Jade Whisper Muted (#EDF2F0) belongs to the teal family — hue 150°, 18% saturation, 94% lightness. Copy the hex, RGB, or HSL value above, or paste the CSS custom property below into your stylesheet to reference this color directly.
:root { --colorarchive-jade-whisper-muted: #EDF2F0; --colorarchive-jade-whisper-muted-hsl: hsl(150, 18%, 94%); --colorarchive-jade-whisper-muted-rgb: rgb(237, 242, 240); }
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Coral for playful energy, light gray for modern minimalism
Ideal for tech product interfaces. Light teal works as a primary brand color that feels both professional and approachable.
Light teal blends the calm of blue with the renewal of green. Associated with clear water, clarity, and modern thinking.
The hue of patina, lagoons, and modern surgery.
Teal — the blue-green range — is named after the Eurasian teal duck, whose wing patches sit at exactly this hue. Egyptian blue and Egyptian green, both made from copper-calcium silicate around 2,500 BCE, sit in this region. The patina of weathered copper (the Statue of Liberty's color) is teal because copper carbonate forms there; Bacon's verdigris is the same chemistry. Phthalo turquoise and cobalt teal are 20th-century pigments.
In Persian and Central Asian Islamic architecture, teal-turquoise tile work is iconic — the domes of Samarkand and Isfahan are unmistakable. In ancient Egypt, faience (a kind of glazed ceramic in this color) was associated with the Nile, fertility, and rebirth. In the American Southwest, teal-turquoise is so deeply associated with Navajo and Pueblo silverwork that the color reads 'desert' there.
Hospital scrubs are teal because it's the perceptual complement of red blood — staring at red and then looking away produces a green-teal afterimage, and matching the scrubs to that afterimage reduces eye fatigue. Tiffany's blue is a calibrated teal, trademarked as PMS 1837 (their founding year). Most Pixar films grade their shadows toward teal because warm skin against cool shadow is the most legible cinematographic combination. The Apple Watch SE, the Surface Pro, and the new Macs all use teal as a 'calming-but-modern' accent.
Teal sits at one of the visually quietest points of the spectrum — it neither advances (like red) nor recedes (like blue). It reads as competent, calm, and slightly clinical; it's the dominant accent color in healthcare and trust-led fintech for that reason. At low saturation it becomes a duck-egg or seafoam, soft and Scandinavian. At high saturation it becomes electric or tropical. Teal pairs particularly well with warm earth tones (terracotta, clay, beige).
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.
Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #EDF2F0.
From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #EDF2F0.
Instead of stopping at one swatch, use nearby, opposite, and tonal neighbors to branch into a broader palette.
Base: Jade Whisper Muted #EDF2F0 Lighter companion: Jade Veil Muted #F9FBFA Darker companion: Jade Mist Muted #E1EAE6 Complementary counterpoint: Blush Whisper Muted #F2EDF0 Analogous lead: Cyan Whisper Muted #EDF2F2 Analogous echo: Mint Whisper Muted #EDF2EE Triadic +120°: Plum Whisper Muted #F0EDF2 Triadic +240°: Coral Whisper Muted #F2F0ED Split-comp +150°: Fuchsia Whisper Muted #F2EDF2 Split-comp +210°: Crimson Whisper Muted #F2EDED
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