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Mint Core Dust
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Mint Core Dust

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#5B9A65
RGB
rgb(91, 154, 101)
HSL
hsl(130, 26%, 48%)
CMYK
cmyk(41%, 0%, 34%, 40%)
Metrics
S 26% · L 48%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
3.4:1AA Large
on black
6.3:1AA
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About this color

Mint Core Dust (#5B9A65) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 26% 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-dust: #5B9A65;
  --colorarchive-mint-core-dust-hsl: hsl(130, 26%, 48%);
  --colorarchive-mint-core-dust-rgb: rgb(91, 154, 101);
}

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 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 most 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 #5B9A65.

  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →
  • GitHubaccent
    Success Green · #2DA44E
    →
  • Notionneutral
    Notion Gray · #787774
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #5B9A65.

  • VietnamRice Paddy Green
    #5F8D4E · Mekong Delta
    →
  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →
  • EgyptMalachite Green
    #3D9970 · Copper carbonate, Sinai mines
    →

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 Dust
#6BA875 · hsl(130, 26%, 54%)
Darker companion
Mint Velvet Dust
#4F8759 · hsl(130, 26%, 42%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Core Dust
#9A5B90 · hsl(310, 26%, 48%)
Analogous lead
Jade Core Dust
#5B9A7A · hsl(150, 26%, 48%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Core Dust
#659A5B · hsl(110, 26%, 48%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Core Dust
#655B9A · hsl(250, 26%, 48%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Core Dust
#9A655B · hsl(10, 26%, 48%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Core Dust
#855B9A · hsl(280, 26%, 48%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Core Dust
#9A5B70 · hsl(340, 26%, 48%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Core Dust #5B9A65
Lighter companion: Mint Radiant Dust #6BA875
Darker companion: Mint Velvet Dust #4F8759
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Core Dust #9A5B90
Analogous lead: Jade Core Dust #5B9A7A
Analogous echo: Leaf Core Dust #659A5B
Triadic +120°: Violet Core Dust #655B9A
Triadic +240°: Ruby Core Dust #9A655B
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Core Dust #855B9A
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Core Dust #9A5B70

Compare

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

vsMint Radiant DustvsMint Velvet DustvsPeony Core DustvsJade Core DustvsLeaf Core DustvsViolet Core Dust

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Core Muted
#64906C · hsl(130, 18%, 48%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Soft
#51A45F · hsl(130, 34%, 48%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Dust
#4F8759 · hsl(130, 26%, 42%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Dust
#6BA875 · hsl(130, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Faint
#6E8772 · hsl(130, 10%, 48%)
Nearby match
Mint Velvet Muted
#587E5E · hsl(130, 18%, 42%)

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
AA4.7:1
Peony Ink Faint
#272026
AA4.8:1
Peony Ink Muted
#2A1D28
AA4.8:1
Peony Ink Dust
#2D1A2A
AA4.8:1
Peony Ink Soft
#30182C
AA4.9:1
Peony Ink Clear
#371031
AA4.8:1
Peony Ink Vivid
#3E0935

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#787378
Protanopia
#7B7C75
Tritanopia
#5F7F82
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