Surgical Green Color – #59a4c1: Codes and Complete Breakdown

In 1914, San Francisco surgeon Harry M. Sherman turned his operating room at St. Luke’s Hospital spinach green because white glare dulled his view of anatomy, as the CMAJ recounted in 2009. Surgical Green color (#59a4c1) is plainly a mid steel blue with blue at 193, so the green exists only in the name. It’s closer to ceil-blue scrubs than green ones.

Surgical Green Color Shades

Complementary colors

1. #59A4C1

2. #C17659

Triadic colors

1. #59A4C1

2. #C159A4

3. #A4C159

Tints or lighter colors

1. #7EB8CF

2. #A3CCDD

3. #C8E1EB

4. #EEF5F8

Darker colors

1. #3F8AA8

2. #316C83

3. #234D5E

4. #152F39

5. #071014

Analogous colors

1. #59C176

2. #59C1AA

3. #59A4C1

4. #5970C1

5. #7659C1

Monochromatic colors

1. #2882A5

2. #3A9FC7

3. #67B0CD

4. #91C2D6

5. #B8D6E1