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Garish Santolina

#77d387
Notes

Garish Santolina (#77D387) 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 (130°, 51%, 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
#77d387
RGB
rgb(119, 211, 135)
HSL
hsl(130, 51%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(130 47% 17%)
OKLCH
oklch(79.0% 0.139 148.2)
HSV
hsv(130, 44%, 83%)
LAB
lab(77.43% -43.42 29.32)
LCH
lch(77.43% 52.39 145.97)
CMYK
cmyk(44%, 0%, 36%, 17%)

Etymology

Garish
adjective

Middle English garen, to stare — adjectival suffix -ish. As a color modifier, garish implies a saturated-and-eye-stunning-and-overdone quality, the bright color of Las-Vegas-and-Coney-Island over-the-top neon-marquee display. Sits at the bright-and-flamboyant end of the grid, parallel to gaudy and lurid in usage.

Santolina
noun

The genus Santolina — Mediterranean cotton-lavender, dry-garden silver-foliage shrubs commonly clipped into low formal hedges. The color refers to mature S. chamaecyparissus foliage: a soft, slightly cool gray-green with the matte velvet finish of needle-shaped silver leaves. Drier than artemisia.

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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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.

#77d387
Original
#d5c582
Protanopia
#c7bc8c
Deuteranopia
#68d0c0
Tritanopia
#bababa
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
1.83:1
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
11.45:1

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