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Jade Ink Clear
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Jade Ink Clear

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 54% · L 14%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white13.2:1AAon black1.6:1Fail
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About this color

Jade Ink Clear (#103724) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 54% saturation, 14% 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-ink-clear: #103724;
  --colorarchive-jade-ink-clear-hsl: hsl(150, 54%, 14%);
  --colorarchive-jade-ink-clear-rgb: rgb(16, 55, 36);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

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 #103724.

  • Stripeneutral
    Slate Navy · #0A2540
    →
  • Supabaseneutral
    Surface · #2A2A2A
    →
  • Patagonianeutral
    Forest Black · #0F1F2E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #103724.

  • England (London)Pub Tile Green
    #1F4D2E · Victorian pub interior dado tiling
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Obangsaek Black (흑 / heuk)
    #1F1F1F · North — water element, ink and lacquer
    →
  • AustraliaSouthern Sky Navy
    #0C1E3F · Outback night sky
    →

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 Nocturne Clear
#174F33 · hsl(150, 54%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Ink Clear
#371024 · hsl(330, 54%, 14%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Ink Clear
#103734 · hsl(175, 54%, 14%)
Analogous echo
Mint Ink Clear
#103717 · hsl(130, 54%, 14%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Ink Clear
#241037 · hsl(270, 54%, 14%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Ink Clear
#372410 · hsl(30, 54%, 14%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Ink Clear
#371037 · hsl(300, 54%, 14%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Ink Clear
#371010 · hsl(0, 54%, 14%)
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Base: Jade Ink Clear #103724
Lighter companion: Jade Nocturne Clear #174F33
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Ink Clear #371024
Analogous lead: Cyan Ink Clear #103734
Analogous echo: Mint Ink Clear #103717
Triadic +120°: Plum Ink Clear #241037
Triadic +240°: Coral Ink Clear #372410
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Ink Clear #371037
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Ink Clear #371010

Compare

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

vsJade Nocturne ClearvsBlush Ink ClearvsCyan Ink ClearvsMint Ink ClearvsPlum Ink ClearvsCoral Ink Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Nocturne Clear
#174F33 · hsl(150, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Celadon Ink Clear
#103720 · hsl(145, 54%, 14%)
Nearby match
Jade Ink Soft
#183024 · hsl(150, 34%, 14%)
Nearby match
Jade Ink Vivid
#093E24 · hsl(150, 74%, 14%)
Nearby match
Celadon Nocturne Clear
#174F2E · hsl(145, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Jade Shadow Clear
#216E47 · hsl(150, 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
AAA12.5:1
Blush Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA12.6:1
Blush Veil Muted
#FBF9FA
AAA12.6:1
Blush Veil Dust
#FBF9FA
AAA12.5:1
Blush Veil Soft
#FCF8FA
AAA12.5:1
Blush Veil Clear
#FDF7FA
AAA12.4:1
Blush Veil Vivid
#FEF6FA

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#24212B
Protanopia
#262629
Tritanopia
#142D2E
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Sage Gray Ink#222524 · hsl(150, 5%, 14%)Jade Ink Faint#202724 · hsl(150, 10%, 14%)Jade Ink Muted#1D2A24 · hsl(150, 18%, 14%)Jade Ink Dust#1A2D24 · hsl(150, 26%, 14%)Jade Ink Soft#183024 · hsl(150, 34%, 14%)Jade Ink Clear#103724 · hsl(150, 54%, 14%)Jade Ink Vivid#093E24 · hsl(150, 74%, 14%)Jade Ink Bright#064224 · hsl(150, 84%, 14%)Jade Ink Pure#034524 · hsl(150, 92%, 14%)
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