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Vibrant Verde

#68bd5d
Notes

Vibrant Verde (#68BD5D) 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 (113°, 42%, 55%) 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
#68bd5d
RGB
rgb(104, 189, 93)
HSL
hsl(113, 42%, 55%)
HWB
hwb(113 36% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.2% 0.156 141.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4892 0.7331 0.4085)
HSV
hsv(113, 51%, 74%)
LAB
lab(69.56% -44.71 40.38)
LCH
lch(69.56% 60.25 137.91)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 0%, 51%, 26%)

Etymology

Vibrant
adjective

From the Latin vibrare, to shake — used as a color word since the seventeenth century for hues that read as alive and resonant. Vibrant orange, vibrant green: the implication is saturation combined with the optical impression of slight motion or energy. Sits at the bright-bucket center alongside vivid and lively.

Verde
noun

Spanish and Italian for green, borrowed into English as part of culinary and art-historical compounds: salsa verde, verde antico, Veronese verde. The color refers to a generic mid-saturation green without strong yellow or blue shift — the green of a Renaissance pigment-shop label, a Tuscan parsley sauce, or the patinated copper of a Roman bronze. Less specific than sage, less cool than mint.

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.

#68bd5d
Original
#c1af55
Protanopia
#b5a764
Deuteranopia
#5fb8a7
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
2.33:1
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
9.03:1

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
##68BD5D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4892 0.7331 0.4085)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.156

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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