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Solid Amazon

#1d7612
Notes

Solid Amazon (#1D7612) 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 (113°, 74%, 27%) places it in the balanced band at a dark lightness. It works well as a headline, icon, or deep background in an otherwise light layout, pairing cleanly with cream, bone, and warm neutrals. 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
#1d7612
RGB
rgb(29, 118, 18)
HSL
hsl(113, 74%, 27%)
HWB
hwb(113 7% 54%)
OKLCH
oklch(49.5% 0.155 141.7)
HSV
hsv(113, 85%, 46%)
LAB
lab(43.15% -44.46 43.25)
LCH
lch(43.15% 62.03 135.79)
CMYK
cmyk(75%, 0%, 85%, 54%)

Etymology

Solid
adjective

Latin solidus, firm, dense — used as a color modifier since the seventeenth century for hues that read as continuous and unbroken: a solid blue is one with no variation across the surface. Implies high saturation combined with optical density. Sits in the bold-bucket alongside strong and robust, slightly more focused on uniformity.

Amazon
noun

The largest river basin and rainforest on Earth — and the unifying deep green of Amazonian canopy seen from above. Amazon color refers to the average reflectance of an unbroken Amazon canopy: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow-green with the matte finish of high-rainfall tropical foliage.

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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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.

#1d7612
Original
#796a00
Protanopia
#6f631f
Deuteranopia
#017264
Tritanopia
#5c5c5c
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).
AAon White
5.75:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AA Largeon Black
3.65:1

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