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Leaf Ink Clear
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Leaf Ink Clear

Green · Hue 110
Hex
#173710
RGB
rgb(23, 55, 16)
HSL
hsl(110, 54%, 14%)
CMYK
cmyk(58%, 0%, 71%, 78%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 14%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
13.2:1AA
on black
1.6:1Fail
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About this color

Leaf Ink Clear (#173710) belongs to the green family — hue 110°, 54% saturation, 14% 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-ink-clear: #173710;
  --colorarchive-leaf-ink-clear-hsl: hsl(110, 54%, 14%);
  --colorarchive-leaf-ink-clear-rgb: rgb(23, 55, 16);
}

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 #173710.

  • Supabaseneutral
    Surface · #2A2A2A
    →
  • Meituan 美团neutral
    Slate Black · #222222
    →
  • Alipay 支付宝neutral
    Charcoal · #1F1F1F
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #173710.

  • Korea (Obangsaek)Obangsaek Black (흑 / heuk)
    #1F1F1F · North — water element, ink and lacquer
    →
  • England (London)Pub Tile Green
    #1F4D2E · Victorian pub interior dado tiling
    →
  • China (Traditional)Ink Wash Black (墨)
    #1C1C1C · Pine-soot ink stick (mò)
    →

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 Nocturne Clear
#214F17 · hsl(110, 54%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Magenta Ink Clear
#311037 · hsl(290, 54%, 14%)
Analogous lead
Mint Ink Clear
#103717 · hsl(130, 54%, 14%)
Analogous echo
Lime Ink Clear
#243710 · hsl(90, 54%, 14%)
Triadic +120°
Indigo Ink Clear
#101737 · hsl(230, 54%, 14%)
Triadic +240°
Merlot Ink Clear
#371017 · hsl(350, 54%, 14%)
Split-comp +150°
Orchid Ink Clear
#1D1037 · hsl(260, 54%, 14%)
Split-comp +210°
Rose Ink Clear
#37102A · hsl(320, 54%, 14%)
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Base: Leaf Ink Clear #173710
Lighter companion: Leaf Nocturne Clear #214F17
Complementary counterpoint: Magenta Ink Clear #311037
Analogous lead: Mint Ink Clear #103717
Analogous echo: Lime Ink Clear #243710
Triadic +120°: Indigo Ink Clear #101737
Triadic +240°: Merlot Ink Clear #371017
Split-comp +150°: Orchid Ink Clear #1D1037
Split-comp +210°: Rose Ink Clear #37102A

Compare

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

vsLeaf Nocturne ClearvsMagenta Ink ClearvsMint Ink ClearvsLime Ink ClearvsIndigo Ink ClearvsMerlot Ink Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Leaf Nocturne Clear
#214F17 · hsl(110, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Clover Ink Clear
#143710 · hsl(115, 54%, 14%)
Nearby match
Leaf Ink Soft
#1C3018 · hsl(110, 34%, 14%)
Nearby match
Leaf Ink Vivid
#123E09 · hsl(110, 74%, 14%)
Nearby match
Clover Nocturne Clear
#1C4F17 · hsl(115, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Leaf Shadow Clear
#2E6E21 · hsl(110, 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
AAA12.6:1
Magenta Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA12.6:1
Magenta Veil Muted
#FBF9FB
AAA12.6:1
Magenta Veil Dust
#FBF9FB
AAA12.5:1
Magenta Veil Soft
#FBF8FC
AAA12.5:1
Magenta Veil Clear
#FCF7FD
AAA12.4:1
Magenta Veil Vivid
#FCF6FE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#262421
Protanopia
#28281E
Tritanopia
#1A2628
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