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Moss Mist Clear
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Moss Mist Clear

Green · Hue 100
Hex
#E1F3D8
RGB
rgb(225, 243, 216)
HSL
hsl(100, 54%, 90%)
CMYK
cmyk(7%, 0%, 11%, 5%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 90%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.2:1Fail
on black
18:1AA
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About this color

Moss Mist Clear (#E1F3D8) belongs to the green family — hue 100°, 54% saturation, 90% 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-mist-clear: #E1F3D8;
  --colorarchive-moss-mist-clear-hsl: hsl(100, 54%, 90%);
  --colorarchive-moss-mist-clear-rgb: rgb(225, 243, 216);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

CalmingHealingOpen
Common in

Wellness · Meditation Apps · Healthcare

Pairs well with

Soft lavender for serenity, warm cream for organic warmth

Design tip

Perfect for health and wellness interfaces. Light greens reduce visual stress — use for backgrounds in reading-heavy layouts.

Cultural context ▶

Mint and sage greens symbolize healing, tranquility, and renewal. Common in spa and wellness 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 bright, airy reading of the hue — clean and approachable, the kind of color that holds up well in product photography and on light backgrounds.

Lightness band: At this lightness the hue almost recedes into the surface around it — useful for backgrounds, hover states, and any surface where the color should suggest a mood without competing with content.

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 #E1F3D8.

  • Anthropicprimary
    Cream Canvas · #F0EEE6
    →
  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #E1F3D8.

  • AustraliaBeach Cream
    #F2EFE1 · Western Australian quartz sand
    →
  • Turkey (Istanbul)Marble White
    #F0EBE0 · Marmara marble, used since Roman era
    →
  • JapanWashi Cream (和紙)
    #F4ECD8 · Unbleached mulberry-fiber paper
    →

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 Whisper Clear
#EDF8E7 · hsl(100, 54%, 94%)
Darker companion
Moss Pearl Clear
#CFECC0 · hsl(100, 54%, 84%)
Complementary counterpoint
Mulberry Mist Clear
#EAD8F3 · hsl(280, 54%, 90%)
Analogous lead
Emerald Mist Clear
#D8F3D8 · hsl(120, 54%, 90%)
Analogous echo
Chartreuse Mist Clear
#ECF3D8 · hsl(75, 54%, 90%)
Triadic +120°
Cobalt Mist Clear
#D8E1F3 · hsl(220, 54%, 90%)
Triadic +240°
Garnet Mist Clear
#F3D8E1 · hsl(340, 54%, 90%)
Split-comp +150°
Violet Mist Clear
#DCD8F3 · hsl(250, 54%, 90%)
Split-comp +210°
Peony Mist Clear
#F3D8EF · hsl(310, 54%, 90%)
Export preview
Base: Moss Mist Clear #E1F3D8
Lighter companion: Moss Whisper Clear #EDF8E7
Darker companion: Moss Pearl Clear #CFECC0
Complementary counterpoint: Mulberry Mist Clear #EAD8F3
Analogous lead: Emerald Mist Clear #D8F3D8
Analogous echo: Chartreuse Mist Clear #ECF3D8
Triadic +120°: Cobalt Mist Clear #D8E1F3
Triadic +240°: Garnet Mist Clear #F3D8E1
Split-comp +150°: Violet Mist Clear #DCD8F3
Split-comp +210°: Peony Mist Clear #F3D8EF

Compare

See how Moss Mist Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsMoss Whisper ClearvsMoss Pearl ClearvsMulberry Mist ClearvsEmerald Mist ClearvsChartreuse Mist ClearvsCobalt Mist Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Moss Whisper Clear
#EDF8E7 · hsl(100, 54%, 94%)
Nearby match
Moss Pearl Clear
#CFECC0 · hsl(100, 54%, 84%)
Nearby match
Moss Veil Clear
#F9FDF7 · hsl(100, 54%, 98%)
Nearby match
Moss Mist Soft
#E3EEDD · hsl(100, 34%, 90%)
Nearby match
Moss Mist Vivid
#DFF8D3 · hsl(100, 74%, 90%)
Nearby match
Moss Bloom Clear
#B7E3A1 · hsl(100, 54%, 76%)

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
AAA7.1:1
Mulberry Dusk Muted
#5C4766
AAA7.4:1
Mulberry Dusk Dust
#5E406D
AAA7.7:1
Mulberry Dusk Soft
#613974
AAA8.1:1
Mulberry Dusk Clear
#662886
AAA8.2:1
Mulberry Dusk Vivid
#6C1797
AAA8:1
Mulberry Dusk Bright
#6F0EA0

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#E8E7E1
Protanopia
#E9E9DF
Tritanopia
#E2E4E5
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