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Leaf Dusk Clear
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Leaf Dusk Clear

Green · Hue 110
Hex
#378628
RGB
rgb(55, 134, 40)
HSL
hsl(110, 54%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(59%, 0%, 70%, 47%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
4.6:1AA
on black
4.6:1AA
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About this color

Leaf Dusk Clear (#378628) belongs to the green family — hue 110°, 54% 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-leaf-dusk-clear: #378628;
  --colorarchive-leaf-dusk-clear-hsl: hsl(110, 54%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-leaf-dusk-clear-rgb: rgb(55, 134, 40);
}

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 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 #378628.

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

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #378628.

  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →
  • BrazilAmazon Green
    #1B6D3F · Tropical rainforest canopy
    →

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
Leaf Velvet Clear
#45A531 · hsl(110, 54%, 42%)
Darker companion
Leaf Shadow Clear
#2E6E21 · hsl(110, 54%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Dusk Clear
#762886 · hsl(290, 54%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Mint Dusk Clear
#288637 · hsl(130, 54%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Lime Dusk Clear
#578628 · hsl(90, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Dusk Clear
#283786 · hsl(230, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Merlot Dusk Clear
#862837 · hsl(350, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Dusk Clear
#472886 · hsl(260, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Dusk Clear
#862866 · hsl(320, 54%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Leaf Dusk Clear #378628
Lighter companion: Leaf Velvet Clear #45A531
Darker companion: Leaf Shadow Clear #2E6E21
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Dusk Clear #762886
Analogous lead: Mint Dusk Clear #288637
Analogous echo: Lime Dusk Clear #578628
Triadic +120°: Indigo Dusk Clear #283786
Triadic +240°: Merlot Dusk Clear #862837
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Dusk Clear #472886
Split-comp +210°: Rose Dusk Clear #862866

Compare

See how Leaf Dusk Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsLeaf Velvet ClearvsLeaf Shadow ClearvsMagenta Dusk ClearvsMint Dusk ClearvsLime Dusk ClearvsIndigo Dusk Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Leaf Shadow Clear
#2E6E21 · hsl(110, 54%, 28%)
Nearby match
Clover Dusk Clear
#308628 · hsl(115, 54%, 34%)
Nearby match
Leaf Velvet Clear
#45A531 · hsl(110, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Leaf Dusk Soft
#437439 · hsl(110, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Leaf Dusk Vivid
#2C9717 · hsl(110, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Clover Shadow Clear
#276E21 · hsl(115, 54%, 28%)

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
Aqua Veil Vivid
#F6FEFE
AA4.5:1
Aqua Veil Bright
#F6FEFE
AA4.5:1
Aqua Veil Pure
#F5FFFF
AA4.5:1
Saffron Veil Pure
#FFFCF5
AA4.5:1
Cyan Veil Vivid
#F6FEFD
AA4.5:1
Cyan Veil Bright
#F6FEFD

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#5F5853
Protanopia
#63644D
Tritanopia
#3E5F63
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