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Confident Smaragd

#00a103
Notes

Confident Smaragd (#00A103) is a deep green with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (121°, 100%, 32%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark 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
#00a103
RGB
rgb(0, 161, 3)
HSL
hsl(121, 100%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(121 0% 37%)
OKLCH
oklch(61.4% 0.208 142.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2790 0.6218 0.1779)
HSV
hsv(121, 100%, 63%)
LAB
lab(57.55% -61.02 58.53)
LCH
lch(57.55% 84.55 136.19)
CMYK
cmyk(100%, 0%, 98%, 37%)

Etymology

Confident
adjective

A late-Latin participle, confidens, trusting — borrowed into English in the sixteenth century. As a color modifier, confident implies saturation combined with poise: a confident red doesn't try too hard, just sits at the level of its hue without overreaching. Sits in the bold-bucket center near bold and resolute.

Smaragd
noun

The German and Slavic word for emerald — borrowed from the Greek smaragdos via Latin smaragdus. Smaragd in German jewelry vocabulary refers to the deep green of fine Colombian emeralds. The color refers to a faceted Russian Imperial-period smaragd: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the gem's signature internal warmth.

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.

#00a103
Original
#a59000
Protanopia
#968622
Deuteranopia
#009c88
Tritanopia
#737373
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).
AA Largeon White
3.44:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAon Black
6.10:1

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
##00A103
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2790 0.6218 0.1779)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.208

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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