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Celadon Tone Vivid
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Celadon Tone Vivid

Green · Hue 145
Metrics
S 74% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.6:1Failon black12.8:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Tone Vivid (#4EE48C) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 74% 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-vivid: #4EE48C;
  --colorarchive-celadon-tone-vivid-hsl: hsl(145, 74%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-tone-vivid-rgb: rgb(78, 228, 140);
}

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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: 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 #4EE48C.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #4EE48C.

  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →

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 DesignColor in Dashboard and Data Visualization Design

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 Vivid
#71EAA3 · hsl(145, 74%, 68%)
Darker companion
Celadon Radiant Vivid
#33E17B · hsl(145, 74%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Tone Vivid
#E44EB2 · hsl(320, 74%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Tone Vivid
#4EE4CB · hsl(170, 74%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Tone Vivid
#4EE44E · hsl(120, 74%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Tone Vivid
#804EE4 · hsl(260, 74%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Tone Vivid
#E48C4E · hsl(25, 74%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Tone Vivid
#CB4EE4 · hsl(290, 74%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Tone Vivid
#E44E4E · hsl(0, 74%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Tone Vivid #4EE48C
Lighter companion: Celadon Silk Vivid #71EAA3
Darker companion: Celadon Radiant Vivid #33E17B
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Tone Vivid #E44EB2
Analogous lead: Lagoon Tone Vivid #4EE4CB
Analogous echo: Emerald Tone Vivid #4EE44E
Triadic +120°: Orchid Tone Vivid #804EE4
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Tone Vivid #E48C4E
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Tone Vivid #CB4EE4
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Tone Vivid #E44E4E

Compare

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

vsCeladon Silk VividvsCeladon Radiant VividvsRose Tone VividvsLagoon Tone VividvsEmerald Tone VividvsOrchid Tone Vivid

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Vivid
#33E17B · hsl(145, 74%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Bright
#43EF8B · hsl(145, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Vivid
#4EE480 · hsl(140, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Jade Tone Vivid
#4EE499 · hsl(150, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Celadon Silk Vivid
#71EAA3 · hsl(145, 74%, 68%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Pure
#3BF789 · hsl(145, 92%, 60%)

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
AAA7.9:1
Rose Nocturne Faint
#382E35
AAA8.1:1
Rose Nocturne Muted
#3C2A36
AAA8.3:1
Rose Nocturne Dust
#402637
AAA8.3:1
Rose Nocturne Soft
#442239
AAA8.4:1
Rose Nocturne Clear
#4F173C
AAA8.2:1
Rose Nocturne Vivid
#590D40

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#9D92AD
Protanopia
#A6A7A7
Tritanopia
#5EB9BD
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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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