Colors Encyclopedia

Named color

Emerald Dark

Emerald Dark is a dark and jewel tone green color with HEX #046307. According to Colors Encyclopedia, it has RGB 4, 99, 7, HSL 122, 92%, 20%, cool temperature, and is useful for jewel tone palettes, luxury branding, and premium interface accents.

#046307 green cool darkjewel-tone
HEX #046307
RGB rgb(4, 99, 7)
HSL hsl(122 92% 20%)
CMYK cmyk(96, 0, 93, 61)
Luminance 0.0896
Contrast Black 2.79:1White 7.52:1

CSS Utilities

--color-emerald-dark: #046307;
.bg-emerald-dark { background-color: #046307; }
.text-emerald-dark { color: #046307; }
Open CSS utility pageReusable variables, classes, examples, and implementation notes

Machine-readable data

Machine-Readable Color Data (JSON)

Perfect for CSS, design systems, automation, and AI ingestion.

AI-Ready Dataset v1.0.0
Luminance0.0896
Black text2.79:1AA Fail
White text7.52:1AA Pass
hexCanonical HEX value
rgbRed, green, blue channels
hslHue, saturation, lightness
cmykApproximate print conversion
wcagAA and AAA contrast options
harmoniesMathematical harmony sets
variantsGenerated tone variants
nearestColorsKnowledge graph neighbors
Download JSON Open API
Structured sections
Color systems
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}
WCAG
{
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    "#FFFFFF",
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  ],
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  ]
}
Harmonies
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Variants
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  "pastel": "#1ACB20",
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}
Pairings
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}
Knowledge graph
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}
Full JSON dataset 
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  ],
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Color meaning and use

About Emerald Dark Color

Emerald Dark sits in the green family with cool temperature and dark and jewel tone visual character. Emerald Dark is a commonly used color name in design references, palettes, and editorial color systems.

Its common associations include depth, richness, and prestige, which makes it relevant for luxury and fashion. In design work, Emerald Dark is most useful for jewel-tone palettes, luxury branding, and premium interface accents, especially when paired with white text for stronger contrast.

Related Color Guides

Green color familyBrowse named green colors and compare nearby swatches.Cool colorsExplore colors with cool temperature behavior.Dark colorsFind colors with dark visual character.Jewel Tone colorsFind colors with jewel tone visual character.Emerald Dark accessibilityCheck contrast and WCAG text options for #046307.Emerald Dark CSS utilitiesUse Emerald Dark in CSS variables and utility classes.#046307 HEX atlasOpen the permanent HEX atlas record for conversions and variants.Emerald Dark paletteOpen the generated palette based on Emerald Dark.Emerald Dark harmoniesExplore complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic harmonies.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Emerald Dark against black and white text.

Black text2.79:1AA Fail
White text7.52:1AA Pass
AA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5
AAA text options#FFFFFF
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Similar Colors

Dark Green#006400
Green#008000
British Racing Green#004225
Terre Verte#385E0F
Forest Green#228B22

Color Harmonies

#62045F#62045F
#306204#306204
#046236#046236
#070462#070462
#620704#620704
Open full Emerald Dark harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#08BA0E#08BA0E
#000A01#000A01
#006603#006603
#0F5712#0F5712
#1ACB20#1ACB20
#008F05#008F05

Pairings

White#FFFFFF
#62045F#62045F
#306204#306204
#046236#046236
Matte Black#1A1A1A
White Smoke#F5F5F5