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Mint Dusk Muted
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Mint Dusk Muted

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#47664C
RGB
rgb(71, 102, 76)
HSL
hsl(130, 18%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(30%, 0%, 25%, 60%)
Metrics
S 18% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
6.4:1AA
on black
3.3:1AA Large
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About this color

Mint Dusk Muted (#47664C) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 18% 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-muted: #47664C;
  --colorarchive-mint-dusk-muted-hsl: hsl(130, 18%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-mint-dusk-muted-rgb: rgb(71, 102, 76);
}

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 dim, atmospheric reading — closer to a colored shadow than a stated hue. Excellent as a near-black on dark UI or as a moody background.

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 low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #47664C.

  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #47664C.

  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →
  • ScandinaviaForest Green
    #3D5B49 · Spruce / fir forest in winter light
    →

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 Muted
#587E5E · hsl(130, 18%, 42%)
Darker companion
Mint Shadow Muted
#3B543F · hsl(130, 18%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Dusk Muted
#664761 · hsl(310, 18%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Jade Dusk Muted
#476657 · hsl(150, 18%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Dusk Muted
#4C6647 · hsl(110, 18%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Dusk Muted
#4C4766 · hsl(250, 18%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Dusk Muted
#664C47 · hsl(10, 18%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Dusk Muted
#5C4766 · hsl(280, 18%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Dusk Muted
#664751 · hsl(340, 18%, 34%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Dusk Muted #47664C
Lighter companion: Mint Velvet Muted #587E5E
Darker companion: Mint Shadow Muted #3B543F
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Dusk Muted #664761
Analogous lead: Jade Dusk Muted #476657
Analogous echo: Leaf Dusk Muted #4C6647
Triadic +120°: Violet Dusk Muted #4C4766
Triadic +240°: Ruby Dusk Muted #664C47
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Dusk Muted #5C4766
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Dusk Muted #664751

Compare

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

vsMint Velvet MutedvsMint Shadow MutedvsPeony Dusk MutedvsJade Dusk MutedvsLeaf Dusk MutedvsViolet Dusk Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Dusk Faint
#4E5F51 · hsl(130, 10%, 34%)
Nearby match
Mint Dusk Dust
#406D48 · hsl(130, 26%, 34%)
Nearby match
Mint Shadow Muted
#3B543F · hsl(130, 18%, 28%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Muted
#587E5E · hsl(130, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Mint Dusk Soft
#397443 · hsl(130, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Mint Shadow Faint
#404F43 · hsl(130, 10%, 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
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Muted
#FBF9FB
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Dust
#FBF9FB
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Soft
#FCF8FB
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Clear
#FDF7FC
AA6.1:1
Peony Veil Vivid
#FEF6FC

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#545255
Protanopia
#565653
Tritanopia
#495859
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