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Engraved Jupiter Moss

#b1e992
Notes

Engraved Jupiter Moss (#B1E992) is a soft 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 (99°, 66%, 74%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#b1e992
RGB
rgb(177, 233, 146)
HSL
hsl(99, 66%, 74%)
HWB
hwb(99 57% 9%)
OKLCH
oklch(87.5% 0.128 135.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7395 0.9075 0.6082)
HSV
hsv(99, 37%, 91%)
LAB
lab(86.85% -33.18 36.67)
LCH
lch(86.85% 49.45 132.14)
CMYK
cmyk(24%, 0%, 37%, 9%)

Etymology

Engraved
adjective

Old French engraver, to dig in — past-participle of engrave. As a color modifier, engraved implies a clear-and-precisely-cut quality, the crisp color of Albrecht-Dürer-and-Hogarth hand-pulled engraving-print fine-line incised-image. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and inscribed in usage.

Jupiter
modifier

Latin Iuppiter, Roman-king-of-gods-and-fifth-planet. As a color modifier, jupiter implies a Roman-king-of-gods-and-fifth-planet-and-gas-giant quality, the visual register of Roman-Jupiter-Optimus-Maximus-and-Galileo-moons hand-Roman-king-of-gods-and-fifth-planet-and-gas-giant Roman-Jupiter-Optimus-Maximus-and-Galileo-moons-and-Great-Red-Spot jupiter-and-Roman-king-of-gods surfaces under Roman-Jupiter-Optimus-Maximus-and-Galileo-moons-and-Great-Red-Spot Capitoline-Hill-and-Galilean-moon-discovery king-of-planets-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to venus and saturn in usage.

Moss
noun

Bryophyta — the nonvascular plants that colonized land 470 million years ago, before vascular plants and far before flowers. The color refers to a thick mat of Hypnum or sphagnum on a temperate forest floor: a soft, slightly yellow-shifted green with the velvet texture of millimeter-scale leaves. Dustier than fern, deeper than lichen, with the slow patience of a plant that lives by absorbing rain through its surface.

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.

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Original
#efdd8c
Protanopia
#e7d897
Deuteranopia
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Tritanopia
#d7d7d7
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
1.41:1
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
14.94:1

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
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Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7395 0.9075 0.6082)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.128

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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