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Unblemished Sumatra

#73b071
Notes

Unblemished Sumatra (#73B071) is a true green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (118°, 29%, 57%) 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
#73b071
RGB
rgb(115, 176, 113)
HSL
hsl(118, 29%, 57%)
HWB
hwb(118 44% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(69.9% 0.110 143.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5043 0.6839 0.4670)
HSV
hsv(118, 36%, 69%)
LAB
lab(66.43% -32.52 26.21)
LCH
lch(66.43% 41.77 141.13)
CMYK
cmyk(35%, 0%, 36%, 31%)

Etymology

Unblemished
adjective

Old French blesmir, to wound — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of blemish. As a color modifier, unblemished implies a clear-and-flawless quality where the hue carries no defect or imperfection. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and spotless in usage.

Sumatra
noun

The Indonesian island — home to the Sumatran orangutan, tiger, and rhinoceros — and the deep green of Sumatran rainforest and Coffea arabica coffee plantations. Sumatra color refers to a Sumatran highland coffee plantation: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the matte finish of broad-leaved coffee shrubs.

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.

#73b071
Original
#b3a56d
Protanopia
#a99f75
Deuteranopia
#6daca0
Tritanopia
#9e9e9e
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).
Failon White
2.57:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.18:1

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
##73B071
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5043 0.6839 0.4670)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.110

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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