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Mint Silk Clear
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Mint Silk Clear

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#81D990
RGB
rgb(129, 217, 144)
HSL
hsl(130, 54%, 68%)
CMYK
cmyk(41%, 0%, 34%, 15%)
Metrics
S 54% · L 68%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
1.7:1Fail
on black
12.3:1AA
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About this color

Mint Silk Clear (#81D990) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 54% saturation, 68% 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-silk-clear: #81D990;
  --colorarchive-mint-silk-clear-hsl: hsl(130, 54%, 68%);
  --colorarchive-mint-silk-clear-rgb: rgb(129, 217, 144);
}

AI Color Names

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

Design Context

CalmingHealingOpen
Common in

Wellness · Meditation Apps · Healthcare

Pairs well with

Soft lavender for serenity, warm cream for organic warmth

Design tip

Perfect for health and wellness interfaces. Light greens reduce visual stress — use for backgrounds in reading-heavy layouts.

Cultural context ▶

Mint and sage greens symbolize healing, tranquility, and renewal. Common in spa and wellness branding.

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 confident mid-tone — this is the workhorse register of the hue, and the band where most successful brand colors live.

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 clear, mid-saturation register is the most common identity sweet spot — saturated enough to register as a 'real' color, restrained enough not to fight typography or photography placed over it.

Brands using a similar color

Within the public brand-guidelines reference catalog, these are the closest matches to #81D990.

  • Discordaccent
    Online Green · #57F287
    →
  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #81D990.

  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →
  • China (Traditional)Celadon (青瓷)
    #9CB48F · Song Dynasty Longquan kilns
    →
  • ScandinaviaIittala Blue
    #A6CEDB · Aalto vase glassware (1936-)
    →

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 Bloom Clear
#A1E3AC · hsl(130, 54%, 76%)
Darker companion
Mint Tone Clear
#62D074 · hsl(130, 54%, 60%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Silk Clear
#D981CB · hsl(310, 54%, 68%)
Analogous lead
Jade Silk Clear
#81D9AD · hsl(150, 54%, 68%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Silk Clear
#90D981 · hsl(110, 54%, 68%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Silk Clear
#9081D9 · hsl(250, 54%, 68%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Silk Clear
#D99081 · hsl(10, 54%, 68%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Silk Clear
#BC81D9 · hsl(280, 54%, 68%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Silk Clear
#D9819F · hsl(340, 54%, 68%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Silk Clear #81D990
Lighter companion: Mint Bloom Clear #A1E3AC
Darker companion: Mint Tone Clear #62D074
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Silk Clear #D981CB
Analogous lead: Jade Silk Clear #81D9AD
Analogous echo: Leaf Silk Clear #90D981
Triadic +120°: Violet Silk Clear #9081D9
Triadic +240°: Ruby Silk Clear #D99081
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Silk Clear #BC81D9
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Silk Clear #D9819F

Compare

See how Mint Silk Clear compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Bloom ClearvsMint Tone ClearvsPeony Silk ClearvsJade Silk ClearvsLeaf Silk ClearvsViolet Silk Clear

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Tone Clear
#62D074 · hsl(130, 54%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Bloom Clear
#A1E3AC · hsl(130, 54%, 76%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Soft
#92C99B · hsl(130, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Vivid
#71EA85 · hsl(130, 74%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Clear
#4AC95F · hsl(130, 54%, 54%)
Nearby match
Emerald Silk Clear
#81D981 · hsl(120, 54%, 68%)

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
AAA7.6:1
Peony Nocturne Faint
#382E36
AAA7.7:1
Peony Nocturne Muted
#3C2A39
AAA7.9:1
Peony Nocturne Dust
#40263C
AAA7.9:1
Peony Nocturne Soft
#44223F
AAA8:1
Peony Nocturne Clear
#4F1745
AAA7.7:1
Peony Nocturne Vivid
#590D4C

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#A9A2AA
Protanopia
#AEAFA6
Tritanopia
#87B4B7
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