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Celadon Core Faint
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Celadon Core Faint

Green · Hue 145
Hex
#6E8778
RGB
rgb(110, 135, 120)
HSL
hsl(145, 10%, 48%)
CMYK
cmyk(19%, 0%, 11%, 47%)
Metrics
S 10% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
3.9:1AA Large
on black
5.4:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Core Faint (#6E8778) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 10% saturation, 48% 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-core-faint: #6E8778;
  --colorarchive-celadon-core-faint-hsl: hsl(145, 10%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-core-faint-rgb: rgb(110, 135, 120);
}

AI Color Names

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

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 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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #6E8778.

  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →
  • Linearprimary
    Linear Indigo · #5E6AD2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #6E8778.

  • France (Paris)Seine Steel
    #7E8A93 · River reflectivity in winter
    →
  • VietnamRice Paddy Green
    #5F8D4E · Mekong Delta
    →
  • England (London)Plane Tree Green
    #5C7A5A · Platanus × hispanica, London street tree
    →

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 Radiant Faint
#7E9588 · hsl(145, 10%, 54%)
Darker companion
Celadon Velvet Faint
#607669 · hsl(145, 10%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Core Faint
#876E7E · hsl(320, 10%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Core Faint
#6E8783 · hsl(170, 10%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Core Faint
#6E876E · hsl(120, 10%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Core Faint
#766E87 · hsl(260, 10%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Core Faint
#87786E · hsl(25, 10%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Core Faint
#836E87 · hsl(290, 10%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Core Faint
#876E6E · hsl(0, 10%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Core Faint #6E8778
Lighter companion: Celadon Radiant Faint #7E9588
Darker companion: Celadon Velvet Faint #607669
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Core Faint #876E7E
Analogous lead: Lagoon Core Faint #6E8783
Analogous echo: Emerald Core Faint #6E876E
Triadic +120°: Orchid Core Faint #766E87
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Core Faint #87786E
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Core Faint #836E87
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Core Faint #876E6E

Compare

See how Celadon Core Faint compares side by side with related colors.

vsCeladon Radiant FaintvsCeladon Velvet FaintvsRose Core FaintvsLagoon Core FaintvsEmerald Core FaintvsOrchid Core Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Celadon Core Muted
#649077 · hsl(145, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Celadon Velvet Faint
#607669 · hsl(145, 10%, 42%)
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Faint
#7E9588 · hsl(145, 10%, 54%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Core Faint
#6E8776 · hsl(140, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Jade Core Faint
#6E877A · hsl(150, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Celadon Core Dust
#5B9A75 · hsl(145, 26%, 48%)

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
AA4.5:1
Plum Ink Clear
#241037
AA4.6:1
Plum Ink Vivid
#24093E
AA4.6:1
Plum Ink Bright
#240642
AA4.6:1
Plum Ink Pure
#240345
AA4.6:1
Orchid Ink Clear
#1D1037
AA4.7:1
Orchid Ink Vivid
#1B093E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#78767D
Protanopia
#7A7A7C
Tritanopia
#6F7F7F
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