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Mint Mist Muted
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Mint Mist Muted

Green · Hue 130
Metrics
S 18% · L 90%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.2:1Failon black17.1:1AA
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About this color

Mint Mist Muted (#E1EAE2) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 18% saturation, 90% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.

CSS
:root {
  --colorarchive-mint-mist-muted: #E1EAE2;
  --colorarchive-mint-mist-muted-hsl: hsl(130, 18%, 90%);
  --colorarchive-mint-mist-muted-rgb: rgb(225, 234, 226);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

Design Context

CalmingHealingOpen
Common in

Wellness · Meditation Apps · Healthcare

Pairs well with

Soft lavender for serenity, warm cream for organic warmth

Design tip

Perfect for health and wellness interfaces. Light greens reduce visual stress — use for backgrounds in reading-heavy layouts.

Cultural context ▶

Mint and sage greens symbolize healing, tranquility, and renewal. Common in spa and wellness branding.

Color Origins

Green family

The color of growth, currency, and long-running brands.

Heritage

Verdigris (copper acetate) gave medieval manuscripts many of their greens; it was unstable, eating through parchment over centuries. Terre verte (green earth) was used for under-painting flesh in the Italian tradition. Scheele's green (1775) and Paris green, arsenic compounds widely used in the 19th century, killed an unknown number of workers and Victorian children before viridian and phthalo greens replaced them. Modern green pigments are remarkably stable.

Across cultures

Green is closely associated with Islam — it appears on the flags of many Muslim-majority nations and on the Green Dome in Medina. In Ireland green is national identity, partly through the shamrock and partly through the political binary with orange. In Old Japanese a single word, ao, covered both blue and green; the 'go' traffic light is still officially ao, and since 1973 has been set to a bluish shade of green. Across many cultures green simultaneously means growth, fertility, envy, and the supernatural.

In the wild

Starbucks moved its logo from the original 1971 brown to green in 1987. John Deere's green and yellow has marked its machines for more than a century. U.S. banknotes have been printed in green since the 1860s; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing says no one can say for certain why green was first chosen, but it kept the color for the 1929 small-size notes because the pigment was plentiful, durable, and associated with the government's stable credit. WhatsApp, Spotify, and Heineken all anchor on green. Hospital scrubs were originally white and moved to green and teal; a common explanation is that green hides the green after-images surgeons see on white surfaces after staring at red tissue.

How it reads

Green sits near the peak of the eye's daylight sensitivity — the photopic luminosity curve peaks at 555nm. At low saturation it reads as natural, calm, premium (sage, olive). At high saturation it reads as urgent or playful. It carries one of the strongest semantic loads in product design: 'success', 'go', 'natural', 'safe'.

This particular tone

A pale, gentle tone — pastel territory, where the hue acts more like a tinted neutral than a stated color.

Lightness band: At this lightness the hue almost recedes into the surface around it — useful for backgrounds, hover states, and any surface where the color should suggest a mood without competing with content.

Saturation band: The low saturation pulls this color toward earthen, vintage, or editorial palettes. It reads as confident and grown-up rather than playful, and it tolerates being used in large blocks without becoming visually noisy.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #E1EAE2.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Light Gray · #E8E6DC
    →
  • Starbucksneutral
    Warm Neutral · #D4E9E2
    →
  • Aesopneutral
    Cream Paper · #EFE4D2
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #E1EAE2.

  • Turkey (Istanbul)Marble White
    #F0EBE0 · Marmara marble, used since Roman era
    →
  • IrelandAran Cream
    #F0E8D2 · Undyed Aran wool sweater tradition
    →
  • AustraliaBeach Cream
    #F2EFE1 · Western Australian quartz sand
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

Color History1970s Earth Tone Colors: Harvest Gold, Avocado Green & Burnt Orange PalettesUI DesignColor in Financial UI: Trust, Data Visualization, and the Red/Green ConventionColor SystemsChromatic Neutrals: Why Gray Is Never Actually Gray in Professional Design

Tonal strip

All lightness levels at this hue and saturation. Click any to navigate.

Palette moves

Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.

Lighter companion
Mint Whisper Muted
#EDF2EE · hsl(130, 18%, 94%)
Darker companion
Mint Pearl Muted
#CFDED1 · hsl(130, 18%, 84%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Mist Muted
#EAE1E9 · hsl(310, 18%, 90%)
Analogous lead
Jade Mist Muted
#E1EAE6 · hsl(150, 18%, 90%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Mist Muted
#E2EAE1 · hsl(110, 18%, 90%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Mist Muted
#E2E1EA · hsl(250, 18%, 90%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Mist Muted
#EAE2E1 · hsl(10, 18%, 90%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Mist Muted
#E7E1EA · hsl(280, 18%, 90%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Mist Muted
#EAE1E4 · hsl(340, 18%, 90%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Mist Muted #E1EAE2
Lighter companion: Mint Whisper Muted #EDF2EE
Darker companion: Mint Pearl Muted #CFDED1
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Mist Muted #EAE1E9
Analogous lead: Jade Mist Muted #E1EAE6
Analogous echo: Leaf Mist Muted #E2EAE1
Triadic +120°: Violet Mist Muted #E2E1EA
Triadic +240°: Ruby Mist Muted #EAE2E1
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Mist Muted #E7E1EA
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Mist Muted #EAE1E4

Compare

See how Mint Mist Muted compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Whisper MutedvsMint Pearl MutedvsPeony Mist MutedvsJade Mist MutedvsLeaf Mist MutedvsViolet Mist Muted

Nearest neighbors

The closest archive matches by hue, saturation, and lightness.

Search by hex
Nearby match
Mint Whisper Muted
#EDF2EE · hsl(130, 18%, 94%)
Nearby match
Mint Mist Faint
#E3E8E4 · hsl(130, 10%, 90%)
Nearby match
Mint Mist Dust
#DFECE1 · hsl(130, 26%, 90%)
Nearby match
Mint Pearl Muted
#CFDED1 · hsl(130, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Mint Veil Muted
#F9FBF9 · hsl(130, 18%, 98%)
Nearby match
Mint Whisper Faint
#EEF1EF · hsl(130, 10%, 94%)

Accessible pairings

Archive colors that meet WCAG contrast standards when paired with this color. Use as text-on-background or background-on-text.

Contrast checker
AAA7.9:1
Peony Shadow Faint
#4F404C
AAA8.1:1
Peony Shadow Muted
#543B50
AAA8.2:1
Peony Shadow Dust
#5A3554
AAA8.3:1
Peony Shadow Soft
#602F58
AAA8.3:1
Peony Shadow Clear
#6E2161
AAA7.9:1
Peony Shadow Vivid
#7C136B

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#E4E4E4
Protanopia
#E5E5E4
Tritanopia
#E1E6E6
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Mint Mist Faint#E3E8E4 · hsl(130, 10%, 90%)Mint Mist Muted#E1EAE2 · hsl(130, 18%, 90%)Mint Mist Dust#DFECE1 · hsl(130, 26%, 90%)Mint Mist Soft#DDEEE0 · hsl(130, 34%, 90%)Mint Mist Clear#D8F3DC · hsl(130, 54%, 90%)Mint Mist Vivid#D3F8D9 · hsl(130, 74%, 90%)Mint Mist Bright#D0FBD7 · hsl(130, 84%, 90%)Mint Mist Pure#CEFDD6 · hsl(130, 92%, 90%)
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