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Seafoam Shadow Soft
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Seafoam Shadow Soft

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 34% · L 28%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white7.3:1AAon black2.9:1Fail
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About this color

Seafoam Shadow Soft (#2F603F) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 34% saturation, 28% 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-shadow-soft: #2F603F;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-shadow-soft-hsl: hsl(140, 34%, 28%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-shadow-soft-rgb: rgb(47, 96, 63);
}

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 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 #2F603F.

  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • Xiaohongshu 小红书neutral
    Slate Text · #333333
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #2F603F.

  • ScandinaviaForest Green
    #3D5B49 · Spruce / fir forest in winter light
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

Color History1970s Earth Tone Colors: Harvest Gold, Avocado Green & Burnt Orange PalettesUI DesignColor in Financial UI: Trust, Data Visualization, and the Red/Green ConventionColor TheoryColor in Healthcare Design: Building Palettes That Heal

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 Dusk Soft
#39744D · hsl(140, 34%, 34%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Nocturne Soft
#22442D · hsl(140, 34%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Shadow Soft
#602F4F · hsl(320, 34%, 28%)
Analogous lead
Teal Shadow Soft
#2F604F · hsl(160, 34%, 28%)
Analogous echo
Clover Shadow Soft
#33602F · hsl(115, 34%, 28%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Shadow Soft
#3F2F60 · hsl(260, 34%, 28%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Shadow Soft
#603F2F · hsl(20, 34%, 28%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Shadow Soft
#582F60 · hsl(290, 34%, 28%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Shadow Soft
#602F37 · hsl(350, 34%, 28%)
Export preview
Base: Seafoam Shadow Soft #2F603F
Lighter companion: Seafoam Dusk Soft #39744D
Darker companion: Seafoam Nocturne Soft #22442D
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Shadow Soft #602F4F
Analogous lead: Teal Shadow Soft #2F604F
Analogous echo: Clover Shadow Soft #33602F
Triadic +120°: Orchid Shadow Soft #3F2F60
Triadic +240°: Ember Shadow Soft #603F2F
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Shadow Soft #582F60
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Shadow Soft #602F37

Compare

See how Seafoam Shadow Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsSeafoam Dusk SoftvsSeafoam Nocturne SoftvsRose Shadow SoftvsTeal Shadow SoftvsClover Shadow SoftvsOrchid Shadow Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Dust
#355A41 · hsl(140, 26%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Soft
#39744D · hsl(140, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Soft
#2F6043 · hsl(145, 34%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Nocturne Soft
#22442D · hsl(140, 34%, 20%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Muted
#3B5443 · hsl(140, 18%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Dust
#406D4F · hsl(140, 26%, 34%)

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
Rose Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA7:1
Rose Veil Muted
#FBF9FA
AAA7:1
Rose Veil Dust
#FBF9FA
AAA7:1
Rose Veil Soft
#FCF8FA
AAA7:1
Peony Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA7:1
Peony Veil Muted
#FBF9FB

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#46424B
Protanopia
#494949
Tritanopia
#334F51
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Seafoam Shadow Faint#404F45 · hsl(140, 10%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Muted#3B5443 · hsl(140, 18%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Dust#355A41 · hsl(140, 26%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Soft#2F603F · hsl(140, 34%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Clear#216E3B · hsl(140, 54%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Vivid#137C36 · hsl(140, 74%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Bright#0B8333 · hsl(140, 84%, 28%)Seafoam Shadow Pure#068932 · hsl(140, 92%, 28%)
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