Colors Encyclopedia

Named color

Pine Needle

Pine Needle is a muted and earth tone green color with HEX #334D41. According to Colors Encyclopedia, it has RGB 51, 77, 65, HSL 152, 20%, 25%, cool temperature, and is useful for botanical palettes, natural product design, and seasonal editorial palettes.

#334D41 green cool mutedearth-tone
HEX #334D41
RGB rgb(51, 77, 65)
HSL hsl(152 20% 25%)
CMYK cmyk(34, 0, 16, 70)
Luminance 0.0639
Contrast Black 2.28:1White 9.22:1

CSS Utilities

--color-pine-needle: #334D41;
.bg-pine-needle { background-color: #334D41; }
.text-pine-needle { color: #334D41; }
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
Luminance0.0639
Black text2.28:1AA Fail
White text9.22:1AA 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",
    "#F5F5F5"
  ],
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    "#F5F5F5"
  ]
}
Harmonies
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    "#334D41",
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}
Variants
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  "pastel": "#798680",
  "neon": "#00A85A"
}
Pairings
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}
Knowledge graph
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}
Full JSON dataset 
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  ],
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      "packaging"
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Color meaning and use

About Pine Needle Color

Pine Needle sits in the green family with cool temperature and muted and earth tone visual character. Pine Needle 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, Pine Needle 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.Muted colorsFind colors with muted visual character.Earth Tone colorsFind colors with earth tone visual character.Pine Needle accessibilityCheck contrast and WCAG text options for #334D41.Pine Needle CSS utilitiesUse Pine Needle in CSS variables and utility classes.#334D41 HEX atlasOpen the permanent HEX atlas record for conversions and variants.Pine Needle paletteOpen the generated palette based on Pine Needle.Pine Needle harmoniesExplore complementary, analogous, triadic, and tetradic harmonies.

WCAG Accessibility

Contrast checks for Pine Needle against black and white text.

Black text2.28:1AA Fail
White text9.22:1AA Pass
AA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5
AAA text options#FFFFFF, #F5F5F5
Open WCAG pageDetailed contrast notes, warnings, alternatives, and UI examples

Similar Colors

Dark Slate Gray#2F4F4F
Dark Slate Grey#2F4F4F
Spruce#2E4F4F
Charcoal#36454F
Hunter Green#355E3B

Color Harmonies

#4D333F#4D333F
#334D34#334D34
#334C4D#334C4D
#41334D#41334D
#4D4133#4D4133
Open full Pine Needle harmony pageComplementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic, split, and monochromatic sets

Variants

#58846F#58846F
#0E1512#0E1512
#255B42#255B42
#404040#404040
#798680#798680
#00A85A#00A85A

Pairings

White#FFFFFF
#4D333F#4D333F
#334D34#334D34
#334C4D#334C4D
Matte Black#1A1A1A
White Smoke#F5F5F5