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Charged Apple

#67b216
Notes

Charged Apple (#67B216) is a true lime 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 (89°, 78%, 39%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#67b216
RGB
rgb(103, 178, 22)
HSL
hsl(89, 78%, 39%)
HWB
hwb(89 9% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(68.8% 0.189 133.6)
HSV
hsv(89, 88%, 70%)
LAB
lab(65.58% -46.23 63.17)
LCH
lch(65.58% 78.28 126.20)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 0%, 88%, 30%)

Etymology

Charged
adjective

Old French chargier, to load — past-participle of charge, sharing root with cargo. As a color modifier, charged implies a saturated-and-electrically-loaded quality where the hue carries visual potential-energy. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to electrified and energetic in usage.

Apple
noun

Malus domestica, the temperate fruit selected from a wild ancestor in the Tian Shan mountains of Kazakhstan. The color refers to a green apple cultivar like Granny Smith or Crispin: a clean, slightly yellow-shifted green with the polished surface of waxed fruit. Brighter than sage, cooler than lime, with the bracing acidity that distinguishes a hard cooking apple from its sweet eating cousins.

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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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.

#67b216
Original
#b9a300
Protanopia
#af9d2c
Deuteranopia
#67ab97
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
2.64:1
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
7.96:1

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