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Replete Gemini Forest

#1e841b
Notes

Replete Gemini Forest (#1E841B) 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 (118°, 66%, 31%) 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
#1e841b
RGB
rgb(30, 132, 27)
HSL
hsl(118, 66%, 31%)
HWB
hwb(118 11% 48%)
OKLCH
oklch(53.7% 0.166 142.5)
HSV
hsv(118, 80%, 52%)
LAB
lab(48.08% -48.44 45.03)
LCH
lch(48.08% 66.13 137.09)
CMYK
cmyk(77%, 0%, 80%, 48%)

Etymology

Replete
adjective

Latin replētus, filled — past-participle of replēre. As a color modifier, replete implies a saturated-and-fully-pigmented quality where the hue is completely loaded with its source pigment. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to brimming and suffused in usage.

Gemini
modifier

Latin gemini, twins-of-the-zodiac. As a color modifier, gemini implies a twins-and-air-sign-and-Mercury-ruled-mutable-air quality, the visual register of Castor-and-Pollux-Gemini-twins hand-twins-and-air-sign-and-Mercury-ruled-mutable-air Castor-and-Pollux-Gemini-twins-and-Argonaut-twins gemini-and-twins-and-air-sign surfaces under Castor-and-Pollux-Gemini-twins-and-Argonaut-twins late-spring-and-May-and-June mutable-air-sign-light. Sits at the modifier-and-zodiac end of the grid, parallel to castor and pollux 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.

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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.

#1e841b
Original
#877701
Protanopia
#7c6f27
Deuteranopia
#008070
Tritanopia
#676767
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
4.80:1
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
4.37:1

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