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Moss Core Soft
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Moss Core Soft

Green · Hue 100
Hex
#6DA451
RGB
rgb(109, 164, 81)
HSL
hsl(100, 34%, 48%)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 0%, 51%, 36%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
3:1Fail
on black
7.1:1AA
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About this color

Moss Core Soft (#6DA451) belongs to the green family — hue 100°, 34% saturation, 48% 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-moss-core-soft: #6DA451;
  --colorarchive-moss-core-soft-hsl: hsl(100, 34%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-moss-core-soft-rgb: rgb(109, 164, 81);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

BalancedTrustworthyGrowing
Common in

Finance · Insurance · Environmental

Pairs well with

White for clean professionalism, dark navy for authority, gold for premium

Design tip

The go-to for financial dashboards and environmental brands. Green conveys stability — use for success states and positive metrics.

Cultural context ▶

Green universally represents nature, growth, and money. In Islam, green is sacred. In Western finance, it signals profit.

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where most identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

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 #6DA451.

  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →
  • Microsoftprimary
    Xbox Green · #7FBA00
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #6DA451.

  • IrelandPasture Green
    #7C9A4C · Limestone-base pastureland, the West
    →
  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →
  • VietnamRice Paddy Green
    #5F8D4E · Mekong Delta
    →

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
Moss Radiant Soft
#7CB262 · hsl(100, 34%, 54%)
Darker companion
Moss Velvet Soft
#5F9047 · hsl(100, 34%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Mulberry Core Soft
#8851A4 · hsl(280, 34%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Emerald Core Soft
#51A451 · hsl(120, 34%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Chartreuse Core Soft
#8FA451 · hsl(75, 34%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Cobalt Core Soft
#516DA4 · hsl(220, 34%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Garnet Core Soft
#A4516D · hsl(340, 34%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Violet Core Soft
#5F51A4 · hsl(250, 34%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Peony Core Soft
#A45196 · hsl(310, 34%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Moss Core Soft #6DA451
Lighter companion: Moss Radiant Soft #7CB262
Darker companion: Moss Velvet Soft #5F9047
Complementary counterpoint: Mulberry Core Soft #8851A4
Analogous lead: Emerald Core Soft #51A451
Analogous echo: Chartreuse Core Soft #8FA451
Triadic +120°: Cobalt Core Soft #516DA4
Triadic +240°: Garnet Core Soft #A4516D
Split-comp +150°: Violet Core Soft #5F51A4
Split-comp +210°: Peony Core Soft #A45196

Compare

See how Moss Core Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsMoss Radiant SoftvsMoss Velvet SoftvsMulberry Core SoftvsEmerald Core SoftvsChartreuse Core SoftvsCobalt Core Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Moss Core Dust
#709A5B · hsl(100, 26%, 48%)
Nearby match
Moss Velvet Soft
#5F9047 · hsl(100, 34%, 42%)
Nearby match
Moss Radiant Soft
#7CB262 · hsl(100, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Moss Core Muted
#739064 · hsl(100, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Moss Velvet Dust
#62874F · hsl(100, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Moss Radiant Dust
#80A86B · hsl(100, 26%, 54%)

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
AA4.6:1
Mulberry Nocturne Muted
#362A3C
AA4.7:1
Mulberry Nocturne Dust
#372640
AA4.8:1
Mulberry Nocturne Soft
#392244
AA5:1
Mulberry Nocturne Clear
#3C174F
AA5:1
Mulberry Nocturne Vivid
#400D59
AA5:1
Mulberry Nocturne Bright
#41085E

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#858172
Protanopia
#88896D
Tritanopia
#717E81
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