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Emerald Radiant Pure
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Emerald Radiant Pure

Green · Hue 120
Metrics
S 92% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.5:1Failon black14.3:1AA
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About this color

Emerald Radiant Pure (#1EF61E) belongs to the green family — hue 120°, 92% saturation, 54% 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-radiant-pure: #1EF61E;
  --colorarchive-emerald-radiant-pure-hsl: hsl(120, 92%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-emerald-radiant-pure-rgb: rgb(30, 246, 30);
}

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 #1EF61E.

  • Stripeaccent
    Success Green · #00D924
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →

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 TheoryColor in Typography: How to Use Color in Text Without Losing Legibility

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 Tone Pure
#3BF73B · hsl(120, 92%, 60%)
Darker companion
Emerald Core Pure
#0AEB0A · hsl(120, 92%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Fuchsia Radiant Pure
#F61EF6 · hsl(300, 92%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Celadon Radiant Pure
#1EF678 · hsl(145, 92%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Moss Radiant Pure
#66F61E · hsl(100, 92%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Iris Radiant Pure
#1E1EF6 · hsl(240, 92%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Radiant Pure
#F61E1E · hsl(0, 92%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Plum Radiant Pure
#8A1EF6 · hsl(270, 92%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Blush Radiant Pure
#F61E8A · hsl(330, 92%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Emerald Radiant Pure #1EF61E
Lighter companion: Emerald Tone Pure #3BF73B
Darker companion: Emerald Core Pure #0AEB0A
Complementary counterpoint: Fuchsia Radiant Pure #F61EF6
Analogous lead: Celadon Radiant Pure #1EF678
Analogous echo: Moss Radiant Pure #66F61E
Triadic +120°: Iris Radiant Pure #1E1EF6
Triadic +240°: Crimson Radiant Pure #F61E1E
Split-comp +150°: Plum Radiant Pure #8A1EF6
Split-comp +210°: Blush Radiant Pure #F61E8A

Compare

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

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

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Emerald Radiant Bright
#27EC27 · hsl(120, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Emerald Core Pure
#0AEB0A · hsl(120, 92%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Tone Pure
#3BF73B · hsl(120, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Clover Radiant Pure
#30F61E · hsl(115, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Emerald Core Bright
#14E114 · hsl(120, 84%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Tone Bright
#43EF43 · hsl(120, 84%, 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
AAA8.8:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Faint
#382E38
AAA9:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Muted
#3C2A3C
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Dust
#402640
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Soft
#442244
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Clear
#4F174F
AAA8.8:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Vivid
#590D59

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A09292
Protanopia
#ABAC84
Tritanopia
#44ABB2
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Emerald Radiant Faint#7E957E · hsl(120, 10%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Muted#759F75 · hsl(120, 18%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Dust#6BA86B · hsl(120, 26%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Soft#62B262 · hsl(120, 34%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Clear#4AC94A · hsl(120, 54%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Vivid#33E133 · hsl(120, 74%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Bright#27EC27 · hsl(120, 84%, 54%)Emerald Radiant Pure#1EF61E · hsl(120, 92%, 54%)
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