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Seafoam Dusk Bright
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Seafoam Dusk Bright

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 84% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white3.4:1AA Largeon black6.1:1AA
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About this color

Seafoam Dusk Bright (#0EA03E) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 84% 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-seafoam-dusk-bright: #0EA03E;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-dusk-bright-hsl: hsl(140, 84%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-dusk-bright-rgb: rgb(14, 160, 62);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

PrestigiousTimelessAuthoritative
Common in

Banking · Law Firms · Luxury Real Estate

Pairs well with

Gold, ivory, or warm white for classic elegance

Design tip

Excellent for dark mode themes and premium interfaces. Deep green with gold accents creates an instantly luxurious feel.

Cultural context ▶

Deep greens like forest and hunter green evoke tradition, wealth, and the British countryside. Common in Ivy League branding.

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 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 #0EA03E.

  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
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  • OpenAIaccent
    ChatGPT Green · #10A37F
    →
  • Spotifyprimary
    Spotify Green · #1DB954
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #0EA03E.

  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
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  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →

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
Seafoam Velvet Bright
#11C54D · hsl(140, 84%, 42%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Shadow Bright
#0B8333 · hsl(140, 84%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Dusk Bright
#A00E6F · hsl(320, 84%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Teal Dusk Bright
#0EA06F · hsl(160, 84%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Clover Dusk Bright
#1AA00E · hsl(115, 84%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Dusk Bright
#3E0EA0 · hsl(260, 84%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Dusk Bright
#A03E0E · hsl(20, 84%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Dusk Bright
#870EA0 · hsl(290, 84%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Dusk Bright
#A00E26 · hsl(350, 84%, 34%)
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Base: Seafoam Dusk Bright #0EA03E
Lighter companion: Seafoam Velvet Bright #11C54D
Darker companion: Seafoam Shadow Bright #0B8333
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Dusk Bright #A00E6F
Analogous lead: Teal Dusk Bright #0EA06F
Analogous echo: Clover Dusk Bright #1AA00E
Triadic +120°: Orchid Dusk Bright #3E0EA0
Triadic +240°: Ember Dusk Bright #A03E0E
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Dusk Bright #870EA0
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Dusk Bright #A00E26

Compare

See how Seafoam Dusk Bright compares side by side with related colors.

vsSeafoam Velvet BrightvsSeafoam Shadow BrightvsRose Dusk BrightvsTeal Dusk BrightvsClover Dusk BrightvsOrchid Dusk Bright

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Pure
#07A63C · hsl(140, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Bright
#0B8333 · hsl(140, 84%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Vivid
#179741 · hsl(140, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Dusk Bright
#0EA04B · hsl(145, 84%, 34%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Velvet Bright
#11C54D · hsl(140, 84%, 42%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Pure
#068932 · hsl(140, 92%, 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
AA4.6:1
Rose Ink Faint
#272025
AA4.7:1
Rose Ink Muted
#2A1D26
AA4.7:1
Rose Ink Dust
#2D1A27
AA4.8:1
Rose Ink Soft
#301828
AA4.8:1
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A
AA4.8:1
Rose Ink Vivid
#3E092D

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#675D68
Protanopia
#6E6F62
Tritanopia
#297679
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Seafoam Dusk Faint#4E5F54 · hsl(140, 10%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Muted#476651 · hsl(140, 18%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Dust#406D4F · hsl(140, 26%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Soft#39744D · hsl(140, 34%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Clear#288647 · hsl(140, 54%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Vivid#179741 · hsl(140, 74%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Bright#0EA03E · hsl(140, 84%, 34%)Seafoam Dusk Pure#07A63C · hsl(140, 92%, 34%)
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