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Seafoam Shadow Vivid

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 74% · L 28%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white5.3:1AAon black4:1AA Large
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About this color

Seafoam Shadow Vivid (#137C36) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 74% 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-vivid: #137C36;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-shadow-vivid-hsl: hsl(140, 74%, 28%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-shadow-vivid-rgb: rgb(19, 124, 54);
}

AI Color Names

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

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 #137C36.

  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →
  • OpenAIaccent
    ChatGPT Green · #10A37F
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #137C36.

  • BrazilAmazon Green
    #1B6D3F · Tropical rainforest canopy
    →
  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • 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 ConventionDesign SystemsColor Token Naming Conventions: Primitive, Semantic, and Component Layers

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 Vivid
#179741 · hsl(140, 74%, 34%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Nocturne Vivid
#0D5926 · hsl(140, 74%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Shadow Vivid
#7C1359 · hsl(320, 74%, 28%)
Analogous lead
Teal Shadow Vivid
#137C59 · hsl(160, 74%, 28%)
Analogous echo
Clover Shadow Vivid
#1B7C13 · hsl(115, 74%, 28%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Shadow Vivid
#36137C · hsl(260, 74%, 28%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Shadow Vivid
#7C3613 · hsl(20, 74%, 28%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Shadow Vivid
#6B137C · hsl(290, 74%, 28%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Shadow Vivid
#7C1324 · hsl(350, 74%, 28%)
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Base: Seafoam Shadow Vivid #137C36
Lighter companion: Seafoam Dusk Vivid #179741
Darker companion: Seafoam Nocturne Vivid #0D5926
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Shadow Vivid #7C1359
Analogous lead: Teal Shadow Vivid #137C59
Analogous echo: Clover Shadow Vivid #1B7C13
Triadic +120°: Orchid Shadow Vivid #36137C
Triadic +240°: Ember Shadow Vivid #7C3613
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Shadow Vivid #6B137C
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Shadow Vivid #7C1324

Compare

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

vsSeafoam Dusk VividvsSeafoam Nocturne VividvsRose Shadow VividvsTeal Shadow VividvsClover Shadow VividvsOrchid Shadow Vivid

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Vivid
#179741 · hsl(140, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Bright
#0B8333 · hsl(140, 84%, 28%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Vivid
#137C3F · hsl(145, 74%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Nocturne Vivid
#0D5926 · hsl(140, 74%, 20%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Shadow Pure
#068932 · hsl(140, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Dusk Bright
#0EA03E · hsl(140, 84%, 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
AA5:1
Rose Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AA5.1:1
Rose Veil Muted
#FBF9FA
AA5.1:1
Rose Veil Dust
#FBF9FA
AA5:1
Rose Veil Soft
#FCF8FA
AA5:1
Rose Veil Clear
#FDF7FB
AA5:1
Rose Veil Vivid
#FEF6FB

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#504853
Protanopia
#55564E
Tritanopia
#225D5F
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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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