colors
Back to gallery

Bountiful Nymph Forest

#1d9533
Notes

Bountiful Nymph Forest (#1D9533) is a true 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 (131°, 67%, 35%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. 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
#1d9533
RGB
rgb(29, 149, 51)
HSL
hsl(131, 67%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(131 11% 42%)
OKLCH
oklch(58.6% 0.170 145.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2794 0.5758 0.2531)
HSV
hsv(131, 81%, 58%)
LAB
lab(54.02% -52.02 41.56)
LCH
lch(54.02% 66.59 141.38)
CMYK
cmyk(81%, 0%, 66%, 42%)

Etymology

Bountiful
adjective

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Nymph
modifier

Greek νύμφη, nature-spirit-and-young-bride. As a color modifier, nymph implies a nature-spirit-and-grove-and-spring quality, the visual register of Hellenic-nymph-and-grove-and-spring hand-nature-spirit-and-grove-and-spring Hellenic-nymph-and-grove-and-spring-and-Arcadian-pastoral nymph-and-nature-spirit-and-grove surfaces under Hellenic-nymph-and-grove-and-spring-and-Arcadian-pastoral Mediterranean-grove-and-stream dappled-grove-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to dryad and nereid in usage.

Forest
noun

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.

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

Click any swatch to explore

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.

#1d9533
Original
#978727
Protanopia
#8a7e3c
Deuteranopia
#009181
Tritanopia
#747474
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
3.89:1
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
5.40:1

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
##1D9533
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2794 0.5758 0.2531)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.170

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

Related Colors

Canvas