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Webby Vihreä

#98a48c
Notes

Webby Vihreä (#98A48C) 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 (90°, 12%, 60%) 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
#98a48c
RGB
rgb(152, 164, 140)
HSL
hsl(90, 12%, 60%)
HWB
hwb(90 55% 36%)
OKLCH
oklch(70.2% 0.037 129.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6048 0.6416 0.5574)
HSV
hsv(90, 15%, 64%)
LAB
lab(65.84% -8.75 11.03)
LCH
lch(65.84% 14.08 128.42)
CMYK
cmyk(7%, 0%, 15%, 36%)

Etymology

Webby
adjective

Old English webb, web — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, webby implies a pale-and-network-and-thin-thread quality, the pale color of attic-and-cellar long-undisturbed cobweb-and-spider-silk thin-network-pattern dust-collected surface. Sits at the pale-and-thin end of the grid, parallel to cobwebby and gossamer in usage.

Vihreä
noun

The Finnish word for green — used for the saturated green of Finnish summer forests and the green-and-blue of the Finnish suomenlippu national flag's lake-and-forest symbolism. The color refers to a Finnish boreal forest understory: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow-green with the matte finish of moss-and-undergrowth.

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.

#98a48c
Original
#a7a08b
Protanopia
#a5a08d
Deuteranopia
#99a29d
Tritanopia
#a0a0a0
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
2.62:1
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
8.02:1

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
##98A48C
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6048 0.6416 0.5574)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.037

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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