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Vivid Alcove Jade

#4bb268
Notes

Vivid Alcove Jade (#4BB268) 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 (137°, 41%, 50%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#4bb268
RGB
rgb(75, 178, 104)
HSL
hsl(137, 41%, 50%)
HWB
hwb(137 29% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(68.4% 0.145 150.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4057 0.6892 0.4360)
HSV
hsv(137, 58%, 70%)
LAB
lab(65.23% -46.32 29.08)
LCH
lch(65.23% 54.69 147.88)
CMYK
cmyk(58%, 0%, 42%, 30%)

Etymology

Vivid
adjective

From the Latin vividus, full of life — used as a color modifier since the late sixteenth century for hues that read as luminous and saturated. Vivid red, vivid blue: the implication is that the color appears almost lit from within, with the optical brightness of a high-chroma surface in good light. Sits at the bright-bucket center alongside bright and electric.

Alcove
modifier

Arabic al-qubba, the-vault. As a color modifier, alcove implies a recessed-bedroom-or-sitting-area quality, the visual register of English-and-French-Country-House-alcove hand-built recessed-and-vaulted bedroom-or-sitting-area-recess-and-window-seat architectural surfaces under English-and-French-Country-House alcove-recess light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to niche and atrium in usage.

Jade
noun

Two minerals share the name: nephrite (a calcium-magnesium silicate, dominant in Chinese jade) and jadeite (a sodium-aluminum silicate, dominant in Burmese imperial jade). Both have been carved in China since at least the Neolithic. The color refers to high-quality apple-green jadeite: a saturated, slightly muted yellow-green with the waxy translucency of polished stone. Cooler than apple, warmer than mint, with the millennial cultural weight of yu, the stone of heaven.

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.

#4bb268
Original
#b3a463
Protanopia
#a59b6d
Deuteranopia
#30afa0
Tritanopia
#979797
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
2.67:1
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
7.87:1

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
##4BB268
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4057 0.6892 0.4360)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.145

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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