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Spotlit Kohlrabi

#54b725
Notes

Spotlit Kohlrabi (#54B725) is a true green with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (101°, 66%, 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
#54b725
RGB
rgb(84, 183, 37)
HSL
hsl(101, 66%, 43%)
HWB
hwb(101 15% 28%)
OKLCH
oklch(69.3% 0.199 138.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4327 0.7089 0.2544)
HSV
hsv(101, 80%, 72%)
LAB
lab(66.43% -53.41 59.87)
LCH
lch(66.43% 80.23 131.73)
CMYK
cmyk(54%, 0%, 80%, 28%)

Etymology

Spotlit
adjective

English compound spot + lit — past-participle of spotlight. As a color modifier, spotlit implies a saturated-and-narrow-beam-illuminated quality, the bright color of theatrical-stage-and-museum-display directed-spotlight focused-beam illumination. Sits at the bright-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to sunlit and brilliant in usage.

Kohlrabi
noun

Brassica oleracea var. gongylodes — the swollen-stem cabbage variety used in German and Indian cooking. Kohlrabi color refers to a fresh raw kohlrabi bulb after its leaves are removed: a soft, slightly cool pale green with the matte finish of cruciferous root-stem.

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.

#54b725
Original
#bda700
Protanopia
#b09e36
Deuteranopia
#4cb09c
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
2.57:1
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
8.18:1

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
##54B725
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4327 0.7089 0.2544)
P3 has visible headroomOKLCH chroma 0.199

This color is chromatic enough that authoring it as P3 native (instead of clamping to sRGB) gives a perceptibly more saturated render on wide-gamut displays — modern Macs, iPhones, iPads, and most recent OLED laptops.

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