Mint #9FFEB0

About this color

#9FFEB0 is a very light, moderately saturated green. In OKLCH its lightness is 92%, its chroma 0.140 and its hue 149°. Its hue sits between the warm and cool halves of the wheel. It is the named color Mint. Black text reads best on it, at 17.27:1.

Colors that go with Mint

Matches found by rotating Mint around the OKLCH hue wheel, each labelled with the closest name in our list.

Color palettes with Mint

Curated color palettes that contain a color within ΔE 0.06 (OKLab) of Mint, closest first.

• Laser Overdrive
• Gumdrop Treasure
• Pot Loggia
• Atoll Haven

Similar named colors

The eight named colors closest to Mint, with their ΔE distance.

• Light Seafoam Green #A7FFB5 ΔE 0.011
• Light Mint Green #A6FBB2 ΔE 0.011
• Foam Green #90FDA9 ΔE 0.018
• Light Seafoam #A0FEBF ΔE 0.019
• Light Pastel Green #B2FBA5 ΔE 0.020
• Pastel Green #B0FF9D ΔE 0.027
• Pale Light Green #B1FC99 ΔE 0.028
• Mint Green #8FFF9F ΔE 0.028

More about Mint

• Shades of green
• What green means

How to make Mint

A starting recipe from common paint colors, found with a spectral paint model (the color mixer’s paint mode). Real pigments vary, so mix a small test batch and adjust.

• 4 parts white
• 1 part yellow
• 1 part green

Recipe result: #CCEFA7, a difference of ΔE 0.056 from Mint. That is close; add a little more of one paint to match.

What colors make green? | Color mixing chart

Codes for Mint in every format

Contrast

WCAG 2 contrast ratios are the conformance target: AA needs 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text, AAA needs 7:1. APCA Lc values are supplementary guidance from the WCAG 3 drafts.

Shades and tints of Mint

A 50–950 scale built in OKLCH: the hue is held, lightness follows a Tailwind v4-like curve, and every step is kept inside the sRGB gamut. This color sits at step 100.

1. Step 50

   50

   #EBFAED

   oklch(97% 0.023 149.4)

2. Step 100

   100 (this color)

   #9FFEB0

   oklch(91.8% 0.14 148.8)

3. Step 200

   200

   #ABECB5

   oklch(88.5% 0.1 148.8)

4. Step 300

   300

   #5DE07D

   oklch(81% 0.18 148.9)

5. Step 400

   400

   #00C153

   oklch(70.8% 0.2 148.9)

6. Step 500

   500

   #00A546

   oklch(63% 0.178 148.9)

7. Step 600

   600

   #008B39

   oklch(55.6% 0.158 148.7)

8. Step 700

   700

   #00752F

   oklch(49.1% 0.139 148.8)

9. Step 800

   800

   #006025

   oklch(42.7% 0.121 148.7)

10. Step 900

    900

    #00501E

    oklch(37.6% 0.107 148.8)

11. Step 950

    950

    #00300F

    oklch(27% 0.076 148.8)

Export this scale for Tailwind in the Tailwind colors tool

Mint with color blindness

Simulated with the Machado et al. (2009) model. ΔE is how far the color moves: below about 0.02 you would not notice a change.