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Jade Dusk Clear
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Jade Dusk Clear

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 54% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white4.5:1AAon black4.6:1AA
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About this color

Jade Dusk Clear (#288657) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 54% saturation, 34% 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-jade-dusk-clear: #288657;
  --colorarchive-jade-dusk-clear-hsl: hsl(150, 54%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-jade-dusk-clear-rgb: rgb(40, 134, 87);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

DeepProfessionalStable
Common in

Corporate Software · Consulting · Marine

Pairs well with

White for sharp contrast, light coral for warmth, silver for tech

Design tip

Use as a dark theme primary or sidebar background. Deep teal is less harsh than pure black while maintaining professionalism.

Cultural context ▶

Deep teal evokes deep ocean waters — stability, depth, and hidden knowledge. Common in corporate and maritime contexts.

Color Origins

Teal family

The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.

Heritage

Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, which has a stripe of this color on its head. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both copper-based pigments, flank this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) sits here too; on the statue it is mostly basic copper sulfate. Phthalo turquoise is a 20th-century pigment.

Across cultures

In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.

In the wild

Surgical scrubs are often green or teal, a choice usually explained by afterimages — staring at red tissue leaves green ghosts on white surfaces, which blend into blue-green cloth. Tiffany Blue, a robin's-egg blue-green, was trademarked in 1998 and later standardized with Pantone as '1837 Blue', after the company's founding year.

How it reads

Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).

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 #288657.

  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →
  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →
  • OpenAIaccent
    ChatGPT Green · #10A37F
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #288657.

  • VietnamJade River
    #3F8B7E · Halong Bay limestone water
    →
  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →
  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using teal 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
Jade Velvet Clear
#31A56B · hsl(150, 54%, 42%)
Darker companion
Jade Shadow Clear
#216E47 · hsl(150, 54%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Dusk Clear
#862857 · hsl(330, 54%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Dusk Clear
#28867E · hsl(175, 54%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Mint Dusk Clear
#288637 · hsl(130, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Dusk Clear
#572886 · hsl(270, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Dusk Clear
#865728 · hsl(30, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Dusk Clear
#862886 · hsl(300, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Dusk Clear
#862828 · hsl(0, 54%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Dusk Clear #288657
Lighter companion: Jade Velvet Clear #31A56B
Darker companion: Jade Shadow Clear #216E47
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Dusk Clear #862857
Analogous lead: Cyan Dusk Clear #28867E
Analogous echo: Mint Dusk Clear #288637
Triadic +120°: Plum Dusk Clear #572886
Triadic +240°: Coral Dusk Clear #865728
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Dusk Clear #862886
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Dusk Clear #862828

Compare

See how Jade Dusk Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Velvet ClearvsJade Shadow ClearvsBlush Dusk ClearvsCyan Dusk ClearvsMint Dusk ClearvsPlum Dusk Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Shadow Clear
#216E47 · hsl(150, 54%, 28%)
Nearby match
Celadon Dusk Clear
#28864F · hsl(145, 54%, 34%)
Nearby match
Jade Velvet Clear
#31A56B · hsl(150, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Jade Dusk Soft
#397457 · hsl(150, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Jade Dusk Vivid
#179757 · hsl(150, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Clear
#216E41 · hsl(145, 54%, 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
AA4.5:1
Canary Veil Pure
#FFFEF5
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Vivid
#FEFEF6
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Bright
#FEFEF6
AA4.5:1
Citrine Veil Pure
#FFFFF5
AA4.5:1
Honey Veil Vivid
#FCFEF6
AA4.5:1
Honey Veil Bright
#FDFEF6

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#5A5368
Protanopia
#5F6065
Tritanopia
#326E70
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Saturation ladder

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Sage Gray Dusk#525B57 · hsl(150, 5%, 34%)Jade Dusk Faint#4E5F57 · hsl(150, 10%, 34%)Jade Dusk Muted#476657 · hsl(150, 18%, 34%)Jade Dusk Dust#406D57 · hsl(150, 26%, 34%)Jade Dusk Soft#397457 · hsl(150, 34%, 34%)Jade Dusk Clear#288657 · hsl(150, 54%, 34%)Jade Dusk Vivid#179757 · hsl(150, 74%, 34%)Jade Dusk Bright#0EA057 · hsl(150, 84%, 34%)Jade Dusk Pure#07A657 · hsl(150, 92%, 34%)
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