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Combustive Bali

#98bc59
Notes

Combustive Bali (#98BC59) 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 (82°, 42%, 54%) 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
#98bc59
RGB
rgb(152, 188, 89)
HSL
hsl(82, 42%, 54%)
HWB
hwb(82 35% 26%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.7% 0.134 126.0)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6242 0.7331 0.3998)
HSV
hsv(82, 53%, 74%)
LAB
lab(71.80% -27.97 45.63)
LCH
lch(71.80% 53.52 121.51)
CMYK
cmyk(19%, 0%, 53%, 26%)

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.

Bali
noun

The Indonesian island — and the saturated green of Bali's terraced rice paddies (sawah) at the height of the wet season. Bali color refers to a Balinese terraced paddy in March: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the optical brightness of flooded young rice plants.

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.

#98bc59
Original
#c5b150
Protanopia
#c0af5f
Deuteranopia
#9db4a6
Tritanopia
#adadad
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
2.17:1
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
9.67:1

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
##98BC59
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6242 0.7331 0.3998)
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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