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Aglow Verdelite

#8ef687
Notes

Aglow Verdelite (#8EF687) is a soft 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 (116°, 86%, 75%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#8ef687
RGB
rgb(142, 246, 135)
HSL
hsl(116, 86%, 75%)
HWB
hwb(116 53% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.4% 0.177 142.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6546 0.9547 0.5766)
HSV
hsv(116, 45%, 96%)
LAB
lab(88.64% -51.54 44.03)
LCH
lch(88.64% 67.79 139.50)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 0%, 45%, 4%)

Etymology

Aglow
adjective

Old English on-glōwan, on-glow — sharing root with glow and gleam. As a color modifier, aglow implies a saturated-and-lit-from-within quality, the bright color of fireplace-and-jack-o-lantern interior-glow-lit warm-light emission against ambient darkness. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to glowing and aflame in usage.

Verdelite
noun

A trade synonym for green tourmaline — used to distinguish chromium-rich tourmaline from rubellite (red) and indicolite (blue). Mined principally in Brazil, Mozambique, and Maine. The color refers to a faceted Brazilian verdelite: a saturated, slightly cool deep green with the gem's signature internal warmth.

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.

#8ef687
Original
#fbe47e
Protanopia
#ecdb8e
Deuteranopia
#83f0dc
Tritanopia
#d8d8d8
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
1.34:1
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
15.68:1

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
##8EF687
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6546 0.9547 0.5766)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.177

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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