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Moss Dusk Muted
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Moss Dusk Muted

Green · Hue 100
Hex
#516647
RGB
rgb(81, 102, 71)
HSL
hsl(100, 18%, 34%)
CMYK
cmyk(21%, 0%, 30%, 60%)
Metrics
S 18% · L 34%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
6.3:1AA
on black
3.3:1AA Large
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About this color

Moss Dusk Muted (#516647) belongs to the green family — hue 100°, 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-moss-dusk-muted: #516647;
  --colorarchive-moss-dusk-muted-hsl: hsl(100, 18%, 34%);
  --colorarchive-moss-dusk-muted-rgb: rgb(81, 102, 71);
}

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 #516647.

  • 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 #516647.

  • Greece (Aegean)Cypress Green
    #3E6B47 · Cupressus sempervirens
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →
  • France (Paris)Zinc Roof Grey
    #5E6566 · Oxidized zinc roof tiles, central Paris
    →

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 Velvet Muted
#657E58 · hsl(100, 18%, 42%)
Darker companion
Moss Shadow Muted
#43543B · hsl(100, 18%, 28%)
Complementary counterpoint
Mulberry Dusk Muted
#5C4766 · hsl(280, 18%, 34%)
Analogous lead
Emerald Dusk Muted
#476647 · hsl(120, 18%, 34%)
Analogous echo
Chartreuse Dusk Muted
#5F6647 · hsl(75, 18%, 34%)
Triadic +120°
Cobalt Dusk Muted
#475166 · hsl(220, 18%, 34%)
Triadic +240°
Garnet Dusk Muted
#664751 · hsl(340, 18%, 34%)
Split-comp +150°
Violet Dusk Muted
#4C4766 · hsl(250, 18%, 34%)
Split-comp +210°
Peony Dusk Muted
#664761 · hsl(310, 18%, 34%)
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Base: Moss Dusk Muted #516647
Lighter companion: Moss Velvet Muted #657E58
Darker companion: Moss Shadow Muted #43543B
Complementary counterpoint: Mulberry Dusk Muted #5C4766
Analogous lead: Emerald Dusk Muted #476647
Analogous echo: Chartreuse Dusk Muted #5F6647
Triadic +120°: Cobalt Dusk Muted #475166
Triadic +240°: Garnet Dusk Muted #664751
Split-comp +150°: Violet Dusk Muted #4C4766
Split-comp +210°: Peony Dusk Muted #664761

Compare

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

vsMoss Velvet MutedvsMoss Shadow MutedvsMulberry Dusk MutedvsEmerald Dusk MutedvsChartreuse Dusk MutedvsCobalt Dusk Muted

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Moss Dusk Faint
#545F4E · hsl(100, 10%, 34%)
Nearby match
Moss Dusk Dust
#4F6D40 · hsl(100, 26%, 34%)
Nearby match
Moss Shadow Muted
#43543B · hsl(100, 18%, 28%)
Nearby match
Moss Velvet Muted
#657E58 · hsl(100, 18%, 42%)
Nearby match
Moss Dusk Soft
#4D7439 · hsl(100, 34%, 34%)
Nearby match
Moss Shadow Faint
#454F40 · hsl(100, 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
Mulberry Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AA6:1
Mulberry Veil Muted
#FAF9FB
AA6:1
Mulberry Veil Dust
#FAF9FB
AA6:1
Mulberry Veil Soft
#FAF8FC
AA5.9:1
Mulberry Veil Clear
#FBF7FD
AA5.9:1
Mulberry Veil Vivid
#FBF6FE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#5A5852
Protanopia
#5B5B50
Tritanopia
#525657
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