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#253f2e color: English Holly

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141°
100%

OKLCH

34.1%
0.044
155°
  • ≈ Graphite
  • Emerald
  • Dark
  • Soft
  • Cool
  • emerald-900
  • Black 75%

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White text11.48:1 · AALc -100
Black text1.83:1 · Below AALc 7

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About #253f2e

#253f2e is a soft dark emerald color. In OKLCH it has 34.1% lightness, 0.044 chroma and a hue of 155°.

Looks the same on every screen.

White text on it reaches 11.48:1 contrast and black text 1.83:1, so white text reads better.

The closest named color is English Holly (#274234). In Tailwind CSS the closest color is emerald-900.

More dark emerald colors

Lighter: #253f2e mixed with white

  1. 253f2e
  2. 385040
  3. 4c6253
  4. 617466
  5. 76877b
  6. 8b9a8f
  7. a2ada5
  8. b8c1bb
  9. cfd5d1
  10. e7eae8

Darker: #253f2e mixed with black

  1. 253f2e
  2. 1f3527
  3. 192c1f
  4. 132318
  5. 0d1b12
  6. 08120b
  7. 040a06
  8. 020402
  9. 000101
  10. 000000

Calmer: #253f2e with less saturation

  1. 253f2e
  2. 273e2f
  3. 293e30
  4. 2c3d31
  5. 2e3c32
  6. 2f3c33
  7. 313b34
  8. 333a35
  9. 353a36
  10. 363937