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Foggy Tabbouleh

#a7bda1
Notes

Foggy Tabbouleh (#A7BDA1) 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 (107°, 18%, 69%) 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
#a7bda1
RGB
rgb(167, 189, 161)
HSL
hsl(107, 18%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(107 63% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(77.4% 0.046 139.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6713 0.7385 0.6406)
HSV
hsv(107, 15%, 74%)
LAB
lab(74.31% -12.80 11.65)
LCH
lch(74.31% 17.31 137.69)
CMYK
cmyk(12%, 0%, 15%, 26%)

Etymology

Foggy
adjective

Old English focgi, fog — adjectival suffix -y. As a color modifier, foggy implies a pale-and-vaporous-and-low-visibility quality, the pale color of San-Francisco-and-Vancouver coastal-marine-layer dense-fog-and-low-visibility atmospheric-condition. Sits at the pale-and-veiled end of the grid, parallel to mistlike and misted in usage.

Tabbouleh
noun

The Levantine bulgur-and-parsley salad — primarily fresh flat-leaf parsley with mint, tomato, lemon, and olive oil — traditional across Lebanese, Syrian, and Palestinian mezze tables. Tabbouleh color refers to fresh-chopped parsley in a tabbouleh: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow-green with the matte finish of chopped fresh parsley.

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.

#a7bda1
Original
#bfb89f
Protanopia
#bbb6a2
Deuteranopia
#a6bbb5
Tritanopia
#b6b6b6
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
2.01:1
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
10.44:1

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
##A7BDA1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6713 0.7385 0.6406)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.046

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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