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Named color

Fern Frond

Fern Frond is an earth tone and jewel tone green color with HEX #657220. According to Colors Encyclopedia, it has RGB 101, 114, 32, HSL 70, 56%, 29%, cool temperature, and is useful for botanical palettes, natural product design, and seasonal editorial palettes.

#657220 green cool earth-tonejewel-tone
HEX #657220
RGB rgb(101, 114, 32)
HSL hsl(70 56% 29%)
CMYK cmyk(11, 0, 72, 55)
Luminance 0.1491
Contrast Black 3.98:1White 5.27:1

CSS Utilities

--color-fern-frond: #657220;
.bg-fern-frond { background-color: #657220; }
.text-fern-frond { color: #657220; }
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
Luminance0.1491
Black text3.98:1AA Fail
White text5.27:1AA 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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    56,
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  "contrast": {
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  }
}
WCAG
{
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    "#FFFFFF",
    "#F5F5F5"
  ],
  "AAA": []
}
Harmonies
{
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    "#3C7321"
  ],
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    "#732166"
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    "#2E2173",
    "#73213C"
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    "#582173"
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    "#657220",
    "#272C0C"
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}
Variants
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  "saturated": "#708410",
  "desaturated": "#5B6331",
  "pastel": "#AABA5A",
  "neon": "#9DBD00"
}
Pairings
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  ],
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    "#A5BB35",
    "#5B6331"
  ]
}
Knowledge graph
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    ]
  }
}
Full JSON dataset 
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  ],
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    ],
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      "packaging"
    ],
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  },
  "family": "green",
  "temperature": "cool",
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      "#A5BB35"
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Color meaning and use

About Fern Frond Color

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

Its common associations include life, seasonality, and organic texture, which makes it relevant for floral design and garden brands. In design work, Fern Frond is most useful for botanical palettes, natural product design, and seasonal editorial palettes, 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.Earth Tone colorsFind colors with earth tone visual character.Jewel Tone colorsFind colors with jewel tone visual character.Fern Frond accessibilityCheck contrast and WCAG text options for #657220.Fern Frond CSS utilitiesUse Fern Frond in CSS variables and utility classes.#657220 HEX atlasOpen the permanent HEX atlas record for conversions and variants.Fern Frond paletteOpen the generated palette based on Fern Frond.Fern Frond harmoniesExplore complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic harmonies.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Fern Frond against black and white text.

Black text3.98:1AA Fail
White text5.27:1AA Pass
AA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5
AAA text optionsNone in seed set
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Similar Colors

Dark Olive Green#556B2F
Olive Drab#6B8E23
Olive Leaf#6B8E23
Olive Green#708238
Moss Deep#4A5D23

Color Harmonies

#2E2173#2E2173
#735821#735821
#3C7321#3C7321
#216673#216673
#732166#732166
Open full Fern Frond harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#A5BB35#A5BB35
#272C0C#272C0C
#708410#708410
#5B6331#5B6331
#AABA5A#AABA5A
#9DBD00#9DBD00

Pairings

White#FFFFFF
#2E2173#2E2173
#735821#735821
#3C7321#3C7321
Matte Black#1A1A1A
White Smoke#F5F5F5