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Celadon Tone Dust
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Celadon Tone Dust

Green · Hue 145
Metrics
S 26% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.4:1Failon black8.8:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Tone Dust (#7EB495) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 26% saturation, 60% 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-tone-dust: #7EB495;
  --colorarchive-celadon-tone-dust-hsl: hsl(145, 26%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-tone-dust-rgb: rgb(126, 180, 149);
}

AI Color Names

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

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 #7EB495.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Mid Gray · #B0AEA5
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Redditsecondary
    Periwinkle · #7193FF
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #7EB495.

  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →
  • IrelandConnemara Marble
    #8DA48A · Mottled green-grey native marble
    →
  • AustraliaEucalyptus Blue-Green
    #7EA08C · Eucalyptus regnans / globulus foliage
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

Color History1970s Earth Tone Colors: Harvest Gold, Avocado Green & Burnt Orange PalettesUI DesignColor in Financial UI: Trust, Data Visualization, and the Red/Green ConventionUI DesignGradients in UI Design: Functional vs Decorative and How to Use Both

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 Silk Dust
#98C3AA · hsl(145, 26%, 68%)
Darker companion
Celadon Radiant Dust
#6BA885 · hsl(145, 26%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Tone Dust
#B47EA2 · hsl(320, 26%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Tone Dust
#7EB4AB · hsl(170, 26%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Tone Dust
#7EB47E · hsl(120, 26%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Tone Dust
#907EB4 · hsl(260, 26%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Tone Dust
#B4957E · hsl(25, 26%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Tone Dust
#AB7EB4 · hsl(290, 26%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Tone Dust
#B47E7E · hsl(0, 26%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Tone Dust #7EB495
Lighter companion: Celadon Silk Dust #98C3AA
Darker companion: Celadon Radiant Dust #6BA885
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Tone Dust #B47EA2
Analogous lead: Lagoon Tone Dust #7EB4AB
Analogous echo: Emerald Tone Dust #7EB47E
Triadic +120°: Orchid Tone Dust #907EB4
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Tone Dust #B4957E
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Tone Dust #AB7EB4
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Tone Dust #B47E7E

Compare

See how Celadon Tone Dust compares side by side with related colors.

vsCeladon Silk DustvsCeladon Radiant DustvsRose Tone DustvsLagoon Tone DustvsEmerald Tone DustvsOrchid Tone Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Celadon Tone Muted
#87AB96 · hsl(145, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Soft
#76BC93 · hsl(145, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Dust
#6BA885 · hsl(145, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Dust
#7EB490 · hsl(140, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Jade Tone Dust
#7EB499 · hsl(150, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Celadon Silk Dust
#98C3AA · hsl(145, 26%, 68%)

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
AAA7:1
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A
AAA7:1
Blush Ink Clear
#371024
AAA7:1
Blush Ink Vivid
#3E0924
AAA7.1:1
Garnet Ink Clear
#37101D
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Vivid
#3E091B
AAA7:1
Garnet Ink Bright
#42061A

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#95919F
Protanopia
#98999D
Tritanopia
#81A3A5
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Celadon Tone Faint#8FA397 · hsl(145, 10%, 60%)Celadon Tone Muted#87AB96 · hsl(145, 18%, 60%)Celadon Tone Dust#7EB495 · hsl(145, 26%, 60%)Celadon Tone Soft#76BC93 · hsl(145, 34%, 60%)Celadon Tone Clear#62D090 · hsl(145, 54%, 60%)Celadon Tone Vivid#4EE48C · hsl(145, 74%, 60%)Celadon Tone Bright#43EF8B · hsl(145, 84%, 60%)Celadon Tone Pure#3BF789 · hsl(145, 92%, 60%)
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