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Clover Shadow Pure
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Clover Shadow Pure

Green · Hue 115
Hex
#118906
RGB
rgb(17, 137, 6)
HSL
hsl(115, 92%, 28%)
CMYK
cmyk(88%, 0%, 96%, 46%)
Metrics
S 92% · L 28%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
4.6:1AA
on black
4.6:1AA
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About this color

Clover Shadow Pure (#118906) belongs to the green family — hue 115°, 92% saturation, 28% 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-clover-shadow-pure: #118906;
  --colorarchive-clover-shadow-pure-hsl: hsl(115, 92%, 28%);
  --colorarchive-clover-shadow-pure-rgb: rgb(17, 137, 6);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

PrestigiousTimelessAuthoritative
Common in

Banking · Law Firms · Luxury Real Estate

Pairs well with

Gold, ivory, or warm white for classic elegance

Design tip

Excellent for dark mode themes and premium interfaces. Deep green with gold accents creates an instantly luxurious feel.

Cultural context ▶

Deep greens like forest and hunter green evoke tradition, wealth, and the British countryside. Common in Ivy League 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 jewel tone — saturated and dark at once. This is the register of velvet, deep enamel, and old-world luxury.

Lightness band: At this depth the hue starts behaving like a neutral — it can substitute for black in many contexts while still carrying a faint chromatic temperature. It pairs especially well with off-whites and warm metallics.

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 #118906.

  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →
  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #118906.

  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • BrazilAmazon Green
    #1B6D3F · Tropical rainforest canopy
    →
  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →

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
Clover Dusk Pure
#14A607 · hsl(115, 92%, 34%)
Darker companion
Clover Nocturne Pure
#0C6204 · hsl(115, 92%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Shadow Pure
#730689 · hsl(290, 92%, 28%)
Analogous lead
Seafoam Shadow Pure
#068932 · hsl(140, 92%, 28%)
Analogous echo
Lime Shadow Pure
#478906 · hsl(90, 92%, 28%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Shadow Pure
#061C89 · hsl(230, 92%, 28%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Shadow Pure
#890606 · hsl(0, 92%, 28%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Shadow Pure
#320689 · hsl(260, 92%, 28%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Shadow Pure
#89065D · hsl(320, 92%, 28%)
Export preview
Base: Clover Shadow Pure #118906
Lighter companion: Clover Dusk Pure #14A607
Darker companion: Clover Nocturne Pure #0C6204
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Shadow Pure #730689
Analogous lead: Seafoam Shadow Pure #068932
Analogous echo: Lime Shadow Pure #478906
Triadic +120°: Indigo Shadow Pure #061C89
Triadic +240°: Crimson Shadow Pure #890606
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Shadow Pure #320689
Split-comp +210°: Rose Shadow Pure #89065D

Compare

See how Clover Shadow Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsClover Dusk PurevsClover Nocturne PurevsMagenta Shadow PurevsSeafoam Shadow PurevsLime Shadow PurevsIndigo Shadow Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Clover Shadow Bright
#15830B · hsl(115, 84%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Pure
#14A607 · hsl(115, 92%, 34%)
Nearby match
Leaf Shadow Pure
#1C8906 · hsl(110, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Emerald Shadow Pure
#068906 · hsl(120, 92%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Nocturne Pure
#0C6204 · hsl(115, 92%, 20%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Bright
#1AA00E · hsl(115, 84%, 34%)

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
Saffron Veil Pure
#FFFCF5
AA4.5:1
Amber Veil Bright
#FEFDF6
AA4.5:1
Amber Veil Pure
#FFFDF5
AA4.5:1
Aqua Veil Vivid
#F6FEFE
AA4.5:1
Aqua Veil Bright
#F6FEFE
AA4.5:1
Aqua Veil Pure
#F5FFFF

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#584F4E
Protanopia
#5E5F46
Tritanopia
#245D61
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