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Brimming Clover

#379b16
Notes

Brimming Clover (#379B16) is a true 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 (105°, 75%, 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
#379b16
RGB
rgb(55, 155, 22)
HSL
hsl(105, 75%, 35%)
HWB
hwb(105 9% 39%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.7% 0.185 139.8)
HSV
hsv(105, 86%, 61%)
LAB
lab(56.40% -51.57 54.45)
LCH
lch(56.40% 74.99 133.44)
CMYK
cmyk(65%, 0%, 86%, 39%)

Etymology

Brimming
adjective

Old English brymme, brim / edge — present-participle of brim. As a color modifier, brimming implies a saturated-and-overflowing quality where the hue spills past the edge of its visual container with rich pigmentation. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to replete and abundant.

Clover
noun

The genus Trifolium, the small leguminous plants that fix nitrogen into pasture soils and feed honeybees through summer. The color refers to fresh red-clover leaves at full bloom: a saturated, slightly yellow-shifted green with the matte finish of pubescent leaf surface. Brighter than alfalfa, lighter than spinach, with the agricultural weight of a plant essential to pre-industrial European farming.

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.

#379b16
Original
#a08c00
Protanopia
#948428
Deuteranopia
#289684
Tritanopia
#7c7c7c
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
3.58:1
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
5.86:1

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