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Tamed Edamame

#757e6b
Notes

Tamed Edamame (#757E6B) 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 (88°, 8%, 46%) 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
#757e6b
RGB
rgb(117, 126, 107)
HSL
hsl(88, 8%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(88 42% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.0% 0.030 128.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4653 0.4930 0.4263)
HSV
hsv(88, 15%, 49%)
LAB
lab(51.57% -7.07 9.22)
LCH
lch(51.57% 11.62 127.48)
CMYK
cmyk(7%, 0%, 15%, 51%)

Etymology

Tamed
adjective

Old English tam, tame — past-participle of tame. As a color modifier, tamed implies a hushed-and-controlled-and-modulated quality where the hue carries the visual register of intentionally-controlled-and-restrained-and-eased color treatment. Sits at the hushed-and-restrained end of the grid, parallel to modulated and restrained in usage.

Edamame
noun

The Japanese name for fresh young soybeans (Glycine max) — boiled in salted water and served as a popular Japanese pub appetizer. The color refers to fresh-boiled edamame pods: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the satin finish of cooked legume pod.

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.

#757e6b
Original
#807b6a
Protanopia
#7f7b6c
Deuteranopia
#767c79
Tritanopia
#7b7b7b
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
4.24:1
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
4.95:1

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
##757E6B
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4653 0.4930 0.4263)
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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