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Disciplined Knit Verdigris

#91b9a0
Notes

Disciplined Knit Verdigris (#91B9A0) 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 (143°, 22%, 65%) 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
#91b9a0
RGB
rgb(145, 185, 160)
HSL
hsl(143, 22%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(143 57% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.0% 0.056 157.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6004 0.7210 0.6343)
HSV
hsv(143, 22%, 73%)
LAB
lab(71.73% -18.50 8.33)
LCH
lch(71.73% 20.29 155.76)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 14%, 27%)

Etymology

Disciplined
adjective

Latin disciplīna, teaching / training — past-participle of discipline. As a color modifier, disciplined implies a clear-and-controlled-and-careful quality where the hue carries the visual register of careful-edited-and-restrained design-decision. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and orderly in usage.

Knit
modifier

Old English cnyttan, to-knit. As a color modifier, knit implies a hand-knitted-loop-and-stitch quality, the visual register of Aran-Island-and-Fair-Isle-knit hand-knitted-and-cabled wool-and-yarn jumper-and-cardigan knit-textile surfaces under Aran-and-Fair-Isle hand-knitted-cable-and-jumper textile light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to woven and yarn in usage.

Verdigris
noun

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.

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.

#91b9a0
Original
#b8b39f
Protanopia
#b1aea1
Deuteranopia
#8ab8b2
Tritanopia
#afafaf
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
2.18:1
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
9.65:1

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
##91B9A0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6004 0.7210 0.6343)
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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