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Seafoam Tone Pure
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Seafoam Tone Pure

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 92% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.4:1Failon black14.8:1AA
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About this color

Seafoam Tone Pure (#3BF77A) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 92% 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-seafoam-tone-pure: #3BF77A;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-tone-pure-hsl: hsl(140, 92%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-tone-pure-rgb: rgb(59, 247, 122);
}

AI Color Names

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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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: 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 #3BF77A.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #3BF77A.

  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →

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 Craft and Artisan Design: Working with Material Constraints

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 Silk Pure
#62F894 · hsl(140, 92%, 68%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Radiant Pure
#1EF666 · hsl(140, 92%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Tone Pure
#F73BB8 · hsl(320, 92%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Teal Tone Pure
#3BF7B8 · hsl(160, 92%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Clover Tone Pure
#4BF73B · hsl(115, 92%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Tone Pure
#7A3BF7 · hsl(260, 92%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Tone Pure
#F77A3B · hsl(20, 92%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Tone Pure
#D83BF7 · hsl(290, 92%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Tone Pure
#F73B5A · hsl(350, 92%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Seafoam Tone Pure #3BF77A
Lighter companion: Seafoam Silk Pure #62F894
Darker companion: Seafoam Radiant Pure #1EF666
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Tone Pure #F73BB8
Analogous lead: Teal Tone Pure #3BF7B8
Analogous echo: Clover Tone Pure #4BF73B
Triadic +120°: Orchid Tone Pure #7A3BF7
Triadic +240°: Ember Tone Pure #F77A3B
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Tone Pure #D83BF7
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Tone Pure #F73B5A

Compare

See how Seafoam Tone Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsSeafoam Silk PurevsSeafoam Radiant PurevsRose Tone PurevsTeal Tone PurevsClover Tone PurevsOrchid Tone Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Bright
#43EF7C · hsl(140, 84%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Pure
#1EF666 · hsl(140, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Pure
#3BF789 · hsl(145, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Silk Pure
#62F894 · hsl(140, 92%, 68%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Bright
#27EC69 · hsl(140, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Vivid
#4EE480 · hsl(140, 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
Rose Shadow Muted
#543B4C
AAA7.2:1
Rose Shadow Dust
#5A354E
AAA7.3:1
Rose Shadow Soft
#602F4F
AAA7.4:1
Rose Shadow Clear
#6E2154
AAA7.1:1
Rose Shadow Vivid
#7C1359
AAA9.2:1
Rose Nocturne Faint
#382E35

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A597AD
Protanopia
#AFB0A4
Tritanopia
#54BEC3
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Seafoam Tone Faint#8FA396 · hsl(140, 10%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Muted#87AB93 · hsl(140, 18%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Dust#7EB490 · hsl(140, 26%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Soft#76BC8D · hsl(140, 34%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Clear#62D087 · hsl(140, 54%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Vivid#4EE480 · hsl(140, 74%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Bright#43EF7C · hsl(140, 84%, 60%)Seafoam Tone Pure#3BF77A · hsl(140, 92%, 60%)
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