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Jade Shadow Clear
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Jade Shadow Clear

Teal · Hue 150
Hex
#216E47
RGB
rgb(33, 110, 71)
HSL
hsl(150, 54%, 28%)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 0%, 35%, 57%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 28%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
6.2:1AA
on black
3.4:1AA Large
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About this color

Jade Shadow Clear (#216E47) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 54% 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-jade-shadow-clear: #216E47;
  --colorarchive-jade-shadow-clear-hsl: hsl(150, 54%, 28%);
  --colorarchive-jade-shadow-clear-rgb: rgb(33, 110, 71);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

DeepProfessionalStable
Common in

Corporate Software · Consulting · Marine

Pairs well with

White for sharp contrast, light coral for warmth, silver for tech

Design tip

Use as a dark theme primary or sidebar background. Deep teal is less harsh than pure black while maintaining professionalism.

Cultural context ▶

Deep teal evokes deep ocean waters — stability, depth, and hidden knowledge. Common in corporate and maritime contexts.

Color Origins

Teal family

The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.

Heritage

Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, whose wing patches sit at exactly this hue. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both made from copper-calcium silicate around 2,500 BCE, sit in this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) is teal because copper carbonate forms there; Bacon's verdigris is the same chemistry. Phthalo turquoise and cobalt teal are 20th-century pigments.

Across cultures

In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.

In the wild

Hospital scrubs are teal because it's the perceptual complement of red blood — staring at red and then looking away produces a green-teal afterimage, and matching the scrubs to that afterimage reduces eye fatigue. Tiffany's blue is a calibrated teal, trademarked as PMS 1837 (their founding year). Most Pixar films grade their shadows toward teal because warm skin against cool shadow is the most legible cinematographic combination. The Apple Watch SE, the Surface Pro, and the new Macs all use teal as a 'calming-but-modern' accent.

How it reads

Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical; it's the dominant accent color in healthcare and trust-led fintech for that reason. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).

This particular tone

A deep, weighted version of the hue — formal, considered, and pairs especially well with off-white and warm metallic accents.

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 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 #216E47.

  • Starbucksprimary
    Starbucks Green · #006241
    →
  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Patagoniaprimary
    Patagonia Sky Blue · #0061AC
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #216E47.

  • BrazilAmazon Green
    #1B6D3F · Tropical rainforest canopy
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →

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
Jade Dusk Clear
#288657 · hsl(150, 54%, 34%)
Darker companion
Jade Nocturne Clear
#174F33 · hsl(150, 54%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Blush Shadow Clear
#6E2147 · hsl(330, 54%, 28%)
Analogous lead
Cyan Shadow Clear
#216E68 · hsl(175, 54%, 28%)
Analogous echo
Mint Shadow Clear
#216E2E · hsl(130, 54%, 28%)
Triadic +120°
Plum Shadow Clear
#47216E · hsl(270, 54%, 28%)
Triadic +240°
Coral Shadow Clear
#6E4721 · hsl(30, 54%, 28%)
Split-comp +150°
Fuchsia Shadow Clear
#6E216E · hsl(300, 54%, 28%)
Split-comp +210°
Crimson Shadow Clear
#6E2121 · hsl(0, 54%, 28%)
Export preview
Base: Jade Shadow Clear #216E47
Lighter companion: Jade Dusk Clear #288657
Darker companion: Jade Nocturne Clear #174F33
Complementary counterpoint: Blush Shadow Clear #6E2147
Analogous lead: Cyan Shadow Clear #216E68
Analogous echo: Mint Shadow Clear #216E2E
Triadic +120°: Plum Shadow Clear #47216E
Triadic +240°: Coral Shadow Clear #6E4721
Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Shadow Clear #6E216E
Split-comp +210°: Crimson Shadow Clear #6E2121

Compare

See how Jade Shadow Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsJade Dusk ClearvsJade Nocturne ClearvsBlush Shadow ClearvsCyan Shadow ClearvsMint Shadow ClearvsPlum Shadow Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Jade Dusk Clear
#288657 · hsl(150, 54%, 34%)
Nearby match
Celadon Shadow Clear
#216E41 · hsl(145, 54%, 28%)
Nearby match
Jade Nocturne Clear
#174F33 · hsl(150, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Jade Shadow Soft
#2F6047 · hsl(150, 34%, 28%)
Nearby match
Jade Shadow Vivid
#137C47 · hsl(150, 74%, 28%)
Nearby match
Celadon Dusk Clear
#28864F · hsl(145, 54%, 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
AA5.9:1
Blush Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AA5.9:1
Blush Veil Muted
#FBF9FA
AA5.9:1
Blush Veil Dust
#FBF9FA
AA5.9:1
Blush Veil Soft
#FCF8FA
AA5.9:1
Blush Veil Clear
#FDF7FA
AA5.8:1
Blush Veil Vivid
#FEF6FA

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#4A4455
Protanopia
#4E4F53
Tritanopia
#295A5C
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