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Moss Ink Faint
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Moss Ink Faint

Green · Hue 100
Hex
#232720
RGB
rgb(35, 39, 32)
HSL
hsl(100, 10%, 14%)
CMYK
cmyk(10%, 0%, 18%, 85%)
Metrics
S 10% · L 14%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
15.2:1AA
on black
1.4:1Fail
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About this color

Moss Ink Faint (#232720) belongs to the green family — hue 100°, 10% 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-moss-ink-faint: #232720;
  --colorarchive-moss-ink-faint-hsl: hsl(100, 10%, 14%);
  --colorarchive-moss-ink-faint-rgb: rgb(35, 39, 32);
}

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 #232720.

  • Meituan 美团neutral
    Slate Black · #222222
    →
  • Supabaseneutral
    Surface · #2A2A2A
    →
  • Netflixneutral
    Netflix Black · #221F1F
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #232720.

  • Korea (Obangsaek)Obangsaek Black (흑 / heuk)
    #1F1F1F · North — water element, ink and lacquer
    →
  • China (Traditional)Ink Wash Black (墨)
    #1C1C1C · Pine-soot ink stick (mò)
    →
  • IcelandBasalt Black
    #1A1B1F · Reynisfjara basalt columns
    →

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 Nocturne Faint
#31382E · hsl(100, 10%, 20%)
Complementary counterpoint
Mulberry Ink Faint
#252027 · hsl(280, 10%, 14%)
Analogous lead
Emerald Ink Faint
#202720 · hsl(120, 10%, 14%)
Analogous echo
Chartreuse Ink Faint
#252720 · hsl(75, 10%, 14%)
Triadic +120°
Cobalt Ink Faint
#202327 · hsl(220, 10%, 14%)
Triadic +240°
Garnet Ink Faint
#272023 · hsl(340, 10%, 14%)
Split-comp +150°
Violet Ink Faint
#212027 · hsl(250, 10%, 14%)
Split-comp +210°
Peony Ink Faint
#272026 · hsl(310, 10%, 14%)
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Base: Moss Ink Faint #232720
Lighter companion: Moss Nocturne Faint #31382E
Complementary counterpoint: Mulberry Ink Faint #252027
Analogous lead: Emerald Ink Faint #202720
Analogous echo: Chartreuse Ink Faint #252720
Triadic +120°: Cobalt Ink Faint #202327
Triadic +240°: Garnet Ink Faint #272023
Split-comp +150°: Violet Ink Faint #212027
Split-comp +210°: Peony Ink Faint #272026

Compare

See how Moss Ink Faint compares side by side with related colors.

vsMoss Nocturne FaintvsMulberry Ink FaintvsEmerald Ink FaintvsChartreuse Ink FaintvsCobalt Ink FaintvsGarnet Ink Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Moss Ink Muted
#222A1D · hsl(100, 18%, 14%)
Nearby match
Moss Nocturne Faint
#31382E · hsl(100, 10%, 20%)
Nearby match
Moss Ink Dust
#212D1A · hsl(100, 26%, 14%)
Nearby match
Moss Nocturne Muted
#303C2A · hsl(100, 18%, 20%)
Nearby match
Moss Shadow Faint
#454F40 · hsl(100, 10%, 28%)
Nearby match
Moss Ink Soft
#203018 · hsl(100, 34%, 14%)

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
AAA14.5:1
Mulberry Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA14.5:1
Mulberry Veil Muted
#FAF9FB
AAA14.5:1
Mulberry Veil Dust
#FAF9FB
AAA14.4:1
Mulberry Veil Soft
#FAF8FC
AAA14.3:1
Mulberry Veil Clear
#FBF7FD
AAA14.3:1
Mulberry Veil Vivid
#FBF6FE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#252422
Protanopia
#252522
Tritanopia
#232323
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