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Patterned Verdure

#e3fce1
Notes

Patterned Verdure (#E3FCE1) is a soft green with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (116°, 82%, 94%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#e3fce1
RGB
rgb(227, 252, 225)
HSL
hsl(116, 82%, 94%)
HWB
hwb(116 88% 1%)
OKLCH
oklch(96.6% 0.044 143.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9086 0.9852 0.8907)
HSV
hsv(116, 11%, 99%)
LAB
lab(96.57% -12.98 10.19)
LCH
lch(96.57% 16.50 141.86)
CMYK
cmyk(10%, 0%, 11%, 1%)

Etymology

Patterned
adjective

Old French patron, pattern / model — past-participle of pattern. As a color modifier, patterned implies a pale-and-repeating-design-and-structured quality, the pale color of William-Morris-and-Liberty-of-London hand-block-printed-and-repeated decorative-and-structured pattern-design surface. Sits at the pale-and-soft end of the grid, parallel to marbled and figured in usage.

Verdure
noun

The lush green of healthy vegetation — used in landscape painting and Mediterranean gardening vocabulary. Verdure color refers to a Tuscan landscape in late spring: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the matte finish of well-irrigated foliage. Drier than verdant.

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.

#e3fce1
Original
#fef7e0
Protanopia
#f9f4e2
Deuteranopia
#e1faf4
Tritanopia
#f5f5f5
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
1.09:1
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
19.28:1

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
##E3FCE1
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9086 0.9852 0.8907)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.044

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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