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Resplendent Bottle

#16b35d
Notes

Resplendent Bottle (#16B35D) is a true teal 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 (147°, 78%, 39%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#16b35d
RGB
rgb(22, 179, 93)
HSL
hsl(147, 78%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(147 9% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.3% 0.173 151.8)
HSV
hsv(147, 88%, 70%)
LAB
lab(64.32% -56.84 33.41)
LCH
lch(64.32% 65.93 149.55)
CMYK
cmyk(88%, 0%, 48%, 30%)

Etymology

Resplendent
adjective

Latin resplendēns, shining-back — present-participle of resplendere. As a color modifier, resplendent implies a saturated-and-magnificent-shining quality, the bright color of Imperial-court full-formal-regalia gold-and-silver-and-jewel reflective surfaces. Sits at the bright-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to radiant and brilliant in usage.

Bottle
noun

The traditional dark green of European wine and beer bottles — produced by adding iron oxide to the glass batch to filter UV that would damage the contents. The color refers to a Riesling or Burgundy bottle held against the light: a deep, slightly blue-shifted green with the optical translucency of glass. Darker than spruce, cooler than forest, with the cellar weight of a color that's been protecting wine since the seventeenth century.

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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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.

#16b35d
Original
#b3a356
Protanopia
#a39763
Deuteranopia
#00b09f
Tritanopia
#8b8b8b
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
2.75:1
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
7.64:1

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