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Inflamed Genever

#7acc60
Notes

Inflamed Genever (#7ACC60) 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 (106°, 51%, 59%) 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
#7acc60
RGB
rgb(122, 204, 96)
HSL
hsl(106, 51%, 59%)
HWB
hwb(106 38% 20%)
OKLCH
oklch(76.9% 0.165 138.7)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5538 0.7919 0.4283)
HSV
hsv(106, 53%, 80%)
LAB
lab(74.93% -45.09 45.63)
LCH
lch(74.93% 64.14 134.66)
CMYK
cmyk(40%, 0%, 53%, 20%)

Etymology

Inflamed
adjective

Latin inflammātus, set on fire — past-participle of inflame. As a color modifier, inflamed implies a saturated-and-irritated-hot quality, the bright color of sun-burnt-skin and autumn-leaf high-anthocyanin pigmentation. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and flaming in usage.

Genever
noun

The Dutch juniper-flavored spirit — the predecessor of English gin, distilled in Netherlands and Belgium since the seventeenth century. Genever color refers to a fresh-poured jonge genever in a tulip glass: a soft, slightly cool pale green-yellow with the optical clarity of malt-wine-and-juniper spirit.

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.

#7acc60
Original
#d2bd56
Protanopia
#c6b667
Deuteranopia
#75c6b4
Tritanopia
#b3b3b3
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
10.63:1

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
##7ACC60
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5538 0.7919 0.4283)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.165

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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