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Combustive Sirocco Kiwi

#3eae30
Notes

Combustive Sirocco Kiwi (#3EAE30) is a true green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (113°, 57%, 44%) 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
#3eae30
RGB
rgb(62, 174, 48)
HSL
hsl(113, 57%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(113 19% 32%)
OKLCH
oklch(66.2% 0.192 141.5)
HSV
hsv(113, 72%, 68%)
LAB
lab(62.93% -54.95 52.51)
LCH
lch(62.93% 76.00 136.30)
CMYK
cmyk(64%, 0%, 72%, 32%)

Etymology

Combustive
adjective

Latin combūstus, burnt — adjectival suffix -ive, derived from com-burere (to burn-up). As a color modifier, combustive implies a saturated-and-burning-active quality, the bright color of blast-furnace-and-foundry combustion-chamber emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and blazing in usage.

Sirocco
modifier

Arabic sharq, eastern-or-Saharan-wind. As a color modifier, sirocco implies a hot-Saharan-and-Mediterranean-wind quality, the visual register of Saharan-and-Sicilian-and-Maltese-sirocco hand-hot-Saharan-and-Mediterranean-wind Saharan-and-Sicilian-and-Maltese-sirocco-and-North-African sirocco-and-hot-Saharan-and-Mediterranean-wind surfaces under Saharan-and-Sicilian-and-Maltese-sirocco-and-North-African Sahara-and-Sicily-and-Malta-and-Tunis hot-North-African-wind-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to mistral and zephyr in usage.

Kiwi
noun

Actinidia deliciosa — originally the Chinese gooseberry before New Zealand growers rebranded it for export in the 1950s. The color refers to the cross-section of a ripe green-fleshed kiwifruit: a saturated, slightly yellow-shifted green with the optical brightness of small black seeds suspended in translucent flesh. Brighter than apple, sharper than pear, with the instantly recognizable graphic quality of the cut fruit.

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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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.

#3eae30
Original
#b29e1a
Protanopia
#a5953d
Deuteranopia
#2aa995
Tritanopia
#8d8d8d
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).
Failon White
2.88:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
7.30:1

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