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Mint Dusk Clear
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Mint Dusk Clear

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#288637
RGB
rgb(40, 134, 55)
HSL
hsl(130, 54%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(70%, 0%, 59%, 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

Mint Dusk Clear (#288637) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 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-mint-dusk-clear: #288637;
  --colorarchive-mint-dusk-clear-hsl: hsl(130, 54%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-mint-dusk-clear-rgb: rgb(40, 134, 55);
}

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 #288637.

  • 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 #288637.

  • IndiaIndia Green
    #138808 · Indian flag — Ashoka green
    →
  • BrazilAmazon Green
    #1B6D3F · Tropical rainforest canopy
    →
  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →

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
Mint Velvet Clear
#31A545 · hsl(130, 54%, 42%)
Darker companion
Mint Shadow Clear
#216E2E · hsl(130, 54%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Dusk Clear
#862876 · hsl(310, 54%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Jade Dusk Clear
#288657 · hsl(150, 54%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Dusk Clear
#378628 · hsl(110, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Dusk Clear
#372886 · hsl(250, 54%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Dusk Clear
#863728 · hsl(10, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Dusk Clear
#662886 · hsl(280, 54%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Dusk Clear
#862847 · hsl(340, 54%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Dusk Clear #288637
Lighter companion: Mint Velvet Clear #31A545
Darker companion: Mint Shadow Clear #216E2E
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Dusk Clear #862876
Analogous lead: Jade Dusk Clear #288657
Analogous echo: Leaf Dusk Clear #378628
Triadic +120°: Violet Dusk Clear #372886
Triadic +240°: Ruby Dusk Clear #863728
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Dusk Clear #662886
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Dusk Clear #862847

Compare

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

vsMint Velvet ClearvsMint Shadow ClearvsPeony Dusk ClearvsJade Dusk ClearvsLeaf Dusk ClearvsViolet Dusk Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Shadow Clear
#216E2E · hsl(130, 54%, 28%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Clear
#31A545 · hsl(130, 54%, 42%)
Nearby match
Mint Dusk Soft
#397443 · hsl(130, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Mint Dusk Vivid
#17972C · hsl(130, 74%, 34%)
Nearby match
Mint Nocturne Clear
#174F21 · hsl(130, 54%, 20%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Clear
#38BC4E · hsl(130, 54%, 48%)

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
Apricot Veil Clear
#FDFBF7
AA4.5:1
Apricot Veil Vivid
#FEFBF6
AA4.5:1
Apricot Veil Bright
#FEFBF6
AA4.5:1
Apricot Veil Pure
#FFFBF5
AA4.5:1
Saffron Veil Soft
#FCFBF8
AA4.5:1
Saffron Veil Clear
#FDFBF7

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#5A5358
Protanopia
#5F6053
Tritanopia
#326366
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