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Assured Aventurine

#519511
Notes

Assured Aventurine (#519511) is a deep lime with a jewel character. It carries the deep, saturated richness of a gemstone. Authoritative and slightly formal, it works well for type and heavy UI elements. Its HSL profile (91°, 80%, 33%) places it in the highly saturated band at a dark lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#519511
RGB
rgb(81, 149, 17)
HSL
hsl(91, 80%, 33%)
HWB
hwb(91 7% 42%)
OKLCH
oklch(60.1% 0.168 134.6)
HSV
hsv(91, 89%, 58%)
LAB
lab(55.36% -42.03 55.07)
LCH
lch(55.36% 69.28 127.35)
CMYK
cmyk(46%, 0%, 89%, 42%)

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.

Aventurine
noun

A green variety of quartz with mica or chrome-mica inclusions that produce a metallic shimmer (aventurescence). Mined principally in India, Brazil, and Russia. The color refers to a polished green aventurine cabochon: a soft, slightly muted yellow-green with the optical complexity of internal mica plates.

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.

#519511
Original
#9b8800
Protanopia
#928324
Deuteranopia
#508f7e
Tritanopia
#7d7d7d
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
3.71:1
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
5.66:1

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