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Jade Radiant Vivid
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Jade Radiant Vivid

Teal · Hue 150
Metrics
S 74% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.7:1Failon black12.3:1AA
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About this color

Jade Radiant Vivid (#33E18A) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 74% 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-jade-radiant-vivid: #33E18A;
  --colorarchive-jade-radiant-vivid-hsl: hsl(150, 74%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-jade-radiant-vivid-rgb: rgb(51, 225, 138);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

SophisticatedCreativeBalanced
Common in

Design Agencies · Healthcare Tech · Education

Pairs well with

Warm orange for complementary energy, dark slate for depth

Design tip

A versatile primary color for brands seeking to appear both creative and reliable. Works across light and dark themes.

Cultural context ▶

Teal balances emotional stability with mental clarity. It's associated with communication and healing in color therapy.

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 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 #33E18A.

  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #33E18A.

  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Bosphorus Turquoise
    #4DA8AC · Marmara strait water
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →

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 Tone Vivid
#4EE499 · hsl(150, 74%, 60%)
Darker companion
Jade Core Vivid
#20D57A · hsl(150, 74%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Radiant Vivid
#E1338A · hsl(330, 74%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Radiant Vivid
#33E1D2 · hsl(175, 74%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Mint Radiant Vivid
#33E150 · hsl(130, 74%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Radiant Vivid
#8A33E1 · hsl(270, 74%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Radiant Vivid
#E18A33 · hsl(30, 74%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Radiant Vivid
#E133E1 · hsl(300, 74%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Radiant Vivid
#E13333 · hsl(0, 74%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Radiant Vivid #33E18A
Lighter companion: Jade Tone Vivid #4EE499
Darker companion: Jade Core Vivid #20D57A
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Radiant Vivid #E1338A
Analogous lead: Cyan Radiant Vivid #33E1D2
Analogous echo: Mint Radiant Vivid #33E150
Triadic +120°: Plum Radiant Vivid #8A33E1
Triadic +240°: Coral Radiant Vivid #E18A33
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Radiant Vivid #E133E1
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Radiant Vivid #E13333

Compare

See how Jade Radiant Vivid compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Tone VividvsJade Core VividvsBlush Radiant VividvsCyan Radiant VividvsMint Radiant VividvsPlum Radiant Vivid

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Core Vivid
#20D57A · hsl(150, 74%, 48%)
Nearby match
Jade Tone Vivid
#4EE499 · hsl(150, 74%, 60%)
Nearby match
Jade Radiant Bright
#27EC8A · hsl(150, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Vivid
#33E17B · hsl(145, 74%, 54%)
Nearby match
Jade Radiant Pure
#1EF68A · hsl(150, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Jade Velvet Vivid
#1CBA6B · hsl(150, 74%, 42%)

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
AAA7.6:1
Blush Nocturne Faint
#382E33
AAA7.8:1
Blush Nocturne Muted
#3C2A33
AAA8:1
Blush Nocturne Dust
#402633
AAA8.1:1
Blush Nocturne Soft
#442233
AAA8.2:1
Blush Nocturne Clear
#4F1733
AAA8:1
Blush Nocturne Vivid
#590D33

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#9689AA
Protanopia
#9FA0A5
Tritanopia
#4AB6BA
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Saturation ladder

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Sage Gray Radiant#84908A · hsl(150, 5%, 54%)Jade Radiant Faint#7E958A · hsl(150, 10%, 54%)Jade Radiant Muted#759F8A · hsl(150, 18%, 54%)Jade Radiant Dust#6BA88A · hsl(150, 26%, 54%)Jade Radiant Soft#62B28A · hsl(150, 34%, 54%)Jade Radiant Clear#4AC98A · hsl(150, 54%, 54%)Jade Radiant Vivid#33E18A · hsl(150, 74%, 54%)Jade Radiant Bright#27EC8A · hsl(150, 84%, 54%)Jade Radiant Pure#1EF68A · hsl(150, 92%, 54%)
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