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Invigorating Glassy

#72db91
Notes

Invigorating Glassy (#72DB91) 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 (138°, 59%, 65%) 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 magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#72db91
RGB
rgb(114, 219, 145)
HSL
hsl(138, 59%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(138 45% 14%)
OKLCH
oklch(80.9% 0.144 151.6)
HSV
hsv(138, 48%, 86%)
LAB
lab(79.77% -46.49 27.25)
LCH
lch(79.77% 53.89 149.63)
CMYK
cmyk(48%, 0%, 34%, 14%)

Etymology

Invigorating
adjective

Latin vigor, vigor — present-participle of invigorate, sharing root with vigil (watchfulness). As a color modifier, invigorating implies a saturated-and-life-giving-and-energizing quality where the hue increases visual-and-physical vitality. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to stimulating and bracing in usage.

Glassy
noun

A descriptor for very calm water surface — used in maritime vocabulary for sea conditions when wind is below 1 knot and the surface reflects like polished glass. Glassy color refers to a glassy-calm tropical lagoon at dawn: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the mirror-finish optical complexity of unbroken water.

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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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.

#72db91
Original
#dccc8c
Protanopia
#ccc296
Deuteranopia
#5cd8c8
Tritanopia
#bfbfbf
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
1.71:1
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
12.26:1

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