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Celadon Radiant Faint
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Celadon Radiant Faint

Green · Hue 145
Metrics
S 10% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.2:1AA Largeon black6.5:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Radiant Faint (#7E9588) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 10% saturation, 54% 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-radiant-faint: #7E9588;
  --colorarchive-celadon-radiant-faint-hsl: hsl(145, 10%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-radiant-faint-rgb: rgb(126, 149, 136);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

BalancedTrustworthyGrowing
Common in

Finance · Insurance · Environmental

Pairs well with

White for clean professionalism, dark navy for authority, gold for premium

Design tip

The go-to for financial dashboards and environmental brands. Green conveys stability — use for success states and positive metrics.

Cultural context ▶

Green universally represents nature, growth, and money. In Islam, green is sacred. In Western finance, it signals profit.

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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where many identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #7E9588.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Green · #788C5D
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7E9588.

  • AustraliaEucalyptus Blue-Green
    #7EA08C · Eucalyptus regnans / globulus foliage
    →
  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →

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 PalettesAccessibilityAccessible Color Design: Beyond WCAG Contrast Ratios

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 Tone Faint
#8FA397 · hsl(145, 10%, 60%)
Darker companion
Celadon Core Faint
#6E8778 · hsl(145, 10%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Radiant Faint
#957E8E · hsl(320, 10%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Radiant Faint
#7E9592 · hsl(170, 10%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Radiant Faint
#7E957E · hsl(120, 10%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Radiant Faint
#867E95 · hsl(260, 10%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Radiant Faint
#95887E · hsl(25, 10%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Radiant Faint
#927E95 · hsl(290, 10%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Radiant Faint
#957E7E · hsl(0, 10%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Radiant Faint #7E9588
Lighter companion: Celadon Tone Faint #8FA397
Darker companion: Celadon Core Faint #6E8778
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Radiant Faint #957E8E
Analogous lead: Lagoon Radiant Faint #7E9592
Analogous echo: Emerald Radiant Faint #7E957E
Triadic +120°: Orchid Radiant Faint #867E95
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Radiant Faint #95887E
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Radiant Faint #927E95
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Radiant Faint #957E7E

Compare

See how Celadon Radiant Faint compares side by side with related colors.

vsCeladon Tone FaintvsCeladon Core FaintvsRose Radiant FaintvsLagoon Radiant FaintvsEmerald Radiant FaintvsOrchid Radiant Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

Search by hex
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Muted
#759F86 · hsl(145, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Core Faint
#6E8778 · hsl(145, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Faint
#8FA397 · hsl(145, 10%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Faint
#7E9586 · hsl(140, 10%, 54%)
Nearby match
Jade Radiant Faint
#7E958A · hsl(150, 10%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Dust
#6BA885 · hsl(145, 26%, 54%)

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
#87858C
Protanopia
#89898B
Tritanopia
#7F8E8E
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Celadon Radiant Faint#7E9588 · hsl(145, 10%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Muted#759F86 · hsl(145, 18%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Dust#6BA885 · hsl(145, 26%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Soft#62B283 · hsl(145, 34%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Clear#4AC97F · hsl(145, 54%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Vivid#33E17B · hsl(145, 74%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Bright#27EC79 · hsl(145, 84%, 54%)Celadon Radiant Pure#1EF678 · hsl(145, 92%, 54%)
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