Sparkling Pixie Chartreuse
Sparkling Pixie Chartreuse (#68B93A) is a true lime 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 (98°, 52%, 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Old English spearca, spark — present-participle of sparkle. As a color modifier, sparkling implies a saturated-and-multi-point-reflective-and-effervescent quality, the bright color of Champagne-and-Prosecco effervescent-wine carbonation-bubble-light reflection. Sits at the bright-and-reflective end of the grid, parallel to glittering and fizzy in usage.
English Cornish piskie, small-mischievous-fairy. As a color modifier, pixie implies a small-mischievous-Cornish-Devon-fairy quality, the visual register of Cornish-and-Devon-pixie-folk hand-small-mischievous-Cornish-Devon-fairy Cornish-and-Devon-pixie-folk-and-moorland-fairy pixie-and-small-mischievous-fairy surfaces under Cornish-and-Devon-pixie-folk-and-moorland-fairy Bodmin-Moor-and-Dartmoor-stone-circle moorland-fairy-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to sprite and gnome in usage.
The yellow-green French liqueur made by Carthusian monks at the Grande Chartreuse monastery since 1737, from a recipe of 130 herbs known to only two living monks at any time. The color is the base spirit chartreuse jaune in a glass: a saturated, slightly green yellow that's brighter than lemon and warmer than lime. The liqueur gave the color its name, not the other way around.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
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.