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Jazzed Parakeet

#65ad21
Notes

Jazzed Parakeet (#65AD21) is a true lime with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (91°, 68%, 40%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#65ad21
RGB
rgb(101, 173, 33)
HSL
hsl(91, 68%, 40%)
HWB
hwb(91 13% 32%)
OKLCH
oklch(67.5% 0.180 133.9)
HSV
hsv(91, 81%, 68%)
LAB
lab(63.97% -44.43 59.00)
LCH
lch(63.97% 73.86 126.98)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 0%, 81%, 32%)

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.

Parakeet
noun

The smaller members of the parrot family — particularly Melopsittacus undulatus, the Australian budgerigar that became the world's most-kept pet bird. The color refers to a typical green-form budgerigar's plumage: a saturated, slightly yellow-shifted green with the matte finish of carotenoid-and-structural feather color.

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.

#65ad21
Original
#b49f00
Protanopia
#aa9931
Deuteranopia
#64a694
Tritanopia
#949494
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
2.78:1
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
7.55:1

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