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Flaming Galicia

#9eec73
Notes

Flaming Galicia (#9EEC73) 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 (99°, 76%, 69%) places it in the highly saturated band at a mid 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#9eec73
RGB
rgb(158, 236, 115)
HSL
hsl(99, 76%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(99 45% 7%)
OKLCH
oklch(86.6% 0.173 135.6)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6873 0.9174 0.5092)
HSV
hsv(99, 51%, 93%)
LAB
lab(86.25% -44.83 50.73)
LCH
lch(86.25% 67.70 131.47)
CMYK
cmyk(33%, 0%, 51%, 7%)

Etymology

Flaming
adjective

Old French flamme, flame — present-participle of flame. As a color modifier, flaming implies a saturated-and-fire-and-bright-color quality, the bright color of autumn-Maple-and-Oak deciduous-foliage fall-color and Yule-log fire emission. Sits at the bright-and-warm end of the grid, parallel to fiery and blazing in usage.

Galicia
noun

The wet northwestern Spanish region — and the saturated green of Galician hillsides, tetillas cheese pastures, and the bagpipe-playing Celtic traditions of Atlantic Iberia. Galicia refers to a Galician hillside in late winter: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the matte finish of high-rainfall coastal pasture.

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.

#9eec73
Original
#f3dc68
Protanopia
#e8d57b
Deuteranopia
#9ce4d0
Tritanopia
#d3d3d3
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
1.43:1
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
14.70:1

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
##9EEC73
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6873 0.9174 0.5092)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.173

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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