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Seafoam Tone Soft

Green · Hue 140
Metrics
S 34% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.2:1Failon black9.3:1AA
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About this color

Seafoam Tone Soft (#76BC8D) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 34% 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-soft: #76BC8D;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-tone-soft-hsl: hsl(140, 34%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-tone-soft-rgb: rgb(118, 188, 141);
}

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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 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 #76BC8D.

  • Anthropicaccent
    Anthropic Blue · #6A9BCC
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  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
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  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #76BC8D.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →
  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →

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 Gradients in Design: Types, Color Space Choices, and Avoiding Common Mistakes

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 Soft
#92C9A4 · hsl(140, 34%, 68%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Radiant Soft
#62B27C · hsl(140, 34%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Tone Soft
#BC76A5 · hsl(320, 34%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Teal Tone Soft
#76BCA5 · hsl(160, 34%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Clover Tone Soft
#7CBC76 · hsl(115, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Tone Soft
#8D76BC · hsl(260, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Tone Soft
#BC8D76 · hsl(20, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Tone Soft
#B076BC · hsl(290, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Tone Soft
#BC7682 · hsl(350, 34%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Seafoam Tone Soft #76BC8D
Lighter companion: Seafoam Silk Soft #92C9A4
Darker companion: Seafoam Radiant Soft #62B27C
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Tone Soft #BC76A5
Analogous lead: Teal Tone Soft #76BCA5
Analogous echo: Clover Tone Soft #7CBC76
Triadic +120°: Orchid Tone Soft #8D76BC
Triadic +240°: Ember Tone Soft #BC8D76
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Tone Soft #B076BC
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Tone Soft #BC7682

Compare

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

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

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Dust
#7EB490 · hsl(140, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Soft
#62B27C · hsl(140, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Tone Soft
#76BC93 · hsl(145, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Silk Soft
#92C9A4 · hsl(140, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Tone Muted
#87AB93 · hsl(140, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Dust
#6BA880 · hsl(140, 26%, 54%)

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
AAA7.1:1
Rose Ink Faint
#272025
AAA7.2:1
Rose Ink Muted
#2A1D26
AAA7.3:1
Rose Ink Dust
#2D1A27
AAA7.3:1
Rose Ink Soft
#301828
AAA7.4:1
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A
AAA7.3:1
Rose Ink Vivid
#3E092D

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#95909D
Protanopia
#999A9A
Tritanopia
#7BA4A5
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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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