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Celadon Dusk Pure
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Celadon Dusk Pure

Green · Hue 145
Metrics
S 92% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.2:1AA Largeon black6.6:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Dusk Pure (#07A649) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 92% saturation, 34% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-celadon-dusk-pure: #07A649;
  --colorarchive-celadon-dusk-pure-hsl: hsl(145, 92%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-dusk-pure-rgb: rgb(7, 166, 73);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

PrestigiousTimelessAuthoritative
Common in

Banking · Law Firms · Luxury Real Estate

Pairs well with

Gold, ivory, or warm white for classic elegance

Design tip

Excellent for dark mode themes and premium interfaces. Deep green with gold accents creates an instantly luxurious feel.

Cultural context ▶

Deep greens like forest and hunter green evoke tradition, wealth, and the British countryside. Common in Ivy League branding.

Color Origins

Green family

The color of growth, currency, and long-running brands.

Heritage

Verdigris (copper acetate) gave medieval manuscripts many of their greens; it was unstable, eating through parchment over centuries. Terre verte (green earth) was used for under-painting flesh in the Italian tradition. Scheele's green (1775) and Paris green, arsenic compounds widely used in the 19th century, killed an unknown number of workers and Victorian children before viridian and phthalo greens replaced them. Modern green pigments are remarkably stable.

Across cultures

Green is closely associated with Islam — it appears on the flags of many Muslim-majority nations and on the Green Dome in Medina. In Ireland green is national identity, partly through the shamrock and partly through the political binary with orange. In Old Japanese a single word, ao, covered both blue and green; the 'go' traffic light is still officially ao, and since 1973 has been set to a bluish shade of green. Across many cultures green simultaneously means growth, fertility, envy, and the supernatural.

In the wild

Starbucks moved its logo from the original 1971 brown to green in 1987. John Deere's green and yellow has marked its machines for more than a century. U.S. banknotes have been printed in green since the 1860s; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing says no one can say for certain why green was first chosen, but it kept the color for the 1929 small-size notes because the pigment was plentiful, durable, and associated with the government's stable credit. WhatsApp, Spotify, and Heineken all anchor on green. Hospital scrubs were originally white and moved to green and teal; a common explanation is that green hides the green after-images surgeons see on white surfaces after staring at red tissue.

How it reads

Green sits near the peak of the eye's daylight sensitivity — the photopic luminosity curve peaks at 555nm. At low saturation it reads as natural, calm, premium (sage, olive). At high saturation it reads as urgent or playful. It carries one of the strongest semantic loads in product design: 'success', 'go', 'natural', 'safe'.

This particular tone

A jewel tone — saturated and dark at once. This is the register of velvet, deep enamel, and old-world luxury.

Lightness band: At this depth the hue starts behaving like a neutral — it can substitute for black in many contexts while still carrying a faint chromatic temperature. It pairs especially well with off-whites and warm metallics.

Saturation band: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #07A649.

  • OpenAIaccent
    ChatGPT Green · #10A37F
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  • Spotifyprimary
    Spotify Green · #1DB954
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #07A649.

  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
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  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

UI DesignColor in Financial UI: Trust, Data Visualization, and the Red/Green ConventionColor History1970s Earth Tone Colors: Harvest Gold, Avocado Green & Burnt Orange PalettesColor TheoryColor and Typography Pairing: How Weight and Typeface Affect Perceived Color

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Celadon Velvet Pure
#09CE5B · hsl(145, 92%, 42%)
Darker companion
Celadon Shadow Pure
#06893C · hsl(145, 92%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Dusk Pure
#A60771 · hsl(320, 92%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Dusk Pure
#07A68C · hsl(170, 92%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Dusk Pure
#07A607 · hsl(120, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Dusk Pure
#3C07A6 · hsl(260, 92%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Dusk Pure
#A64907 · hsl(25, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Dusk Pure
#8C07A6 · hsl(290, 92%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Dusk Pure
#A60707 · hsl(0, 92%, 34%)
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Base: Celadon Dusk Pure #07A649
Lighter companion: Celadon Velvet Pure #09CE5B
Darker companion: Celadon Shadow Pure #06893C
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Dusk Pure #A60771
Analogous lead: Lagoon Dusk Pure #07A68C
Analogous echo: Emerald Dusk Pure #07A607
Triadic +120°: Orchid Dusk Pure #3C07A6
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Dusk Pure #A64907
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Dusk Pure #8C07A6
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Dusk Pure #A60707

Compare

See how Celadon Dusk Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsCeladon Velvet PurevsCeladon Shadow PurevsRose Dusk PurevsLagoon Dusk PurevsEmerald Dusk PurevsOrchid Dusk Pure

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

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Nearby match
Celadon Dusk Bright
#0EA04B · hsl(145, 84%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Pure
#06893C · hsl(145, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Pure
#07A63C · hsl(140, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Jade Dusk Pure
#07A657 · hsl(150, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Velvet Pure
#09CE5B · hsl(145, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Bright
#0B833D · hsl(145, 84%, 28%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AA5:1
Rose Ink Faint
#272025
AA5:1
Rose Ink Muted
#2A1D26
AA5.1:1
Rose Ink Dust
#2D1A27
AA5.1:1
Rose Ink Soft
#301828
AA5.2:1
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A
AA5.1:1
Rose Ink Vivid
#3E092D

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6A6070
Protanopia
#717269
Tritanopia
#287C80
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Celadon Dusk Faint#4E5F55 · hsl(145, 10%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Muted#476654 · hsl(145, 18%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Dust#406D53 · hsl(145, 26%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Soft#397452 · hsl(145, 34%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Clear#28864F · hsl(145, 54%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Vivid#17974C · hsl(145, 74%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Bright#0EA04B · hsl(145, 84%, 34%)Celadon Dusk Pure#07A649 · hsl(145, 92%, 34%)
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