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Replete Apple

#387d2a
Notes

Replete Apple (#387D2A) is a deep 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 (110°, 50%, 33%) 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
#387d2a
RGB
rgb(56, 125, 42)
HSL
hsl(110, 50%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(110 16% 51%)
OKLCH
oklch(52.6% 0.137 140.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.2912 0.4841 0.2109)
HSV
hsv(110, 66%, 49%)
LAB
lab(46.54% -38.51 37.57)
LCH
lch(46.54% 53.80 135.71)
CMYK
cmyk(55%, 0%, 66%, 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.

Apple
noun

Malus domestica, the temperate fruit selected from a wild ancestor in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan. The color refers to a green apple cultivar like Granny Smith or Crispin: a clean, slightly yellow-shifted green with the polished surface of waxed fruit. Brighter than sage, cooler than lime, with the bracing acidity that distinguishes a hard cooking apple from its sweet eating cousins.

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.

#387d2a
Original
#807220
Protanopia
#776c31
Deuteranopia
#30796c
Tritanopia
#686868
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
5.08:1
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
4.14:1

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
##387D2A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.2912 0.4841 0.2109)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.137

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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