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Flaming Bancha

#27bb6e
Notes

Flaming Bancha (#27BB6E) is a true teal with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (149°, 65%, 44%) 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
#27bb6e
RGB
rgb(39, 187, 110)
HSL
hsl(149, 65%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(149 15% 27%)
OKLCH
oklch(70.0% 0.164 154.4)
HSV
hsv(149, 79%, 73%)
LAB
lab(67.35% -54.99 28.56)
LCH
lch(67.35% 61.96 152.56)
CMYK
cmyk(79%, 0%, 41%, 27%)

Etymology

Flaming
adjective

Old French flamme, flame — present-participle of flame. As a color modifier, flaming implies a saturated-and-fire-and-bright-color quality, the bright color of autumn-Maple-and-Oak deciduous-foliage fall-color and Yule-log fire emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and blazing in usage.

Bancha
noun

The Japanese green tea made from later-season Camellia sinensis leaves — milder than sencha, lower in caffeine, and traditionally drunk with meals across rural Japan. The color refers to fresh-brewed bancha: a soft, slightly cool deep blue-green with the optical clarity of late-season green-tea liquor.

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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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.

#27bb6e
Original
#bbab69
Protanopia
#aa9f73
Deuteranopia
#00b9a8
Tritanopia
#969696
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).
Failon White
2.49:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
8.42:1

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