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Jazzed Genever

#63bf5d
Notes

Jazzed Genever (#63BF5D) 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 (116°, 43%, 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
#63bf5d
RGB
rgb(99, 191, 93)
HSL
hsl(116, 43%, 56%)
HWB
hwb(116 36% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.5% 0.161 142.5)
HSV
hsv(116, 51%, 75%)
LAB
lab(69.97% -47.01 40.84)
LCH
lch(69.97% 62.27 139.02)
CMYK
cmyk(48%, 0%, 51%, 25%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Genever
noun

The Dutch juniper-flavored spirit — the predecessor of English gin, distilled in Netherlands and Belgium since the seventeenth century. Genever color refers to a fresh-poured jonge genever in a tulip glass: a soft, slightly cool pale green-yellow with the optical clarity of malt-wine-and-juniper spirit.

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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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.

#63bf5d
Original
#c3b054
Protanopia
#b6a864
Deuteranopia
#58baa8
Tritanopia
#a4a4a4
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
2.30:1
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
9.14:1

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