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Mint Tone Faint
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Mint Tone Faint

Green · Hue 130
Metrics
S 10% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white2.7:1Failon black7.8:1AA
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About this color

Mint Tone Faint (#8FA392) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 10% saturation, 60% 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-tone-faint: #8FA392;
  --colorarchive-mint-tone-faint-hsl: hsl(130, 10%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-mint-tone-faint-rgb: rgb(143, 163, 146);
}

AI Color Names

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Design Context

BalancedTrustworthyGrowing
Common in

Finance · Insurance · Environmental

Pairs well with

White for clean professionalism, dark navy for authority, gold for premium

Design tip

The go-to for financial dashboards and environmental brands. Green conveys stability — use for success states and positive metrics.

Cultural context ▶

Green universally represents nature, growth, and money. In Islam, green is sacred. In Western finance, it signals profit.

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 grounded mid-tone — sober, considered, well-suited to body text accents, editorial layouts, or any context where restraint reads as quality.

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 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 #8FA392.

  • Anthropicneutral
    Mid Gray · #B0AEA5
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →
  • Microsoftneutral
    Slate Gray · #737373
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #8FA392.

  • IrelandConnemara Marble
    #8DA48A · Mottled green-grey native marble
    →
  • Greece (Aegean)Olive Silver
    #9CA38F · Olea europaea leaf undersides
    →
  • AustraliaEucalyptus Blue-Green
    #7EA08C · Eucalyptus regnans / globulus foliage
    →

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 TheoryColor Temperature in Design: Warm vs. Cool and How to Use the Difference

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 Silk Faint
#A5B6A8 · hsl(130, 10%, 68%)
Darker companion
Mint Radiant Faint
#7E9582 · hsl(130, 10%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Tone Faint
#A38FA0 · hsl(310, 10%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Jade Tone Faint
#8FA399 · hsl(150, 10%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Tone Faint
#92A38F · hsl(110, 10%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Tone Faint
#928FA3 · hsl(250, 10%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Tone Faint
#A3928F · hsl(10, 10%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Tone Faint
#9C8FA3 · hsl(280, 10%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Tone Faint
#A38F96 · hsl(340, 10%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Tone Faint #8FA392
Lighter companion: Mint Silk Faint #A5B6A8
Darker companion: Mint Radiant Faint #7E9582
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Tone Faint #A38FA0
Analogous lead: Jade Tone Faint #8FA399
Analogous echo: Leaf Tone Faint #92A38F
Triadic +120°: Violet Tone Faint #928FA3
Triadic +240°: Ruby Tone Faint #A3928F
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Tone Faint #9C8FA3
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Tone Faint #A38F96

Compare

See how Mint Tone Faint compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Silk FaintvsMint Radiant FaintvsPeony Tone FaintvsJade Tone FaintvsLeaf Tone FaintvsViolet Tone Faint

Nearest neighbors

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

Search by hex
Nearby match
Mint Tone Muted
#87AB8D · hsl(130, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Faint
#7E9582 · hsl(130, 10%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Faint
#A5B6A8 · hsl(130, 10%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Tone Dust
#7EB487 · hsl(130, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Muted
#759F7C · hsl(130, 18%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Faint
#6E8772 · hsl(130, 10%, 48%)

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
Violet Ink Pure
#0E0345
AAA7:1
Amethyst Ink Bright
#0B0642
AAA7.1:1
Amethyst Ink Pure
#080345
AAA7:1
Iris Ink Vivid
#09093E
AAA7:1
Iris Ink Bright
#060642
AAA7.1:1
Iris Ink Pure
#030345

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#979597
Protanopia
#989896
Tritanopia
#909A9A
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Mint Tone Faint#8FA392 · hsl(130, 10%, 60%)Mint Tone Muted#87AB8D · hsl(130, 18%, 60%)Mint Tone Dust#7EB487 · hsl(130, 26%, 60%)Mint Tone Soft#76BC82 · hsl(130, 34%, 60%)Mint Tone Clear#62D074 · hsl(130, 54%, 60%)Mint Tone Vivid#4EE467 · hsl(130, 74%, 60%)Mint Tone Bright#43EF60 · hsl(130, 84%, 60%)Mint Tone Pure#3BF75A · hsl(130, 92%, 60%)
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