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Seafoam Core Pure
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Seafoam Core Pure

Green · Hue 140
Hex
#0AEB55
RGB
rgb(10, 235, 85)
HSL
hsl(140, 92%, 48%)
CMYK
cmyk(96%, 0%, 64%, 8%)
Metrics
S 92% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.6:1Fail
on black
13:1AA
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About this color

Seafoam Core Pure (#0AEB55) belongs to the green family — hue 140°, 92% 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-seafoam-core-pure: #0AEB55;
  --colorarchive-seafoam-core-pure-hsl: hsl(140, 92%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-seafoam-core-pure-rgb: rgb(10, 235, 85);
}

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 vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #0AEB55.

  • Stripeaccent
    Success Green · #00D924
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →
  • WeChat 微信primary
    WeChat Green · #07C160
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #0AEB55.

  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →

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
Seafoam Radiant Pure
#1EF666 · hsl(140, 92%, 54%)
Darker companion
Seafoam Velvet Pure
#09CE4A · hsl(140, 92%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Rose Core Pure
#EB0AA0 · hsl(320, 92%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Teal Core Pure
#0AEBA0 · hsl(160, 92%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Clover Core Pure
#1DEB0A · hsl(115, 92%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Orchid Core Pure
#550AEB · hsl(260, 92%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Ember Core Pure
#EB550A · hsl(20, 92%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Magenta Core Pure
#C50AEB · hsl(290, 92%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Merlot Core Pure
#EB0A2F · hsl(350, 92%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Seafoam Core Pure #0AEB55
Lighter companion: Seafoam Radiant Pure #1EF666
Darker companion: Seafoam Velvet Pure #09CE4A
Complementary counterpoint: Rose Core Pure #EB0AA0
Analogous lead: Teal Core Pure #0AEBA0
Analogous echo: Clover Core Pure #1DEB0A
Triadic +120°: Orchid Core Pure #550AEB
Triadic +240°: Ember Core Pure #EB550A
Split-comp +150°: Magenta Core Pure #C50AEB
Split-comp +210°: Merlot Core Pure #EB0A2F

Compare

See how Seafoam Core Pure compares side by side with related colors.

vsSeafoam Radiant PurevsSeafoam Velvet PurevsRose Core PurevsTeal Core PurevsClover Core PurevsOrchid Core Pure

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Seafoam Core Bright
#14E158 · hsl(140, 84%, 48%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Velvet Pure
#09CE4A · hsl(140, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Pure
#1EF666 · hsl(140, 92%, 54%)
Nearby match
Celadon Core Pure
#0AEB68 · hsl(145, 92%, 48%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Velvet Bright
#11C54D · hsl(140, 84%, 42%)
Nearby match
Seafoam Radiant Bright
#27EC69 · hsl(140, 84%, 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
AAA8.1:1
Rose Nocturne Faint
#382E35
AAA8.3:1
Rose Nocturne Muted
#3C2A36
AAA8.4:1
Rose Nocturne Dust
#402637
AAA8.5:1
Rose Nocturne Soft
#442239
AAA8.6:1
Rose Nocturne Clear
#4F173C
AAA8.4:1
Rose Nocturne Vivid
#590D40

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#988998
Protanopia
#A2A38E
Tritanopia
#3BACB1
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