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Mint Core Bright
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Mint Core Bright

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#14E136
RGB
rgb(20, 225, 54)
HSL
hsl(130, 84%, 48%)
CMYK
cmyk(91%, 0%, 76%, 12%)
Metrics
S 84% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.8:1Fail
on black
11.9:1AA
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About this color

Mint Core Bright (#14E136) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 84% saturation, 48% 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-core-bright: #14E136;
  --colorarchive-mint-core-bright-hsl: hsl(130, 84%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-mint-core-bright-rgb: rgb(20, 225, 54);
}

AI Color Names

Let AI suggest alternative poetic names for this color in English and Chinese.

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 the longest-running brands.

Heritage

Verdigris (copper acetate) gave medieval manuscripts 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 and Paris green, both 19th-century arsenic compounds, killed an unknown number of wallpaper-makers and Victorian children before viridian and phthalo greens replaced them. Modern green pigments are remarkably stable; the iconic Brunswick green that became British Racing Green dates to the same chemistry.

Across cultures

Green is the dominant color of Islam — the Prophet's banner, the flags of many Muslim-majority nations, the domes of mosques. In Ireland green is national identity, partly through the shamrock and partly through the political binary with orange. In Japan, green and blue (ao/midori) were a single concept until recently; traffic 'green lights' there are still a deeper teal-ish shade. Across many cultures green simultaneously means growth, fertility, envy, and the supernatural.

In the wild

Starbucks' green has barely changed since 1971. John Deere has used essentially the same green since 1837 — the longest continuous brand color in commerce. The U.S. dollar is green because of the chemistry of camphor and copper sulfate, not branding. Whatsapp, Spotify, and Heineken all anchor on green; each chose it for a different reason (community, sound, Dutch heritage). Hospital scrubs were originally white but switched to green/teal because surgeons were getting after-image fatigue.

How it reads

Green is the hue the eye is most efficient at parsing — half of all our cone cells are tuned near 555nm. That makes green the easiest color to look at for long periods, which is why it dominates productivity software, 'go' indicators, and reading-friendly UI. At low saturation it reads as natural, calm, premium (sage, olive). At high saturation it reads as urgent or playful (Mountain Dew, Slack notifications). It carries one of the strongest semantic loads in product design: 'success', 'go', 'natural', 'safe'.

This particular tone

A vivid mid-tone — distinctive enough to anchor an identity, saturated enough to demand a quiet supporting palette.

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

Saturation band: At this saturation the color is doing work. It reads as a brand statement, a sport accessory, or a UI signal. It should be used in small, deliberate doses against quieter neighbors; large fields at this saturation will exhaust the eye.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #14E136.

  • Stripeaccent
    Success Green · #00D924
    →
  • WeChat 微信primary
    WeChat Green · #07C160
    →
  • Figmaprimary
    Figma Green · #0ACF83
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #14E136.

  • IrelandCeltic Cross Green
    #169B62 · Irish flag — Pantone 347
    →
  • AustraliaReef Turquoise
    #3FBFB9 · Whitsunday lagoons
    →

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 Radiant Bright
#27EC48 · hsl(130, 84%, 54%)
Darker companion
Mint Velvet Bright
#11C52F · hsl(130, 84%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Core Bright
#E114BF · hsl(310, 84%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Jade Core Bright
#14E17A · hsl(150, 84%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Core Bright
#36E114 · hsl(110, 84%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Core Bright
#3614E1 · hsl(250, 84%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Core Bright
#E13614 · hsl(10, 84%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Core Bright
#9D14E1 · hsl(280, 84%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Core Bright
#E11458 · hsl(340, 84%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Core Bright #14E136
Lighter companion: Mint Radiant Bright #27EC48
Darker companion: Mint Velvet Bright #11C52F
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Core Bright #E114BF
Analogous lead: Jade Core Bright #14E17A
Analogous echo: Leaf Core Bright #36E114
Triadic +120°: Violet Core Bright #3614E1
Triadic +240°: Ruby Core Bright #E13614
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Core Bright #9D14E1
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Core Bright #E11458

Compare

See how Mint Core Bright compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Radiant BrightvsMint Velvet BrightvsPeony Core BrightvsJade Core BrightvsLeaf Core BrightvsViolet Core Bright

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Core Pure
#0AEB2F · hsl(130, 92%, 48%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Bright
#11C52F · hsl(130, 84%, 42%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Bright
#27EC48 · hsl(130, 84%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Vivid
#20D53E · hsl(130, 74%, 48%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Pure
#09CE29 · hsl(130, 92%, 42%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Pure
#1EF642 · hsl(130, 92%, 54%)

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
AAA7.4:1
Peony Nocturne Faint
#382E36
AAA7.5:1
Peony Nocturne Muted
#3C2A39
AAA7.6:1
Peony Nocturne Dust
#40263C
AAA7.7:1
Peony Nocturne Soft
#44223F
AAA7.7:1
Peony Nocturne Clear
#4F1745
AAA7.5:1
Peony Nocturne Vivid
#590D4C

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#928489
Protanopia
#9C9D7E
Tritanopia
#3B9FA5
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