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Holographic Borneo

#57c55e
Notes

Holographic Borneo (#57C55E) is a true green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (124°, 49%, 56%) 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
#57c55e
RGB
rgb(87, 197, 94)
HSL
hsl(124, 49%, 56%)
HWB
hwb(124 34% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(73.6% 0.174 144.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4584 0.7630 0.4155)
HSV
hsv(124, 56%, 77%)
LAB
lab(71.39% -52.48 41.99)
LCH
lch(71.39% 67.21 141.34)
CMYK
cmyk(56%, 0%, 52%, 23%)

Etymology

Holographic
adjective

Greek hólos (whole) and graphé (writing) — adjectival suffix -ic. As a color modifier, holographic implies a saturated-and-multi-angle-shifting quality, the bright color of holographic-credit-card and trading-card dichroic-film 3D-image-reflection. Sits at the bright-and-shifting end of the grid, parallel to iridescent and prismatic in usage.

Borneo
noun

The Southeast Asian island — and the saturated deep green of Borneo rainforest, home to one of the world's three remaining great-ape populations (Pongo pygmaeus, the Bornean orangutan). Borneo color refers to a Sarawak jungle canopy: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the matte finish of dense tropical foliage.

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.

#57c55e
Original
#c8b555
Protanopia
#baab65
Deuteranopia
#43c0ad
Tritanopia
#a6a6a6
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
2.20:1
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
9.55:1

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
##57C55E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4584 0.7630 0.4155)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.174

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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