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Mint Pearl Soft
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Mint Pearl Soft

Green · Hue 130
Metrics
S 34% · L 84%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.4:1Failon black15.4:1AA
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About this color

Mint Pearl Soft (#C8E4CD) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 34% saturation, 84% 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-pearl-soft: #C8E4CD;
  --colorarchive-mint-pearl-soft-hsl: hsl(130, 34%, 84%);
  --colorarchive-mint-pearl-soft-rgb: rgb(200, 228, 205);
}

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 bright, airy reading of the hue — clean and approachable, the kind of color that holds up well in product photography and on light backgrounds.

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 clear, mid-saturation register is a common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #C8E4CD.

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

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #C8E4CD.

  • France (Paris)Lutetian Limestone
    #E5DDC8 · Paris facade stone (Haussmannian-era buildings)
    →
  • IcelandLopapeysa Cream
    #E8DFCC · Undyed Icelandic sheep wool
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Hanji Cream
    #EAE0CB · Mulberry-fiber Korean paper
    →

Color guides

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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 Mist Soft
#DDEEE0 · hsl(130, 34%, 90%)
Darker companion
Mint Bloom Soft
#ADD7B4 · hsl(130, 34%, 76%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Pearl Soft
#E4C8DF · hsl(310, 34%, 84%)
Analogous lead
Jade Pearl Soft
#C8E4D6 · hsl(150, 34%, 84%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Pearl Soft
#CDE4C8 · hsl(110, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Pearl Soft
#CDC8E4 · hsl(250, 34%, 84%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Pearl Soft
#E4CDC8 · hsl(10, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Pearl Soft
#DBC8E4 · hsl(280, 34%, 84%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Pearl Soft
#E4C8D2 · hsl(340, 34%, 84%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Pearl Soft #C8E4CD
Lighter companion: Mint Mist Soft #DDEEE0
Darker companion: Mint Bloom Soft #ADD7B4
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Pearl Soft #E4C8DF
Analogous lead: Jade Pearl Soft #C8E4D6
Analogous echo: Leaf Pearl Soft #CDE4C8
Triadic +120°: Violet Pearl Soft #CDC8E4
Triadic +240°: Ruby Pearl Soft #E4CDC8
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Pearl Soft #DBC8E4
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Pearl Soft #E4C8D2

Compare

See how Mint Pearl Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Mist SoftvsMint Bloom SoftvsPeony Pearl SoftvsJade Pearl SoftvsLeaf Pearl SoftvsViolet Pearl Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Pearl Dust
#CCE1CF · hsl(130, 26%, 84%)
Nearby match
Mint Mist Soft
#DDEEE0 · hsl(130, 34%, 90%)
Nearby match
Mint Bloom Soft
#ADD7B4 · hsl(130, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Mint Pearl Muted
#CFDED1 · hsl(130, 18%, 84%)
Nearby match
Mint Whisper Soft
#EAF5EC · hsl(130, 34%, 94%)
Nearby match
Mint Mist Dust
#DFECE1 · hsl(130, 26%, 90%)

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

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#D3D1D4
Protanopia
#D5D5D3
Tritanopia
#CAD7D8
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Mint Pearl Faint#D2DAD3 · hsl(130, 10%, 84%)Mint Pearl Muted#CFDED1 · hsl(130, 18%, 84%)Mint Pearl Dust#CCE1CF · hsl(130, 26%, 84%)Mint Pearl Soft#C8E4CD · hsl(130, 34%, 84%)Mint Pearl Clear#C0ECC8 · hsl(130, 54%, 84%)Mint Pearl Vivid#B8F4C2 · hsl(130, 74%, 84%)Mint Pearl Bright#B4F8BF · hsl(130, 84%, 84%)Mint Pearl Pure#B1FCBD · hsl(130, 92%, 84%)
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