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Cavalier Terra Forest

#2e8615
Notes

Cavalier Terra Forest (#2E8615) 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 (107°, 73%, 30%) 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
#2e8615
RGB
rgb(46, 134, 21)
HSL
hsl(107, 73%, 30%)
HWB
hwb(107 8% 47%)
OKLCH
oklch(54.6% 0.166 140.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2823 0.5183 0.1701)
HSV
hsv(107, 84%, 53%)
LAB
lab(49.11% -46.30 48.03)
LCH
lch(49.11% 66.71 133.95)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 0%, 84%, 47%)

Etymology

Cavalier
adjective

Italian cavaliere, horseman / knight via Latin caballārius. As a color modifier, cavalier implies a saturated-and-chivalrous-and-aristocratic quality, the deep-rich color of English-Civil-War royalist Cavalier military-faction velvet-and-lace-and-feathered-hat livery. Sits at the bold-and-chivalrous end of the grid, parallel to gallant and knightly.

Terra
modifier

Latin terra, earth-or-land. As a color modifier, terra implies a earth-globe-and-loamy-and-grounded quality, the visual register of Pale-Blue-Dot-and-Apollo-Terra hand-earth-globe-and-loamy-and-grounded Pale-Blue-Dot-and-Apollo-and-Earthrise terra-and-earth-globe-and-loamy-and-grounded surfaces under Pale-Blue-Dot-and-Apollo-and-Earthrise lunar-orbit-and-deep-space earth-globe-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to luna and sol 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.

#2e8615
Original
#8a7900
Protanopia
#7f7223
Deuteranopia
#208172
Tritanopia
#6b6b6b
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
4.63:1
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
4.54:1

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
##2E8615
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2823 0.5183 0.1701)
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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