Pantone Green Colors
248 colors in the green family
Pantone Green spans the natural spectrum from bright lime like Pantone 375 C through forest tones like Pantone 349 C and deep evergreen shades like Pantone 3435 C. Our catalog includes 248 green-family colors, each with a unique code, HEX value, and CMYK print equivalent.
| Total colors | 248 |
|---|---|
| Hue range | 65° to 155° |
| Lightness range | 14% to 85% |
| Saturation range | 10% to 100% |
| Light / Medium / Dark | 56 / 110 / 82 |
Featured Pantone Green colors
Twelve well-known green codes with full values, shades, harmonies and contrast checks on each color page.
Pantone Green shades by lightness
Green-family colors break naturally into three lightness bands. Light greens - mint, pistachio, pale sage - sit above 65 percent lightness and read as fresh and calm. Medium greens - leaf, forest, and the recognizable "brand green" codes - sit between 35 and 65 percent lightness and carry the bulk of green's visual weight. Dark greens - evergreen, pine, and near-black forest tones - sit below 35 percent lightness and read as grounded, mature, and conservative.
How to match Pantone Green in design
Matching Pantone green in design starts with deciding hue bias, then choosing the right lightness band for the color's role. Warm greens (yellow-biased) feel energetic and youthful - good for consumer branding, food products, and health-and-wellness contexts. Cool greens (blue-biased) feel stable and traditional - good for finance, sustainability certifications, and premium packaging. For digital work, green is moderately stable across screens, but lime and chartreuse hues shift noticeably between mobile and desktop displays, so verify on multiple devices. For print, spot inks preserve green's hue better than CMYK builds - process greens often shift toward teal or olive - and green is more paper-sensitive than most other families, so always proof on the final stock.
Common mistakes with Pantone Green
Using pure green for status messaging without icons - green means "success" in most UIs but "go" in traffic contexts and "agriculture" in food contexts; the ambiguous range confuses users without supporting context
Assuming a bright lime green translates to print without proofing - bright lime shifts toward olive on most presses and uncoated stock makes it worse
Mixing warm and cool greens in one palette - a lime next to a forest green almost always reads as accidental
Using green for financial branding without considering cultural meaning - in some East Asian contexts green can connote loss rather than growth, so verify the specific audience
Ignoring the neon-green family entirely - Pantone 802 C and its peers are genuinely fluorescent and behave very differently under UV than other greens
All 248 Pantone Green colors
Every color in this family, from pale tints to deep shades. Open any color for HEX, RGB, CMYK, shades, harmonies and contrast checks.
Questions about Pantone Green
What is the most popular Pantone green?
Pantone 355 C is the most widely specified Pantone green for sustainability and eco-branding. Pantone 349 C is the most specified "classic forest green" for finance, academia, and traditional brand systems. Pantone 375 C is a common bright lime for wellness and health contexts. Pantone 348 C is a widely used general-purpose mid-green for consumer products.
What is the Pantone code for Starbucks green?
Starbucks brand green is proprietary, but Pantone 3425 C is the most commonly cited approximation to the classic Starbucks deep green. Recent brand refreshes have shifted toward a slightly brighter green closer to Pantone 348 C. Neither is official - Starbucks specifies its brand color in its own design system, not in Pantone - but 3425 C and 348 C are the closest published references.
What is the Pantone code for forest green?
Pantone 349 C (coated) or 350 C is the closest match to classic forest green, a deep saturated green used in traditional brand systems, academia, and the Boy Scouts. Pantone 3435 C is a darker, near-black forest green used for premium packaging and mature brand systems. Pantone 5535 C is a cooler forest green that appears in some British racing contexts.
How many Pantone greens are there?
The Pantone Matching System includes more than 350 green-family colors across its Solid Coated and Solid Uncoated libraries. Our catalog shows 248 of them, filterable by lightness band. The exact count depends on where you draw the boundary with teal, yellow, and beige tones.
Why does green look different in print?
Green is unusually sensitive to ink and paper behavior. CMYK process greens often shift toward teal or olive because the process yellow and process cyan inks interact in ways that do not match the perceptual green the designer intended. Uncoated stock makes the shift worse by absorbing ink unevenly. For color-critical green - brand identity, certification marks, packaging - always specify a Pantone spot ink and verify with a printed proof on the exact paper stock.