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Emerald Dusk Dust
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Emerald Dusk Dust

Green · Hue 120
Hex
#406D40
RGB
rgb(64, 109, 64)
HSL
hsl(120, 26%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(41%, 0%, 41%, 57%)
Metrics
S 26% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
6:1AA
on black
3.5:1AA Large
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About this color

Emerald Dusk Dust (#406D40) belongs to the green family — hue 120°, 26% saturation, 34% 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-emerald-dusk-dust: #406D40;
  --colorarchive-emerald-dusk-dust-hsl: hsl(120, 26%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-emerald-dusk-dust-rgb: rgb(64, 109, 64);
}

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 dim, atmospheric reading — closer to a colored shadow than a stated hue. Excellent as a near-black on dark UI or as a moody background.

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: 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 #406D40.

  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →
  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #406D40.

  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →
  • ScandinaviaForest Green
    #3D5B49 · Spruce / fir forest in winter 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
Emerald Velvet Dust
#4F874F · hsl(120, 26%, 42%)
Darker companion
Emerald Shadow Dust
#355A35 · hsl(120, 26%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Fuchsia Dusk Dust
#6D406D · hsl(300, 26%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Celadon Dusk Dust
#406D53 · hsl(145, 26%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Moss Dusk Dust
#4F6D40 · hsl(100, 26%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Iris Dusk Dust
#40406D · hsl(240, 26%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Dusk Dust
#6D4040 · hsl(0, 26%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Plum Dusk Dust
#57406D · hsl(270, 26%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Blush Dusk Dust
#6D4057 · hsl(330, 26%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Emerald Dusk Dust #406D40
Lighter companion: Emerald Velvet Dust #4F874F
Darker companion: Emerald Shadow Dust #355A35
Complementary counterpoint: Fuchsia Dusk Dust #6D406D
Analogous lead: Celadon Dusk Dust #406D53
Analogous echo: Moss Dusk Dust #4F6D40
Triadic +120°: Iris Dusk Dust #40406D
Triadic +240°: Crimson Dusk Dust #6D4040
Split-comp +150°: Plum Dusk Dust #57406D
Split-comp +210°: Blush Dusk Dust #6D4057

Compare

See how Emerald Dusk Dust compares side by side with related colors.

vsEmerald Velvet DustvsEmerald Shadow DustvsFuchsia Dusk DustvsCeladon Dusk DustvsMoss Dusk DustvsIris Dusk Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Emerald Dusk Muted
#476647 · hsl(120, 18%, 34%)
Nearby match
Emerald Dusk Soft
#397439 · hsl(120, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Emerald Shadow Dust
#355A35 · hsl(120, 26%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Dust
#446D40 · hsl(115, 26%, 34%)
Nearby match
Emerald Velvet Dust
#4F874F · hsl(120, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Emerald Dusk Faint
#4E5F4E · hsl(120, 10%, 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
AA5.7:1
Fuchsia Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AA5.8:1
Fuchsia Veil Muted
#FBF9FB
AA5.8:1
Fuchsia Veil Dust
#FBF9FB
AA5.7:1
Fuchsia Veil Soft
#FCF8FC
AA5.7:1
Fuchsia Veil Clear
#FDF7FD
AA5.7:1
Fuchsia Veil Vivid
#FEF6FE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#545151
Protanopia
#57574E
Tritanopia
#435759
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