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Abundant Conifer

#56a154
Notes

Abundant Conifer (#56A154) 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 (118°, 31%, 48%) 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
#56a154
RGB
rgb(86, 161, 84)
HSL
hsl(118, 31%, 48%)
HWB
hwb(118 33% 37%)
OKLCH
oklch(64.2% 0.134 143.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4098 0.6243 0.3625)
HSV
hsv(118, 48%, 63%)
LAB
lab(59.99% -39.43 32.90)
LCH
lch(59.99% 51.35 140.16)
CMYK
cmyk(47%, 0%, 48%, 37%)

Etymology

Abundant
adjective

Latin abundāre, to overflow — present-participle of abound. As a color modifier, abundant implies a saturated-and-plentiful quality where the hue carries surplus visual richness beyond minimum requirement. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to plentiful 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.

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.

#56a154
Original
#a4954e
Protanopia
#998e59
Deuteranopia
#4d9d8f
Tritanopia
#8b8b8b
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
3.17:1
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
6.62:1

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
##56A154
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4098 0.6243 0.3625)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.134

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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