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Jade Ink Pure
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Jade Ink Pure

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 92% · L 14%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white11.2:1AAon black1.9:1Fail
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About this color

Jade Ink Pure (#034524) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 92% 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-pure: #034524;
  --colorarchive-jade-ink-pure-hsl: hsl(150, 92%, 14%);
  --colorarchive-jade-ink-pure-rgb: rgb(3, 69, 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 jewel tone — saturated and dark at once. This is the register of velvet, deep enamel, and old-world luxury.

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: 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 #034524.

  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • Stripeneutral
    Slate Navy · #0A2540
    →
  • Supabaseneutral
    Surface · #2A2A2A
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #034524.

  • England (London)Pub Tile Green
    #1F4D2E · Victorian pub interior dado tiling
    →
  • IndiaMughal Blue
    #1B4F72 · Indo-Persian miniature paintings
    →
  • China (Traditional)Indigo Blue (青)
    #1A4378 · Persicaria tinctoria — Han textile dye
    →

Color guides

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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 Pure
#046233 · hsl(150, 92%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Ink Pure
#450324 · hsl(330, 92%, 14%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Ink Pure
#03453F · hsl(175, 92%, 14%)
Analogous echo
Mint Ink Pure
#03450E · hsl(130, 92%, 14%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Ink Pure
#240345 · hsl(270, 92%, 14%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Ink Pure
#452403 · hsl(30, 92%, 14%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Ink Pure
#450345 · hsl(300, 92%, 14%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Ink Pure
#450303 · hsl(0, 92%, 14%)
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Base: Jade Ink Pure #034524
Lighter companion: Jade Nocturne Pure #046233
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Ink Pure #450324
Analogous lead: Cyan Ink Pure #03453F
Analogous echo: Mint Ink Pure #03450E
Triadic +120°: Plum Ink Pure #240345
Triadic +240°: Coral Ink Pure #452403
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Ink Pure #450345
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Ink Pure #450303

Compare

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

vsJade Nocturne PurevsBlush Ink PurevsCyan Ink PurevsMint Ink PurevsPlum Ink PurevsCoral Ink Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Ink Bright
#064224 · hsl(150, 84%, 14%)
Nearby match
Jade Nocturne Pure
#046233 · hsl(150, 92%, 20%)
Nearby match
Celadon Ink Pure
#03451E · hsl(145, 92%, 14%)
Nearby match
Jade Nocturne Bright
#085E33 · hsl(150, 84%, 20%)
Nearby match
Jade Ink Vivid
#093E24 · hsl(150, 74%, 14%)
Nearby match
Celadon Ink Bright
#06421F · hsl(145, 84%, 14%)

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
AAA10.6:1
Blush Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA10.7:1
Blush Veil Muted
#FBF9FA
AAA10.7:1
Blush Veil Dust
#FBF9FA
AAA10.6:1
Blush Veil Soft
#FCF8FA
AAA10.6:1
Blush Veil Clear
#FDF7FA
AAA10.5:1
Blush Veil Vivid
#FEF6FA

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#2A2531
Protanopia
#2D2E2E
Tritanopia
#0C3536
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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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