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Restful Floret

#8b9373
Notes

Restful Floret (#8B9373) is a true lime 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 (75°, 13%, 51%) 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
#8b9373
RGB
rgb(139, 147, 115)
HSL
hsl(75, 13%, 51%)
HWB
hwb(75 45% 42%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.8% 0.047 119.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5508 0.5755 0.4633)
HSV
hsv(75, 22%, 58%)
LAB
lab(59.52% -8.72 16.01)
LCH
lch(59.52% 18.23 118.58)
CMYK
cmyk(5%, 0%, 22%, 42%)

Etymology

Restful
adjective

An adjectival form of rest — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as visually relaxing. Restful green, restful blue: low-to-moderate saturation combined with optical calmness. Sits at the hushed-bucket alongside quiet and gentle.

Floret
noun

A small individual flower in a clustered inflorescence — particularly the small yellow florets of composite-family flowers (sunflower, daisy, calendula). The color refers to a single sunflower floret: a saturated, slightly red yellow with the matte finish of small disc-floret. Brighter than corn.

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.

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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.

#8b9373
Original
#978f71
Protanopia
#968f74
Deuteranopia
#8e8f8a
Tritanopia
#8f8f8f
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
3.22:1
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
6.52:1

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
##8B9373
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5508 0.5755 0.4633)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.047

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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