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Moss Nocturne Clear
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Moss Nocturne Clear

Green · Hue 100
Hex
#2A4F17
RGB
rgb(42, 79, 23)
HSL
hsl(100, 54%, 20%)
CMYK
cmyk(47%, 0%, 71%, 69%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 20%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
9.4:1AA
on black
2.2:1Fail
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About this color

Moss Nocturne Clear (#2A4F17) belongs to the green family — hue 100°, 54% saturation, 20% 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-nocturne-clear: #2A4F17;
  --colorarchive-moss-nocturne-clear-hsl: hsl(100, 54%, 20%);
  --colorarchive-moss-nocturne-clear-rgb: rgb(42, 79, 23);
}

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 deep, weighted version of the hue — formal, considered, and pairs especially well with off-white and warm metallic accents.

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 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 #2A4F17.

  • Airbnbneutral
    Hof Gray · #484848
    →
  • Xiaohongshu 小红书neutral
    Slate Text · #333333
    →
  • JD.com 京东neutral
    Slate · #333333
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #2A4F17.

  • England (London)Pub Tile Green
    #1F4D2E · Victorian pub interior dado tiling
    →
  • ScandinaviaForest Green
    #3D5B49 · Spruce / fir forest in winter light
    →
  • Italy (Tuscany)Cypress Green
    #3F5E47 · Tuscan hilltop cypresses
    →

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 Shadow Clear
#3B6E21 · hsl(100, 54%, 28%)
Darker companion
Moss Ink Clear
#1D3710 · hsl(100, 54%, 14%)
Complementary counterpoint
Mulberry Nocturne Clear
#3C174F · hsl(280, 54%, 20%)
Analogous lead
Emerald Nocturne Clear
#174F17 · hsl(120, 54%, 20%)
Analogous echo
Chartreuse Nocturne Clear
#414F17 · hsl(75, 54%, 20%)
Triadic +120°
Cobalt Nocturne Clear
#172A4F · hsl(220, 54%, 20%)
Triadic +240°
Garnet Nocturne Clear
#4F172A · hsl(340, 54%, 20%)
Split-comp +150°
Violet Nocturne Clear
#21174F · hsl(250, 54%, 20%)
Split-comp +210°
Peony Nocturne Clear
#4F1745 · hsl(310, 54%, 20%)
Export preview
Base: Moss Nocturne Clear #2A4F17
Lighter companion: Moss Shadow Clear #3B6E21
Darker companion: Moss Ink Clear #1D3710
Complementary counterpoint: Mulberry Nocturne Clear #3C174F
Analogous lead: Emerald Nocturne Clear #174F17
Analogous echo: Chartreuse Nocturne Clear #414F17
Triadic +120°: Cobalt Nocturne Clear #172A4F
Triadic +240°: Garnet Nocturne Clear #4F172A
Split-comp +150°: Violet Nocturne Clear #21174F
Split-comp +210°: Peony Nocturne Clear #4F1745

Compare

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

vsMoss Shadow ClearvsMoss Ink ClearvsMulberry Nocturne ClearvsEmerald Nocturne ClearvsChartreuse Nocturne ClearvsCobalt Nocturne Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Moss Ink Clear
#1D3710 · hsl(100, 54%, 14%)
Nearby match
Moss Shadow Clear
#3B6E21 · hsl(100, 54%, 28%)
Nearby match
Moss Nocturne Soft
#2D4422 · hsl(100, 34%, 20%)
Nearby match
Moss Nocturne Vivid
#26590D · hsl(100, 74%, 20%)
Nearby match
Moss Dusk Clear
#478628 · hsl(100, 54%, 34%)
Nearby match
Lime Nocturne Clear
#334F17 · hsl(90, 54%, 20%)

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
AAA9:1
Mulberry Veil Faint
#FAF9FA
AAA9:1
Mulberry Veil Muted
#FAF9FB
AAA9:1
Mulberry Veil Dust
#FAF9FB
AAA8.9:1
Mulberry Veil Soft
#FAF8FC
AAA8.9:1
Mulberry Veil Clear
#FBF7FD
AAA8.8:1
Mulberry Veil Vivid
#FBF6FE

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#3B3830
Protanopia
#3D3E2C
Tritanopia
#2D373A
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