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Nearest named color: Celadon

Muted, balanced celadon green for soft backgrounds

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About Celadon

Celadon is the green that actually sits in the middle without feeling like compromise. It's lighter and less saturated than , so it doesn't demand the room that one does. But it's got enough presence to read as intentional, it won't disappear against white the way will, and it doesn't carry 's warmth or A State of 's cool edge. It's just... green. Balanced.

Reach for it on wellness apps, medical interfaces, and corporate dashboards where you need color that feels calm without being timid. It works as a secondary background, a button state, or a body text backdrop when you want something softer than primary action colors but more confident than pale neutrals. In product design, it's the one that plays well with others, sits next to grays, creams, and darker accents without forcing contrast decisions.

The thing: it's temperate enough that it won't shift your perception of surrounding colors the way will. That restraint is exactly why it scales across layouts. Test it against your actual background first though, on cream it'll read slightly cooler, on pure white it settles into its truest self.

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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.

On White #ffffff

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1.51:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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1.39:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

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11.72:1AAA

On Black #000000

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13.89:1AAA

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