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Easy Zelyonyy

#83a17c
Notes

Easy Zelyonyy (#83A17C) 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 (109°, 16%, 56%) 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
#83a17c
RGB
rgb(131, 161, 124)
HSL
hsl(109, 16%, 56%)
HWB
hwb(109 49% 37%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.6% 0.063 139.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5370 0.6279 0.4991)
HSV
hsv(109, 23%, 63%)
LAB
lab(63.15% -17.67 15.92)
LCH
lch(63.15% 23.79 137.98)
CMYK
cmyk(19%, 0%, 23%, 37%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

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.

#83a17c
Original
#a39b7a
Protanopia
#9e987e
Deuteranopia
#829e97
Tritanopia
#989898
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
2.86:1
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
7.35:1

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
##83A17C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5370 0.6279 0.4991)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.063

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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