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Replete Spring

#2d7e24
Notes

Replete Spring (#2D7E24) is a deep green 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 (114°, 56%, 32%) 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
#2d7e24
RGB
rgb(45, 126, 36)
HSL
hsl(114, 56%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(114 14% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.4% 0.148 141.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2686 0.4874 0.1952)
HSV
hsv(114, 71%, 49%)
LAB
lab(46.45% -42.48 40.03)
LCH
lch(46.45% 58.37 136.70)
CMYK
cmyk(64%, 0%, 71%, 51%)

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.

Spring
noun

The season — and the color of the new chlorophyll that appears with it. Spring green refers to the saturated, slightly yellow-shifted green of a temperate-zone canopy in early May: a clean, optically bright green with the translucent quality of new leaf tissue against the sun. Cooler than chartreuse, lighter than fern, with the seasonal optimism of a color that lasts only the few weeks before summer settles in.

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.

#2d7e24
Original
#817217
Protanopia
#776c2d
Deuteranopia
#1f7a6c
Tritanopia
#666666
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
5.10:1
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
4.12:1

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
##2D7E24
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2686 0.4874 0.1952)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.148

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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