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Emerald Radiant Pure
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Emerald Radiant Pure

Green · Hue 120
Hex
#1EF61E
RGB
rgb(30, 246, 30)
HSL
hsl(120, 92%, 54%)
CMYK
cmyk(88%, 0%, 88%, 4%)
Metrics
S 92% · L 54%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.5:1Fail
on black
14.3:1AA
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About this color

Emerald Radiant Pure (#1EF61E) belongs to the green family — hue 120°, 92% saturation, 54% 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-radiant-pure: #1EF61E;
  --colorarchive-emerald-radiant-pure-hsl: hsl(120, 92%, 54%);
  --colorarchive-emerald-radiant-pure-rgb: rgb(30, 246, 30);
}

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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: 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 #1EF61E.

  • Stripeaccent
    Success Green · #00D924
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →

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 Tone Pure
#3BF73B · hsl(120, 92%, 60%)
Darker companion
Emerald Core Pure
#0AEB0A · hsl(120, 92%, 48%)
Complementary counterpoint
Fuchsia Radiant Pure
#F61EF6 · hsl(300, 92%, 54%)
Analogous lead
Celadon Radiant Pure
#1EF678 · hsl(145, 92%, 54%)
Analogous echo
Moss Radiant Pure
#66F61E · hsl(100, 92%, 54%)
Triadic +120°
Iris Radiant Pure
#1E1EF6 · hsl(240, 92%, 54%)
Triadic +240°
Crimson Radiant Pure
#F61E1E · hsl(0, 92%, 54%)
Split-comp +150°
Plum Radiant Pure
#8A1EF6 · hsl(270, 92%, 54%)
Split-comp +210°
Blush Radiant Pure
#F61E8A · hsl(330, 92%, 54%)
Export preview
Base: Emerald Radiant Pure #1EF61E
Lighter companion: Emerald Tone Pure #3BF73B
Darker companion: Emerald Core Pure #0AEB0A
Complementary counterpoint: Fuchsia Radiant Pure #F61EF6
Analogous lead: Celadon Radiant Pure #1EF678
Analogous echo: Moss Radiant Pure #66F61E
Triadic +120°: Iris Radiant Pure #1E1EF6
Triadic +240°: Crimson Radiant Pure #F61E1E
Split-comp +150°: Plum Radiant Pure #8A1EF6
Split-comp +210°: Blush Radiant Pure #F61E8A

Compare

See how Emerald Radiant Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsEmerald Tone PurevsEmerald Core PurevsFuchsia Radiant PurevsCeladon Radiant PurevsMoss Radiant PurevsIris Radiant Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Emerald Radiant Bright
#27EC27 · hsl(120, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Emerald Core Pure
#0AEB0A · hsl(120, 92%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Tone Pure
#3BF73B · hsl(120, 92%, 60%)
Nearby match
Clover Radiant Pure
#30F61E · hsl(115, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Emerald Core Bright
#14E114 · hsl(120, 84%, 48%)
Nearby match
Emerald Tone Bright
#43EF43 · hsl(120, 84%, 60%)

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
AAA8.8:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Faint
#382E38
AAA9:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Muted
#3C2A3C
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Dust
#402640
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Soft
#442244
AAA9.1:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Clear
#4F174F
AAA8.8:1
Fuchsia Nocturne Vivid
#590D59

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A09292
Protanopia
#ABAC84
Tritanopia
#44ABB2
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