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Easy Verdolaga

#b1ca94
Notes

Easy Verdolaga (#B1CA94) 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 (88°, 34%, 69%) 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
#b1ca94
RGB
rgb(177, 202, 148)
HSL
hsl(88, 34%, 69%)
HWB
hwb(88 58% 21%)
OKLCH
oklch(80.7% 0.078 128.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7128 0.7892 0.6012)
HSV
hsv(88, 27%, 79%)
LAB
lab(78.30% -17.94 24.25)
LCH
lch(78.30% 30.17 126.50)
CMYK
cmyk(12%, 0%, 27%, 21%)

Etymology

Easy
adjective

Old French aisié, comfortable, at rest — used as a color modifier since the eighteenth century for hues that read as visually undemanding. Easy beige, easy gray: moderate saturation combined with optical restfulness. Sits at the crisp-bucket center alongside calm and settled.

Verdolaga
noun

Portulaca oleracea, the Mediterranean and South American purslane — a leafy succulent eaten as a salad green and stewed dish across Spain, Mexico, and Greece. Verdolaga color refers to fresh purslane leaves in a salad bowl: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the satin finish of succulent leaf tissue.

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.

#b1ca94
Original
#d0c391
Protanopia
#ccc196
Deuteranopia
#b4c5bc
Tritanopia
#c1c1c1
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
1.79:1
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
11.75:1

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
##B1CA94
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7128 0.7892 0.6012)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.078

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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