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Jazzed Galicia

#b1df5d
Notes

Jazzed Galicia (#B1DF5D) 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 (81°, 67%, 62%) 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
#b1df5d
RGB
rgb(177, 223, 93)
HSL
hsl(81, 67%, 62%)
HWB
hwb(81 36% 13%)
OKLCH
oklch(84.5% 0.166 126.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7305 0.8693 0.4374)
HSV
hsv(81, 58%, 87%)
LAB
lab(83.40% -34.47 57.59)
LCH
lch(83.40% 67.12 120.90)
CMYK
cmyk(21%, 0%, 58%, 13%)

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.

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.

#b1df5d
Original
#ead24f
Protanopia
#e3cf66
Deuteranopia
#b7d5c3
Tritanopia
#cccccc
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
1.55:1
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
13.58:1

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
##B1DF5D
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7305 0.8693 0.4374)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.166

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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