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Invigorating Bosco

#7de586
Notes

Invigorating Bosco (#7DE586) 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 (125°, 67%, 69%) 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
#7de586
RGB
rgb(125, 229, 134)
HSL
hsl(125, 67%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(125 49% 10%)
OKLCH
oklch(83.6% 0.163 145.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5907 0.8882 0.5632)
HSV
hsv(125, 45%, 90%)
LAB
lab(82.98% -49.51 37.14)
LCH
lch(82.98% 61.89 143.13)
CMYK
cmyk(45%, 0%, 41%, 10%)

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.

Bosco
noun

The Italian word for forest or woods — used for the deep green of Tuscan bosco (woodland) and the dense forest understory of Apennine national parks. The color refers to a Tuscan bosco canopy in midsummer: a saturated, slightly muted deep green with the matte finish of mature broadleaf canopy.

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.

#7de586
Original
#e8d57f
Protanopia
#d9cb8c
Deuteranopia
#6ee0ce
Tritanopia
#c8c8c8
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
1.56:1
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
13.42:1

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
##7DE586
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5907 0.8882 0.5632)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.163

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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