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Wired Glade

#99f29d
Notes

Wired Glade (#99F29D) 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 (123°, 77%, 77%) 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
#99f29d
RGB
rgb(153, 242, 157)
HSL
hsl(123, 77%, 77%)
HWB
hwb(123 60% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.4% 0.144 145.2)
HSV
hsv(123, 37%, 95%)
LAB
lab(88.31% -43.38 32.83)
LCH
lch(88.31% 54.40 142.88)
CMYK
cmyk(37%, 0%, 35%, 5%)

Etymology

Wired
adjective

Old English wīr, wire — past-participle of wire. As a color modifier, wired implies a saturated-and-electrical-charged-and-active quality, the bright color of Tesla-coil-and-Van-de-Graaff high-voltage atmospheric-electrical emission. Sits at the bright-and-active end of the grid, parallel to charged and electrified in usage.

Glade
noun

An open clearing in a forest — often grassy, where sunlight reaches the ground unobstructed. The Old English glæd (bright) names the brightness of the clearing relative to its surrounding shade. Glade color refers to a sunlit forest clearing in summer: a saturated, slightly yellow-green with the matte finish of sun-bright grass-and-fern. Lighter than bosco.

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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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.

#99f29d
Original
#f5e397
Protanopia
#e8daa2
Deuteranopia
#8eeedc
Tritanopia
#d9d9d9
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
1.35:1
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
15.54:1

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