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Reposed Catmint

#758a7c
Notes

Reposed Catmint (#758A7C) 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 (140°, 8%, 50%) 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
#758a7c
RGB
rgb(117, 138, 124)
HSL
hsl(140, 8%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(140 46% 46%)
OKLCH
oklch(61.3% 0.032 156.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4748 0.5387 0.4901)
HSV
hsv(140, 15%, 54%)
LAB
lab(55.50% -10.47 4.98)
LCH
lch(55.50% 11.59 154.57)
CMYK
cmyk(15%, 0%, 10%, 46%)

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.

Catmint
noun

The genus Nepeta — particularly N. mussinii (catmint), the cottage-garden perennial with silver-green foliage and lavender-blue flower spikes. The color refers to a fresh catmint clump in May: a soft, slightly cool gray-green with the matte finish of small mint-family leaves. Cooler than santolina.

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.

#758a7c
Original
#8a867b
Protanopia
#86847d
Deuteranopia
#728a86
Tritanopia
#858585
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
3.70:1
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
5.68:1

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
##758A7C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4748 0.5387 0.4901)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.032

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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