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Celadon Velvet Clear
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Celadon Velvet Clear

Green · Hue 145
Hex
#31A561
RGB
rgb(49, 165, 97)
HSL
hsl(145, 54%, 42%)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 0%, 41%, 35%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 42%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
3.1:1AA Large
on black
6.7:1AA
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About this color

Celadon Velvet Clear (#31A561) belongs to the green family — hue 145°, 54% saturation, 42% 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-velvet-clear: #31A561;
  --colorarchive-celadon-velvet-clear-hsl: hsl(145, 54%, 42%);
  --colorarchive-celadon-velvet-clear-rgb: rgb(49, 165, 97);
}

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

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 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 #31A561.

  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #31A561.

  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →
  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →
  • VietnamJade River
    #3F8B7E · Halong Bay limestone water
    →

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 Core Clear
#38BC6F · hsl(145, 54%, 48%)
Darker companion
Celadon Dusk Clear
#28864F · hsl(145, 54%, 34%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Velvet Clear
#A5317E · hsl(320, 54%, 42%)
Analogous lead
Lagoon Velvet Clear
#31A592 · hsl(170, 54%, 42%)
Analogous echo
Emerald Velvet Clear
#31A531 · hsl(120, 54%, 42%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Velvet Clear
#5831A5 · hsl(260, 54%, 42%)
Triadic +240°
Tangerine Velvet Clear
#A56131 · hsl(25, 54%, 42%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Velvet Clear
#9231A5 · hsl(290, 54%, 42%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Velvet Clear
#A53131 · hsl(0, 54%, 42%)
Export preview
Base: Celadon Velvet Clear #31A561
Lighter companion: Celadon Core Clear #38BC6F
Darker companion: Celadon Dusk Clear #28864F
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Velvet Clear #A5317E
Analogous lead: Lagoon Velvet Clear #31A592
Analogous echo: Emerald Velvet Clear #31A531
Triadic +120°: Orchid Velvet Clear #5831A5
Triadic +240°: Tangerine Velvet Clear #A56131
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Velvet Clear #9231A5
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Velvet Clear #A53131

Compare

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

vsCeladon Core ClearvsCeladon Dusk ClearvsRose Velvet ClearvsLagoon Velvet ClearvsEmerald Velvet ClearvsOrchid Velvet Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Celadon Core Clear
#38BC6F · hsl(145, 54%, 48%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Velvet Clear
#31A558 · hsl(140, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Jade Velvet Clear
#31A56B · hsl(150, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Celadon Dusk Clear
#28864F · hsl(145, 54%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Radiant Clear
#4AC97F · hsl(145, 54%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Velvet Soft
#479065 · hsl(145, 34%, 42%)

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
AA5.1:1
Rose Ink Faint
#272025
AA5.1:1
Rose Ink Muted
#2A1D26
AA5.2:1
Rose Ink Dust
#2D1A27
AA5.2:1
Rose Ink Soft
#301828
AA5.3:1
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A
AA5.2:1
Rose Ink Vivid
#3E092D

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#6F677B
Protanopia
#767776
Tritanopia
#3E8487
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