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Seafoam Silk Soft
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Seafoam Silk Soft

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 34% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.9:1Failon black11.1:1AA
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About this color

Seafoam Silk Soft (#92C9A4) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 34% saturation, 68% 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-silk-soft: #92C9A4;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-silk-soft-hsl: hsl(140, 34%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-silk-soft-rgb: rgb(146, 201, 164);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

CalmingHealingOpen
Common in

Wellness · Meditation Apps · Healthcare

Pairs well with

Soft lavender for serenity, warm cream for organic warmth

Design tip

Perfect for health and wellness interfaces. Light greens reduce visual stress — use for backgrounds in reading-heavy layouts.

Cultural context ▶

Mint and sage greens symbolize healing, tranquility, and renewal. Common in spa and wellness 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 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 #92C9A4.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Mid Gray · #B0AEA5
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #92C9A4.

  • China (Traditional)Celadon (青瓷)
    #9CB48F · Song Dynasty Longquan kilns
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →

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 Bloom Soft
#ADD7BB · hsl(140, 34%, 76%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Tone Soft
#76BC8D · hsl(140, 34%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Silk Soft
#C992B7 · hsl(320, 34%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Teal Silk Soft
#92C9B7 · hsl(160, 34%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Clover Silk Soft
#96C992 · hsl(115, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Silk Soft
#A492C9 · hsl(260, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Silk Soft
#C9A492 · hsl(20, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Silk Soft
#C092C9 · hsl(290, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Silk Soft
#C9929B · hsl(350, 34%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Seafoam Silk Soft #92C9A4
Lighter companion: Seafoam Bloom Soft #ADD7BB
Darker companion: Seafoam Tone Soft #76BC8D
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Silk Soft #C992B7
Analogous lead: Teal Silk Soft #92C9B7
Analogous echo: Clover Silk Soft #96C992
Triadic +120°: Orchid Silk Soft #A492C9
Triadic +240°: Ember Silk Soft #C9A492
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Silk Soft #C092C9
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Silk Soft #C9929B

Compare

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

vsSeafoam Bloom SoftvsSeafoam Tone SoftvsRose Silk SoftvsTeal Silk SoftvsClover Silk SoftvsOrchid Silk Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Silk Dust
#98C3A6 · hsl(140, 26%, 68%)
Nearby match
Celadon Silk Soft
#92C9A9 · hsl(145, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Soft
#76BC8D · hsl(140, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Bloom Soft
#ADD7BB · hsl(140, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Silk Muted
#9FBCA9 · hsl(140, 18%, 68%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Silk Clear
#81D99F · hsl(140, 54%, 68%)

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 Nocturne Muted
#3C2A36
AAA7.2:1
Rose Nocturne Dust
#402637
AAA7.2:1
Rose Nocturne Soft
#442239
AAA7.3:1
Rose Nocturne Clear
#4F173C
AAA7.1:1
Rose Nocturne Vivid
#590D40
AAA7:1
Rose Nocturne Bright
#5E0841

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A9A5B0
Protanopia
#ADADAE
Tritanopia
#95B5B7
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Seafoam Silk Faint#A5B6AB · hsl(140, 10%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Muted#9FBCA9 · hsl(140, 18%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Dust#98C3A6 · hsl(140, 26%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Soft#92C9A4 · hsl(140, 34%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Clear#81D99F · hsl(140, 54%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Vivid#71EA99 · hsl(140, 74%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Bright#69F297 · hsl(140, 84%, 68%)Seafoam Silk Pure#62F894 · hsl(140, 92%, 68%)
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