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Drawn Wakame

#9ce69a
Notes

Drawn Wakame (#9CE69A) is a soft 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 (118°, 60%, 75%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#9ce69a
RGB
rgb(156, 230, 154)
HSL
hsl(118, 60%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(118 60% 10%)
OKLCH
oklch(85.7% 0.127 143.8)
HSV
hsv(118, 33%, 90%)
LAB
lab(84.99% -37.59 29.96)
LCH
lch(84.99% 48.07 141.45)
CMYK
cmyk(32%, 0%, 33%, 10%)

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.

Wakame
noun

Undaria pinnatifida, the Japanese edible seaweed — used in miso shiru (miso soup), goma-wakame (sesame-and-seaweed salad), and sunomono dishes. Wakame color refers to fresh-rehydrated wakame in a clear glass bowl: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the satin finish of marine alga. Cooler than nori.

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.

#9ce69a
Original
#e9d995
Protanopia
#ded19e
Deuteranopia
#95e2d2
Tritanopia
#d1d1d1
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
1.48:1
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
14.20:1

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