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Clover Shadow Soft
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Clover Shadow Soft

Green · Hue 115
Metrics
S 34% · L 28%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white7.4:1AAon black2.9:1Fail
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About this color

Clover Shadow Soft (#33602F) belongs to the green family — hue 115°, 34% saturation, 28% 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-shadow-soft: #33602F;
  --colorarchive-clover-shadow-soft-hsl: hsl(115, 34%, 28%);
  --colorarchive-clover-shadow-soft-rgb: rgb(51, 96, 47);
}

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 deep, weighted version of the hue — formal, considered, and pairs especially well with off-white and warm metallic accents.

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: The clear, mid-saturation register is a common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #33602F.

  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • Xiaohongshu 小红书neutral
    Slate Text · #333333
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #33602F.

  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →
  • ScandinaviaForest Green
    #3D5B49 · Spruce / fir forest in winter light
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →

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 TheoryEarthy Color Palettes: Building with Natural Tones

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 Dusk Soft
#3E7439 · hsl(115, 34%, 34%)
Darker companion
Clover Nocturne Soft
#254422 · hsl(115, 34%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Shadow Soft
#582F60 · hsl(290, 34%, 28%)
Analogous lead
Seafoam Shadow Soft
#2F603F · hsl(140, 34%, 28%)
Analogous echo
Lime Shadow Soft
#47602F · hsl(90, 34%, 28%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Shadow Soft
#2F3760 · hsl(230, 34%, 28%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Shadow Soft
#602F2F · hsl(0, 34%, 28%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Shadow Soft
#3F2F60 · hsl(260, 34%, 28%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Shadow Soft
#602F4F · hsl(320, 34%, 28%)
Export preview
Base: Clover Shadow Soft #33602F
Lighter companion: Clover Dusk Soft #3E7439
Darker companion: Clover Nocturne Soft #254422
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Shadow Soft #582F60
Analogous lead: Seafoam Shadow Soft #2F603F
Analogous echo: Lime Shadow Soft #47602F
Triadic +120°: Indigo Shadow Soft #2F3760
Triadic +240°: Crimson Shadow Soft #602F2F
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Shadow Soft #3F2F60
Split-comp +210°: Rose Shadow Soft #602F4F

Compare

See how Clover Shadow Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsClover Dusk SoftvsClover Nocturne SoftvsMagenta Shadow SoftvsSeafoam Shadow SoftvsLime Shadow SoftvsIndigo Shadow Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Clover Shadow Dust
#385A35 · hsl(115, 26%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Soft
#3E7439 · hsl(115, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Leaf Shadow Soft
#37602F · hsl(110, 34%, 28%)
Nearby match
Emerald Shadow Soft
#2F602F · hsl(120, 34%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Nocturne Soft
#254422 · hsl(115, 34%, 20%)
Nearby match
Clover Shadow Muted
#3D543B · hsl(115, 18%, 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
AAA7:1
Magenta Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA7:1
Magenta Veil Muted
#FBF9FB
AAA7:1
Magenta Veil Dust
#FBF9FB
AAA7:1
Magenta Veil Soft
#FBF8FC
AAA7:1
Magenta Veil Clear
#FCF7FD
AAA7:1
Fuchsia Veil Faint
#FAF9FA

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#484442
Protanopia
#4B4B3F
Tritanopia
#36494B
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Clover Shadow Faint#414F40 · hsl(115, 10%, 28%)Clover Shadow Muted#3D543B · hsl(115, 18%, 28%)Clover Shadow Dust#385A35 · hsl(115, 26%, 28%)Clover Shadow Soft#33602F · hsl(115, 34%, 28%)Clover Shadow Clear#276E21 · hsl(115, 54%, 28%)Clover Shadow Vivid#1B7C13 · hsl(115, 74%, 28%)Clover Shadow Bright#15830B · hsl(115, 84%, 28%)Clover Shadow Pure#118906 · hsl(115, 92%, 28%)
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