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Devout Boom Forest

#2f8b16
Notes

Devout Boom Forest (#2F8B16) 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%, 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
#2f8b16
RGB
rgb(47, 139, 22)
HSL
hsl(107, 73%, 32%)
HWB
hwb(107 9% 45%)
OKLCH
oklch(56.0% 0.171 140.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2917 0.5376 0.1774)
HSV
hsv(107, 84%, 55%)
LAB
lab(50.83% -47.79 49.33)
LCH
lch(50.83% 68.69 134.09)
CMYK
cmyk(66%, 0%, 84%, 45%)

Etymology

Devout
adjective

From the Latin devotus, consecrated — used principally in religious contexts for the dignified deep colors of sacred art and ecclesiastical dress. As a color modifier, devout implies saturation combined with restraint: the deep blues of Marian mantles, the deep reds of cardinals' robes. Sits in the bold-and-formal corner alongside imperial.

Boom
modifier

Dutch boom, tree / spar. As a color modifier, boom implies a horizontal-spar-attached-to-mast quality, the visual register of Tall-Ship-and-yacht-boom hand-cut horizontal-spar-attached-to-mast-foot boom-and-mainsail tall-ship-and-yacht maritime-rigging surfaces under tall-ship-and-yacht boom-and-mainsail maritime light. Sits at the modifier-and-nautical end of the grid, parallel to spar and mast 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.

#2f8b16
Original
#8f7e00
Protanopia
#847625
Deuteranopia
#208676
Tritanopia
#6f6f6f
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).
AA Largeon White
4.35:1
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
4.83:1

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
##2F8B16
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2917 0.5376 0.1774)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.171

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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