Emerald Tone Muted (#87AB87) belongs to the green family — hue 120°, 18% saturation, 60% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.
:root { --colorarchive-emerald-tone-muted: #87AB87; --colorarchive-emerald-tone-muted-hsl: hsl(120, 18%, 60%); --colorarchive-emerald-tone-muted-rgb: rgb(135, 171, 135); }
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Finance · Insurance · Environmental
White for clean professionalism, dark navy for authority, gold for premium
The go-to for financial dashboards and environmental brands. Green conveys stability — use for success states and positive metrics.
Green universally represents nature, growth, and money. In Islam, green is sacred. In Western finance, it signals profit.
The color of growth, currency, and long-running brands.
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.
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.
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.
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'.
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.
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Base: Emerald Tone Muted #87AB87 Lighter companion: Emerald Silk Muted #9FBC9F Darker companion: Emerald Radiant Muted #759F75 Complementary counterpoint: Fuchsia Tone Muted #AB87AB Analogous lead: Celadon Tone Muted #87AB96 Analogous echo: Moss Tone Muted #93AB87 Triadic +120°: Iris Tone Muted #8787AB Triadic +240°: Crimson Tone Muted #AB8787 Split-comp +150°: Plum Tone Muted #9987AB Split-comp +210°: Blush Tone Muted #AB8799
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