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Jazzed Vine

#8fbf25
Notes

Jazzed Vine (#8FBF25) is a true lime with a vibrant character. It holds its own as a focal accent, carrying visual weight without tipping into neon territory. Its HSL profile (79°, 68%, 45%) 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
#8fbf25
RGB
rgb(143, 191, 37)
HSL
hsl(79, 68%, 45%)
HWB
hwb(79 15% 25%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.4% 0.179 126.4)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5999 0.7437 0.2700)
HSV
hsv(79, 81%, 75%)
LAB
lab(71.71% -36.54 65.76)
LCH
lch(71.71% 75.23 119.06)
CMYK
cmyk(25%, 0%, 81%, 25%)

Etymology

Jazzed
adjective

American slang jazz, liveliness — past-participle of jazz. As a color modifier, jazzed implies a saturated-and-excited-and-active quality, the bright color of American-Jazz-Age poster-and-album-cover saturated-and-rhythmic graphic-design. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to caffeinated and wired in usage.

Vine
noun

Generic for any climbing plant — particularly the grapevine Vitis vinifera whose leaves are central to Mediterranean wine viticulture and dolma cooking. Vine color refers to fresh grape-vine leaves in early summer: a saturated, slightly cool deep yellow-green with the matte finish of vine leaf surface.

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.

#8fbf25
Original
#c9b200
Protanopia
#c3af36
Deuteranopia
#95b6a3
Tritanopia
#aaaaaa
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
2.18:1
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
9.65:1

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
##8FBF25
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5999 0.7437 0.2700)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.179

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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