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Neon Grove

#69ce6a
Notes

Neon Grove (#69CE6A) 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 (121°, 51%, 61%) 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
#69ce6a
RGB
rgb(105, 206, 106)
HSL
hsl(121, 51%, 61%)
HWB
hwb(121 41% 19%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.7% 0.167 143.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5125 0.7986 0.4594)
HSV
hsv(121, 49%, 81%)
LAB
lab(74.94% -49.68 40.65)
LCH
lch(74.94% 64.19 140.71)
CMYK
cmyk(49%, 0%, 49%, 19%)

Etymology

Neon
adjective

Greek néon, new — element-name (atomic-number 10), discovered by William Ramsay in 1898. As a color modifier, neon implies a saturated-and-electric-glow quality, the bright color of Las-Vegas-and-Times-Square neon-marquee gas-discharge-tube emission. Sits at the bright-and-electric end of the grid, parallel to electric and fluorescent in usage.

Grove
noun

A small group of trees — often a deliberately planted cluster of Olea, Citrus, or Quercus in Mediterranean cultural landscape. Grove color refers to a Provençal olive grove canopy: a soft, slightly muted gray-green with the matte finish of mature olive 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.

#69ce6a
Original
#d2be62
Protanopia
#c4b571
Deuteranopia
#5bc9b7
Tritanopia
#b1b1b1
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
1.97:1
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
10.64:1

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
##69CE6A
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5125 0.7986 0.4594)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.167

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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