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Combustive Prehnite

#8ab728
Notes

Combustive Prehnite (#8AB728) is a true lime 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 (79°, 64%, 44%) 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#8ab728
RGB
rgb(138, 183, 40)
HSL
hsl(79, 64%, 44%)
HWB
hwb(79 16% 28%)
OKLCH
oklch(72.1% 0.170 126.2)
HSV
hsv(79, 78%, 72%)
LAB
lab(69.06% -34.73 62.36)
LCH
lch(69.06% 71.38 119.12)
CMYK
cmyk(25%, 0%, 78%, 28%)

Etymology

Combustive
adjective

Latin combūstus, burnt — adjectival suffix -ive, derived from com-burere (to burn-up). As a color modifier, combustive implies a saturated-and-burning-active quality, the bright color of blast-furnace-and-foundry combustion-chamber emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and blazing in usage.

Prehnite
noun

A calcium-aluminum silicate gem — yellow-green, often translucent, mined principally in Australia, Mali, and Scotland. The color refers to a polished Australian prehnite cabochon: a soft, slightly cool yellow-green with the cloudy translucency of low-grade gem material. Cooler than peridot.

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.

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Original
#c1aa00
Protanopia
#bba837
Deuteranopia
#90ae9d
Tritanopia
#a3a3a3
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
2.36:1
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
8.88:1

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