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Emerald Core Pure
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Emerald Core Pure

Green · Hue 120
Metrics
S 92% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.6:1Failon black12.9:1AA
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About this color

Emerald Core Pure (#0AEB0A) belongs to the green family — hue 120°, 92% saturation, 48% 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-emerald-core-pure: #0AEB0A;
  --colorarchive-emerald-core-pure-hsl: hsl(120, 92%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-emerald-core-pure-rgb: rgb(10, 235, 10);
}

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 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 #0AEB0A.

  • Stripeaccent
    Success Green · #00D924
    →
  • WeChat 微信primary
    WeChat Green · #07C160
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

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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
Emerald Radiant Pure
#1EF61E · hsl(120, 92%, 54%)
Darker companion
Emerald Velvet Pure
#09CE09 · hsl(120, 92%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Fuchsia Core Pure
#EB0AEB · hsl(300, 92%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Celadon Core Pure
#0AEB68 · hsl(145, 92%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Moss Core Pure
#55EB0A · hsl(100, 92%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Iris Core Pure
#0A0AEB · hsl(240, 92%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Core Pure
#EB0A0A · hsl(0, 92%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Plum Core Pure
#7A0AEB · hsl(270, 92%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Blush Core Pure
#EB0A7A · hsl(330, 92%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Emerald Core Pure #0AEB0A
Lighter companion: Emerald Radiant Pure #1EF61E
Darker companion: Emerald Velvet Pure #09CE09
Complementary counterpoint: Fuchsia Core Pure #EB0AEB
Analogous lead: Celadon Core Pure #0AEB68
Analogous echo: Moss Core Pure #55EB0A
Triadic +120°: Iris Core Pure #0A0AEB
Triadic +240°: Crimson Core Pure #EB0A0A
Split-comp +150°: Plum Core Pure #7A0AEB
Split-comp +210°: Blush Core Pure #EB0A7A

Compare

See how Emerald Core Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsEmerald Radiant PurevsEmerald Velvet PurevsFuchsia Core PurevsCeladon Core PurevsMoss Core PurevsIris Core Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Emerald Core Bright
#14E114 · hsl(120, 84%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Velvet Pure
#09CE09 · hsl(120, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Emerald Radiant Pure
#1EF61E · hsl(120, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Clover Core Pure
#1DEB0A · hsl(115, 92%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Velvet Bright
#11C511 · hsl(120, 84%, 42%)
Nearby match
Emerald Radiant Bright
#27EC27 · hsl(120, 84%, 54%)

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
AAA8:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Faint
#382E38
AAA8.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Muted
#3C2A3C
AAA8.2:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Dust
#402640
AAA8.3:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Soft
#442244
AAA8.2:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Clear
#4F174F
AAA7.9:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Vivid
#590D59

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#988989
Protanopia
#A2A37C
Tritanopia
#3BA2A9
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Emerald Core Faint#6E876E · hsl(120, 10%, 48%)Emerald Core Muted#649064 · hsl(120, 18%, 48%)Emerald Core Dust#5B9A5B · hsl(120, 26%, 48%)Emerald Core Soft#51A451 · hsl(120, 34%, 48%)Emerald Core Clear#38BC38 · hsl(120, 54%, 48%)Emerald Core Vivid#20D520 · hsl(120, 74%, 48%)Emerald Core Bright#14E114 · hsl(120, 84%, 48%)Emerald Core Pure#0AEB0A · hsl(120, 92%, 48%)
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