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Plentiful Juno Forest

#248f1e
Notes

Plentiful Juno Forest (#248F1E) 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 (117°, 65%, 34%) 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
#248f1e
RGB
rgb(36, 143, 30)
HSL
hsl(117, 65%, 34%)
HWB
hwb(117 12% 44%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.9% 0.175 142.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2790 0.5527 0.1964)
HSV
hsv(117, 79%, 56%)
LAB
lab(51.96% -50.89 47.82)
LCH
lch(51.96% 69.83 136.79)
CMYK
cmyk(75%, 0%, 79%, 44%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Juno
modifier

Latin Juno, Roman-queen-of-gods. As a color modifier, juno implies an asteroid-and-queen-of-gods quality, the visual register of Juno-asteroid-and-Roman-queen hand-asteroid-and-queen-of-gods Juno-asteroid-and-Roman-queen-and-Jupiter-mission juno-and-asteroid-and-queen-of-gods surfaces under Juno-asteroid-and-Roman-queen-and-Jupiter-mission asteroid-belt-and-Roman-temple ancient-pantheon-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to ceres and vesta 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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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.

#248f1e
Original
#928101
Protanopia
#86792b
Deuteranopia
#008b7a
Tritanopia
#707070
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
4.18:1
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
5.02:1

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
##248F1E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2790 0.5527 0.1964)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.175

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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