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Aflame Verde

#81bc64
Notes

Aflame Verde (#81BC64) 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 (100°, 40%, 56%) 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
#81bc64
RGB
rgb(129, 188, 100)
HSL
hsl(100, 40%, 56%)
HWB
hwb(100 39% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(73.4% 0.134 136.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5562 0.7310 0.4317)
HSV
hsv(100, 47%, 74%)
LAB
lab(70.56% -35.21 38.41)
LCH
lch(70.56% 52.11 132.51)
CMYK
cmyk(31%, 0%, 47%, 26%)

Etymology

Aflame
adjective

Old English on-flamme, on-fire. As a color modifier, aflame implies a saturated-and-burning-bright quality, the bright color of autumn-Maple-and-Oak peak-color deciduous-foliage and Bonfire-Night large-flame fire emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to flaming and blazing in usage.

Verde
noun

Spanish and Italian for green, borrowed into English as part of culinary and art-historical compounds: salsa verde, verde antico, Veronese verde. The color refers to a generic mid-saturation green without strong yellow or blue shift — the green of a Renaissance pigment-shop label, a Tuscan parsley sauce, or the patinated copper of a Roman bronze. Less specific than sage, less cool than mint.

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.

#81bc64
Original
#c2b05d
Protanopia
#b9ab69
Deuteranopia
#80b6a7
Tritanopia
#a9a9a9
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
2.26:1
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
9.31:1

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
##81BC64
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5562 0.7310 0.4317)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.134

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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