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Burnt Demantoid

#2a4714
Notes

Burnt Demantoid (#2A4714) is a deep lime with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (94°, 56%, 18%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#2a4714
RGB
rgb(42, 71, 20)
HSL
hsl(94, 56%, 18%)
HWB
hwb(94 8% 72%)
OKLCH
oklch(36.2% 0.085 134.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.1905 0.2755 0.1081)
HSV
hsv(94, 72%, 28%)
LAB
lab(26.87% -21.12 26.40)
LCH
lch(26.87% 33.81 128.66)
CMYK
cmyk(41%, 0%, 72%, 72%)

Etymology

Burnt
adjective

The past participle of burn used as a color modifier — most familiar in burnt sienna and burnt umber, the pigments produced by firing raw earth pigments to deepen and warm them. Implies a color that has been reduced and concentrated by heat, with the slight red-orange shift that high-temperature oxidation introduces. Sits in the dark-and-warm corner of the engine's grid.

Demantoid
noun

A green variety of andradite garnet — known for its high dispersion (more than diamond) and prized in late-Tsarist-era Russian jewelry. Mined principally in the Russian Urals, Namibia, and Madagascar. The color refers to a faceted Russian demantoid: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the gem's signature internal fire.

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.

#2a4714
Original
#4a410e
Protanopia
#463f18
Deuteranopia
#2a443c
Tritanopia
#3d3d3d
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).
AAAon White
10.45:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon Black
2.01:1

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
##2A4714
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.1905 0.2755 0.1081)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.085

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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