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Bountiful Ventus Forest

#209131
Notes

Bountiful Ventus Forest (#209131) 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 (129°, 64%, 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#209131
RGB
rgb(32, 145, 49)
HSL
hsl(129, 64%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(129 13% 43%)
OKLCH
oklch(57.6% 0.166 145.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2765 0.5604 0.2445)
HSV
hsv(129, 78%, 57%)
LAB
lab(52.71% -50.47 41.02)
LCH
lch(52.71% 65.04 140.90)
CMYK
cmyk(78%, 0%, 66%, 43%)

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.

Ventus
modifier

Latin ventus, wind. As a color modifier, ventus implies a Latin-wind-and-Roman-Aeolus-wind quality, the visual register of Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus hand-Latin-wind-and-Roman-Aeolus-wind Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus-and-Boreas-Notus-Eurus-Zephyrus ventus-and-Latin-wind surfaces under Roman-Aeolus-and-Anemoi-ventus-and-Boreas-Notus-Eurus-Zephyrus Aeolian-and-Vergilian-pastoral Roman-wind-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ignis and unda 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

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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.

#209131
Original
#938325
Protanopia
#877a3a
Deuteranopia
#008d7d
Tritanopia
#727272
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
4.07:1
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
5.16:1

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
##209131
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2765 0.5604 0.2445)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.166

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.

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