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Drawn Zelyonyy

#798f6d
Notes

Drawn Zelyonyy (#798F6D) 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 (99°, 13%, 49%) 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
#798f6d
RGB
rgb(121, 143, 109)
HSL
hsl(99, 13%, 49%)
HWB
hwb(99 43% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(62.3% 0.056 134.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4912 0.5582 0.4397)
HSV
hsv(99, 24%, 56%)
LAB
lab(56.89% -14.50 15.56)
LCH
lch(56.89% 21.27 132.99)
CMYK
cmyk(15%, 0%, 24%, 44%)

Etymology

Drawn
adjective

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Zelyonyy
noun

The Russian word for green — used in classical Russian literature for the zelyonyye lawns of Moscow's pre-revolutionary gardens and the green velvet of Russian Orthodox vestments. The color refers to a zelyonyy-painted Russian carriage interior: a saturated, slightly cool green with the matte finish of weathered paint.

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.

#798f6d
Original
#928a6b
Protanopia
#8e886f
Deuteranopia
#798c86
Tritanopia
#888888
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
3.52:1
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
5.96:1

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
##798F6D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4912 0.5582 0.4397)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.056

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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