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Mint Silk Soft
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Mint Silk Soft

Green · Hue 130
Metrics
S 34% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white1.9:1Failon black11.1:1AA
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About this color

Mint Silk Soft (#92C99B) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 34% saturation, 68% 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-silk-soft: #92C99B;
  --colorarchive-mint-silk-soft-hsl: hsl(130, 34%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-mint-silk-soft-rgb: rgb(146, 201, 155);
}

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where many brand colors live.

Lightness band: At mid-lightness the hue carries its full character. This is the band where many identity colors live: bright enough to be distinctive at small sizes, deep enough to sit cleanly on a white canvas.

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 #92C99B.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Mid Gray · #B0AEA5
    →
  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #92C99B.

  • China (Traditional)Celadon (青瓷)
    #9CB48F · Song Dynasty Longquan kilns
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →

Color guides

Go deeper on using green and color in design.

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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 Bloom Soft
#ADD7B4 · hsl(130, 34%, 76%)
Darker companion
Mint Tone Soft
#76BC82 · hsl(130, 34%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Silk Soft
#C992C0 · hsl(310, 34%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Jade Silk Soft
#92C9AD · hsl(150, 34%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Silk Soft
#9BC992 · hsl(110, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Silk Soft
#9B92C9 · hsl(250, 34%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Silk Soft
#C99B92 · hsl(10, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Silk Soft
#B792C9 · hsl(280, 34%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Silk Soft
#C992A4 · hsl(340, 34%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Silk Soft #92C99B
Lighter companion: Mint Bloom Soft #ADD7B4
Darker companion: Mint Tone Soft #76BC82
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Silk Soft #C992C0
Analogous lead: Jade Silk Soft #92C9AD
Analogous echo: Leaf Silk Soft #9BC992
Triadic +120°: Violet Silk Soft #9B92C9
Triadic +240°: Ruby Silk Soft #C99B92
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Silk Soft #B792C9
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Silk Soft #C992A4

Compare

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

vsMint Bloom SoftvsMint Tone SoftvsPeony Silk SoftvsJade Silk SoftvsLeaf Silk SoftvsViolet Silk Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Silk Dust
#98C39F · hsl(130, 26%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Tone Soft
#76BC82 · hsl(130, 34%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Bloom Soft
#ADD7B4 · hsl(130, 34%, 76%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Muted
#9FBCA4 · hsl(130, 18%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Clear
#81D990 · hsl(130, 54%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Tone Dust
#7EB487 · hsl(130, 26%, 60%)

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
Peony Nocturne Muted
#3C2A39
AAA7.1:1
Peony Nocturne Dust
#40263C
AAA7.1:1
Peony Nocturne Soft
#44223F
AAA7.2:1
Peony Nocturne Clear
#4F1745
AAA7:1
Peony Nocturne Vivid
#590D4C
AAA8.4:1
Peony Ink Faint
#272026

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A9A5AB
Protanopia
#ADADA8
Tritanopia
#95B1B3
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Mint Silk Faint#A5B6A8 · hsl(130, 10%, 68%)Mint Silk Muted#9FBCA4 · hsl(130, 18%, 68%)Mint Silk Dust#98C39F · hsl(130, 26%, 68%)Mint Silk Soft#92C99B · hsl(130, 34%, 68%)Mint Silk Clear#81D990 · hsl(130, 54%, 68%)Mint Silk Vivid#71EA85 · hsl(130, 74%, 68%)Mint Silk Bright#69F280 · hsl(130, 84%, 68%)Mint Silk Pure#62F87B · hsl(130, 92%, 68%)
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