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Clover Velvet Muted
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Clover Velvet Muted

Green · Hue 115
Metrics
S 18% · L 42%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white4.6:1AAon black4.6:1AA
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About this color

Clover Velvet Muted (#5B7E58) belongs to the green family — hue 115°, 18% saturation, 42% 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-velvet-muted: #5B7E58;
  --colorarchive-clover-velvet-muted-hsl: hsl(115, 18%, 42%);
  --colorarchive-clover-velvet-muted-rgb: rgb(91, 126, 88);
}

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 #5B7E58.

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

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #5B7E58.

  • England (London)Plane Tree Green
    #5C7A5A · Platanus × hispanica, London street tree
    →
  • VietnamRice Paddy Green
    #5F8D4E · Mekong Delta
    →
  • IrelandAtlantic Slate
    #5A6770 · Cliff face + winter sea
    →

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 ConventionDesign SystemsDark Mode Color Systems: A Token Architecture Guide

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 Core Muted
#689064 · hsl(115, 18%, 48%)
Darker companion
Clover Dusk Muted
#4A6647 · hsl(115, 18%, 34%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Velvet Muted
#78587E · hsl(290, 18%, 42%)
Analogous lead
Seafoam Velvet Muted
#587E65 · hsl(140, 18%, 42%)
Analogous echo
Lime Velvet Muted
#6B7E58 · hsl(90, 18%, 42%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Velvet Muted
#585E7E · hsl(230, 18%, 42%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Velvet Muted
#7E5858 · hsl(0, 18%, 42%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Velvet Muted
#65587E · hsl(260, 18%, 42%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Velvet Muted
#7E5872 · hsl(320, 18%, 42%)
Export preview
Base: Clover Velvet Muted #5B7E58
Lighter companion: Clover Core Muted #689064
Darker companion: Clover Dusk Muted #4A6647
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Velvet Muted #78587E
Analogous lead: Seafoam Velvet Muted #587E65
Analogous echo: Lime Velvet Muted #6B7E58
Triadic +120°: Indigo Velvet Muted #585E7E
Triadic +240°: Crimson Velvet Muted #7E5858
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Velvet Muted #65587E
Split-comp +210°: Rose Velvet Muted #7E5872

Compare

See how Clover Velvet Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsClover Core MutedvsClover Dusk MutedvsMagenta Velvet MutedvsSeafoam Velvet MutedvsLime Velvet MutedvsIndigo Velvet Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Clover Velvet Faint
#627660 · hsl(115, 10%, 42%)
Nearby match
Clover Velvet Dust
#54874F · hsl(115, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Clover Core Muted
#689064 · hsl(115, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Leaf Velvet Muted
#5E7E58 · hsl(110, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Emerald Velvet Muted
#587E58 · hsl(120, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Muted
#4A6647 · hsl(115, 18%, 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
Apricot Veil Vivid
#FEFBF6
AA4.5:1
Apricot Veil Bright
#FEFBF6
AA4.5:1
Apricot Veil Pure
#FFFBF5
AA4.5:1
Cerulean Veil Bright
#F6FDFE
AA4.5:1
Cerulean Veil Pure
#F5FDFF
AA4.5:1
Saffron Veil Vivid
#FEFCF6

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6A6765
Protanopia
#6C6C63
Tritanopia
#5D6B6C
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Clover Velvet Faint#627660 · hsl(115, 10%, 42%)Clover Velvet Muted#5B7E58 · hsl(115, 18%, 42%)Clover Velvet Dust#54874F · hsl(115, 26%, 42%)Clover Velvet Soft#4D9047 · hsl(115, 34%, 42%)Clover Velvet Clear#3BA531 · hsl(115, 54%, 42%)Clover Velvet Vivid#29BA1C · hsl(115, 74%, 42%)Clover Velvet Bright#20C511 · hsl(115, 84%, 42%)Clover Velvet Pure#19CE09 · hsl(115, 92%, 42%)
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