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Reinforced Greenhouse

#2e872f
Notes

Reinforced Greenhouse (#2E872F) is a true green with an earthy character. It leans grounded and natural, the kind of color that plays well with wood, clay, linen, and warm neutrals. Its HSL profile (121°, 49%, 35%) 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#2e872f
RGB
rgb(46, 135, 47)
HSL
hsl(121, 49%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(121 18% 47%)
OKLCH
oklch(55.1% 0.151 143.4)
HSV
hsv(121, 66%, 53%)
LAB
lab(49.63% -44.50 38.60)
LCH
lch(49.63% 58.90 139.06)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 0%, 65%, 47%)

Etymology

Reinforced
adjective

Latin re- plus inforce — past-participle of reinforce. As a color modifier, reinforced implies a saturated-and-doubled-up-and-strengthened quality where the hue carries layered pigmentation for maximum visual presence. Sits at the bold-and-fortified end of the grid, parallel to fortified and buttressed.

Greenhouse
noun

A glass-walled growing structure — particularly the Victorian-era Crystal Palace-style conservatories of British country estates and the Wardian cases used to ship live plants across imperial trade routes. Greenhouse refers to the saturated green of dense tropical foliage seen through a glass roof: a saturated, slightly cool deep green.

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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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.

#2e872f
Original
#8a7b25
Protanopia
#7f7337
Deuteranopia
#1a8375
Tritanopia
#6e6e6e
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
4.54:1
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
4.62:1

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