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Leaf Tone Clear
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Leaf Tone Clear

Green · Hue 110
Metrics
S 54% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.9:1Failon black10.9:1AA
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About this color

Leaf Tone Clear (#74D062) belongs to the green family — hue 110°, 54% 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.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-leaf-tone-clear: #74D062;
  --colorarchive-leaf-tone-clear-hsl: hsl(110, 54%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-leaf-tone-clear-rgb: rgb(116, 208, 98);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

BalancedTrustworthyGrowing
Common in

Finance · Insurance · Environmental

Pairs well with

White for clean professionalism, dark navy for authority, gold for premium

Design tip

The go-to for financial dashboards and environmental brands. Green conveys stability — use for success states and positive metrics.

Cultural context ▶

Green universally represents nature, growth, and money. In Islam, green is sacred. In Western finance, it signals profit.

Color Origins

Green family

The color of growth, currency, and long-running brands.

Heritage

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.

Across cultures

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.

In the wild

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.

How it reads

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'.

This particular tone

A confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where many brand colors live.

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 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 #74D062.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Microsoftprimary
    Xbox Green · #7FBA00
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #74D062.

  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →
  • China (Traditional)Celadon (青瓷)
    #9CB48F · Song Dynasty Longquan kilns
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

UI DesignColor in Financial UI: Trust, Data Visualization, and the Red/Green ConventionColor History1970s Earth Tone Colors: Harvest Gold, Avocado Green & Burnt Orange PalettesColor TheoryPastel Color Palette: How to Use Soft Colors Without Losing Contrast

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
Leaf Silk Clear
#90D981 · hsl(110, 54%, 68%)
Darker companion
Leaf Radiant Clear
#5FC94A · hsl(110, 54%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Tone Clear
#BE62D0 · hsl(290, 54%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Mint Tone Clear
#62D074 · hsl(130, 54%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Lime Tone Clear
#99D062 · hsl(90, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Tone Clear
#6274D0 · hsl(230, 54%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Merlot Tone Clear
#D06274 · hsl(350, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Tone Clear
#8762D0 · hsl(260, 54%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Tone Clear
#D062AB · hsl(320, 54%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Leaf Tone Clear #74D062
Lighter companion: Leaf Silk Clear #90D981
Darker companion: Leaf Radiant Clear #5FC94A
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Tone Clear #BE62D0
Analogous lead: Mint Tone Clear #62D074
Analogous echo: Lime Tone Clear #99D062
Triadic +120°: Indigo Tone Clear #6274D0
Triadic +240°: Merlot Tone Clear #D06274
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Tone Clear #8762D0
Split-comp +210°: Rose Tone Clear #D062AB

Compare

See how Leaf Tone Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsLeaf Silk ClearvsLeaf Radiant ClearvsMagenta Tone ClearvsMint Tone ClearvsLime Tone ClearvsIndigo Tone Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Leaf Radiant Clear
#5FC94A · hsl(110, 54%, 54%)
Nearby match
Clover Tone Clear
#6BD062 · hsl(115, 54%, 60%)
Nearby match
Leaf Silk Clear
#90D981 · hsl(110, 54%, 68%)
Nearby match
Leaf Core Clear
#4EBC38 · hsl(110, 54%, 48%)
Nearby match
Leaf Tone Soft
#82BC76 · hsl(110, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Leaf Tone Vivid
#67E44E · hsl(110, 74%, 60%)

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
AAA7:1
Magenta Nocturne Muted
#392A3C
AAA7.1:1
Magenta Nocturne Dust
#3C2640
AAA7.2:1
Magenta Nocturne Soft
#3F2244
AAA7.4:1
Magenta Nocturne Clear
#45174F
AAA7.3:1
Magenta Nocturne Vivid
#4C0D59
AAA7.1:1
Magenta Nocturne Bright
#50085E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#9F978F
Protanopia
#A4A588
Tritanopia
#7B9EA2
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Leaf Tone Faint#92A38F · hsl(110, 10%, 60%)Leaf Tone Muted#8DAB87 · hsl(110, 18%, 60%)Leaf Tone Dust#87B47E · hsl(110, 26%, 60%)Leaf Tone Soft#82BC76 · hsl(110, 34%, 60%)Leaf Tone Clear#74D062 · hsl(110, 54%, 60%)Leaf Tone Vivid#67E44E · hsl(110, 74%, 60%)Leaf Tone Bright#60EF43 · hsl(110, 84%, 60%)Leaf Tone Pure#5AF73B · hsl(110, 92%, 60%)
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