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Plentiful Conifer

#4ba337
Notes

Plentiful Conifer (#4BA337) 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 (109°, 50%, 43%) 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
#4ba337
RGB
rgb(75, 163, 55)
HSL
hsl(109, 50%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(109 22% 36%)
OKLCH
oklch(63.8% 0.168 140.2)
HSV
hsv(109, 66%, 64%)
LAB
lab(59.86% -46.99 46.56)
LCH
lch(59.86% 66.15 135.26)
CMYK
cmyk(54%, 0%, 66%, 36%)

Etymology

Plentiful
adjective

Old French plentif, abundant — adjectival suffix -ful, derived from Latin plēnitās (fullness). As a color modifier, plentiful implies a saturated-and-generous quality where the hue carries rich visual abundance without restraint. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and bountiful.

Conifer
noun

Coniferales, the cone-bearing trees that dominate boreal and high-altitude forests across both hemispheres. The color refers to the average reflectance of a mid-summer conifer canopy: a deep, slightly muted green with the matte finish of resinous needle foliage. Darker than meadow, cooler than basil, with the structural weight of a forest type that traps more carbon per hectare than almost any other.

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.

#4ba337
Original
#a79529
Protanopia
#9c8d40
Deuteranopia
#419e8d
Tritanopia
#888888
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
3.19:1
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
6.59:1

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