olive-yellow of the bird's plumage. Uguisu-iro is a traditional Japanese color used in tea-ceremony pottery and fukusa silk wraps. The color refers to a fresh-molted bush warbler: a soft, slightly muted yellow-green with the matte finish of small bird feathers. Cooler than wakaba.

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.

#6d8c62
Original
#8f855f
Protanopia
#8a8264
Deuteranopia
#6c8981
Tritanopia
#828282
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
3.76:1
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
5.58:1

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
##6D8C62
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4521 0.5455 0.3999)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.071

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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