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Spotless Borneo

#69b064
Notes

Spotless Borneo (#69B064) 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°, 32%, 54%) 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
#69b064
RGB
rgb(105, 176, 100)
HSL
hsl(116, 32%, 54%)
HWB
hwb(116 39% 31%)
OKLCH
oklch(69.2% 0.130 142.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.4769 0.6832 0.4234)
HSV
hsv(116, 43%, 69%)
LAB
lab(65.73% -37.79 32.05)
LCH
lch(65.73% 49.55 139.70)
CMYK
cmyk(40%, 0%, 43%, 31%)

Etymology

Spotless
adjective

Old English spott (spot) plus suffix -less. As a color modifier, spotless implies a clear-and-unmarked quality where the hue carries no contaminating speck or stain. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to pristine and unblemished in usage.

Borneo
noun

The Southeast Asian island — and the saturated deep green of Borneo rainforest, home to one of the world's three remaining great-ape populations (Pongo pygmaeus, the Bornean orangutan). Borneo color refers to a Sarawak jungle canopy: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the matte finish of dense tropical foliage.

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.

#69b064
Original
#b3a45e
Protanopia
#a99d69
Deuteranopia
#62ac9e
Tritanopia
#9b9b9b
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
2.63:1
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
7.99:1

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
##69B064
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.4769 0.6832 0.4234)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.130

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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