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Celadon Bloom Clear
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Celadon Bloom Clear

Green · Hue 145
Hex
#A1E3BC
RGB
rgb(161, 227, 188)
HSL
hsl(145, 54%, 76%)
CMYK
cmyk(29%, 0%, 17%, 11%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 76%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.5:1Fail
on black
14.2:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Bloom Clear (#A1E3BC) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 54% saturation, 76% 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-celadon-bloom-clear: #A1E3BC;
  --colorarchive-celadon-bloom-clear-hsl: hsl(145, 54%, 76%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-bloom-clear-rgb: rgb(161, 227, 188);
}

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 the longest-running brands.

Heritage

Verdigris (copper acetate) gave medieval manuscripts 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 and Paris green, both 19th-century arsenic compounds, killed an unknown number of wallpaper-makers and Victorian children before viridian and phthalo greens replaced them. Modern green pigments are remarkably stable; the iconic Brunswick green that became British Racing Green dates to the same chemistry.

Across cultures

Green is the dominant color of Islam — the Prophet's banner, the flags of many Muslim-majority nations, the domes of mosques. In Ireland green is national identity, partly through the shamrock and partly through the political binary with orange. In Japan, green and blue (ao/midori) were a single concept until recently; traffic 'green lights' there are still a deeper teal-ish shade. Across many cultures green simultaneously means growth, fertility, envy, and the supernatural.

In the wild

Starbucks' green has barely changed since 1971. John Deere has used essentially the same green since 1837 — the longest continuous brand color in commerce. The U.S. dollar is green because of the chemistry of camphor and copper sulfate, not branding. Whatsapp, Spotify, and Heineken all anchor on green; each chose it for a different reason (community, sound, Dutch heritage). Hospital scrubs were originally white but switched to green/teal because surgeons were getting after-image fatigue.

How it reads

Green is the hue the eye is most efficient at parsing — half of all our cone cells are tuned near 555nm. That makes green the easiest color to look at for long periods, which is why it dominates productivity software, 'go' indicators, and reading-friendly UI. At low saturation it reads as natural, calm, premium (sage, olive). At high saturation it reads as urgent or playful (Mountain Dew, Slack notifications). It carries one of the strongest semantic loads in product design: 'success', 'go', 'natural', 'safe'.

This particular tone

A bright, airy reading of the hue — clean and approachable, the kind of color that holds up well in product photography and on light backgrounds.

Lightness band: At this lightness the hue almost recedes into the surface around it — useful for backgrounds, hover states, and any surface where the color should suggest a mood without competing with content.

Saturation band: The clear, mid-saturation register is the most 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 #A1E3BC.

  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #A1E3BC.

  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →
  • France (Paris)Lutetian Limestone
    #E5DDC8 · Paris facade stone (Haussmannian-era buildings)
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →

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
Celadon Pearl Clear
#C0ECD3 · hsl(145, 54%, 84%)
Darker companion
Celadon Silk Clear
#81D9A6 · hsl(145, 54%, 68%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Bloom Clear
#E3A1CD · hsl(320, 54%, 76%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Bloom Clear
#A1E3D8 · hsl(170, 54%, 76%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Bloom Clear
#A1E3A1 · hsl(120, 54%, 76%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Bloom Clear
#B7A1E3 · hsl(260, 54%, 76%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Bloom Clear
#E3BCA1 · hsl(25, 54%, 76%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Bloom Clear
#D8A1E3 · hsl(290, 54%, 76%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Bloom Clear
#E3A1A1 · hsl(0, 54%, 76%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Bloom Clear #A1E3BC
Lighter companion: Celadon Pearl Clear #C0ECD3
Darker companion: Celadon Silk Clear #81D9A6
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Bloom Clear #E3A1CD
Analogous lead: Lagoon Bloom Clear #A1E3D8
Analogous echo: Emerald Bloom Clear #A1E3A1
Triadic +120°: Orchid Bloom Clear #B7A1E3
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Bloom Clear #E3BCA1
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Bloom Clear #D8A1E3
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Bloom Clear #E3A1A1

Compare

See how Celadon Bloom Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsCeladon Pearl ClearvsCeladon Silk ClearvsRose Bloom ClearvsLagoon Bloom ClearvsEmerald Bloom ClearvsOrchid Bloom Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Bloom Clear
#A1E3B7 · hsl(140, 54%, 76%)
Nearby match
Jade Bloom Clear
#A1E3C2 · hsl(150, 54%, 76%)
Nearby match
Celadon Silk Clear
#81D9A6 · hsl(145, 54%, 68%)
Nearby match
Celadon Pearl Clear
#C0ECD3 · hsl(145, 54%, 84%)
Nearby match
Celadon Bloom Soft
#ADD7BE · hsl(145, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Celadon Bloom Vivid
#95EFBA · hsl(145, 74%, 76%)

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 Shadow Soft
#602F4F
AAA7.1:1
Rose Shadow Clear
#6E2154
AAA8.8:1
Rose Nocturne Faint
#382E35
AAA9:1
Rose Nocturne Muted
#3C2A36
AAA9.2:1
Rose Nocturne Dust
#402637
AAA9.3:1
Rose Nocturne Soft
#442239

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#BDB8C9
Protanopia
#C1C2C6
Tritanopia
#A5CED0
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