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Clover Dusk Vivid
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Clover Dusk Vivid

Green · Hue 115
Metrics
S 74% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.8:1AA Largeon black5.5:1AA
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About this color

Clover Dusk Vivid (#219717) belongs to the green family — hue 115°, 74% 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-clover-dusk-vivid: #219717;
  --colorarchive-clover-dusk-vivid-hsl: hsl(115, 74%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-clover-dusk-vivid-rgb: rgb(33, 151, 23);
}

AI Color Names

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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 #219717.

  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
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  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →
  • Spotifyprimary
    Spotify Green · #1DB954
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #219717.

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

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 ConventionColor TheoryMastering Color Saturation: When to Be Bold and When to Pull Back

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
Clover Velvet Vivid
#29BA1C · hsl(115, 74%, 42%)
Darker companion
Clover Shadow Vivid
#1B7C13 · hsl(115, 74%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Dusk Vivid
#811797 · hsl(290, 74%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Seafoam Dusk Vivid
#179741 · hsl(140, 74%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Lime Dusk Vivid
#579717 · hsl(90, 74%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Dusk Vivid
#172C97 · hsl(230, 74%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Dusk Vivid
#971717 · hsl(0, 74%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Dusk Vivid
#411797 · hsl(260, 74%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Dusk Vivid
#97176C · hsl(320, 74%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Clover Dusk Vivid #219717
Lighter companion: Clover Velvet Vivid #29BA1C
Darker companion: Clover Shadow Vivid #1B7C13
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Dusk Vivid #811797
Analogous lead: Seafoam Dusk Vivid #179741
Analogous echo: Lime Dusk Vivid #579717
Triadic +120°: Indigo Dusk Vivid #172C97
Triadic +240°: Crimson Dusk Vivid #971717
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Dusk Vivid #411797
Split-comp +210°: Rose Dusk Vivid #97176C

Compare

See how Clover Dusk Vivid compares side by side with related colors.

vsClover Velvet VividvsClover Shadow VividvsMagenta Dusk VividvsSeafoam Dusk VividvsLime Dusk VividvsIndigo Dusk Vivid

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Clover Shadow Vivid
#1B7C13 · hsl(115, 74%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Bright
#1AA00E · hsl(115, 84%, 34%)
Nearby match
Leaf Dusk Vivid
#2C9717 · hsl(110, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Emerald Dusk Vivid
#179717 · hsl(120, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Clover Velvet Vivid
#29BA1C · hsl(115, 74%, 42%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Pure
#14A607 · hsl(115, 92%, 34%)

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
AA4.5:1
Mulberry Ink Clear
#2A1037
AA4.5:1
Mulberry Ink Vivid
#2D093E
AA4.5:1
Mulberry Ink Bright
#2E0642
AA4.5:1
Mulberry Ink Pure
#2F0345
AA4.6:1
Plum Ink Clear
#241037
AA4.6:1
Plum Ink Vivid
#24093E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#635B59
Protanopia
#6A6A51
Tritanopia
#30686D
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Clover Dusk Faint#4F5F4E · hsl(115, 10%, 34%)Clover Dusk Muted#4A6647 · hsl(115, 18%, 34%)Clover Dusk Dust#446D40 · hsl(115, 26%, 34%)Clover Dusk Soft#3E7439 · hsl(115, 34%, 34%)Clover Dusk Clear#308628 · hsl(115, 54%, 34%)Clover Dusk Vivid#219717 · hsl(115, 74%, 34%)Clover Dusk Bright#1AA00E · hsl(115, 84%, 34%)Clover Dusk Pure#14A607 · hsl(115, 92%, 34%)
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