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Assured Uaine

#4b9e51
Notes

Assured Uaine (#4B9E51) 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 (124°, 36%, 46%) 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
#4b9e51
RGB
rgb(75, 158, 81)
HSL
hsl(124, 36%, 46%)
HWB
hwb(124 29% 38%)
OKLCH
oklch(62.8% 0.138 145.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.3789 0.6121 0.3507)
HSV
hsv(124, 53%, 62%)
LAB
lab(58.55% -41.77 32.56)
LCH
lch(58.55% 52.96 142.06)
CMYK
cmyk(53%, 0%, 49%, 38%)

Etymology

Assured
adjective

Old French aseürer, to give assurance — past-participle of assure. As a color modifier, assured implies a saturated-and-confident quality where the hue carries unwavering certainty about its own visual identity. Sits at the bold-and-confident end of the grid, parallel to certain and poised.

Uaine
noun

The Irish word for green — used in Éire uaine (green Ireland) and the Connacht uaine of Connaught county banners. Uaine names the saturated grass-green of Atlantic-coast Irish hillsides. The color refers to an Irish hillside in May: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the matte finish of well-watered Atlantic pasture.

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.

#4b9e51
Original
#a0914b
Protanopia
#958a56
Deuteranopia
#3d9a8c
Tritanopia
#878787
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
3.33:1
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
6.31:1

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
##4B9E51
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.3789 0.6121 0.3507)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.138

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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