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Mint Tone Soft
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Mint Tone Soft

Green · Hue 130
Hex
#76BC82
RGB
rgb(118, 188, 130)
HSL
hsl(130, 34%, 60%)
CMYK
cmyk(37%, 0%, 31%, 26%)
Metrics
S 34% · L 60%
Contrast (WCAG)
on white
2.3:1Fail
on black
9.3:1AA
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About this color

Mint Tone Soft (#76BC82) belongs to the green family — hue 130°, 34% saturation, 60% 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-tone-soft: #76BC82;
  --colorarchive-mint-tone-soft-hsl: hsl(130, 34%, 60%);
  --colorarchive-mint-tone-soft-rgb: rgb(118, 188, 130);
}

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 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 #76BC82.

  • Supabaseprimary
    Supabase Green · #3ECF8E
    →
  • Slackaccent
    Slack Green · #2EB67D
    →
  • Googleprimary
    Google Green · #34A853
    →

Cultures using a similar color

From the cultural-palette catalog, these regions feature a color close to #76BC82.

  • MoroccoMint Tea Green
    #62A87C · Atlas mountain spearmint
    →
  • Korea (Obangsaek)Celadon-Goryeo Green
    #7CA38E · Goryeo Dynasty ceramics, 12th-13th c.
    →
  • IcelandGlacial Cyan
    #75BBC1 · Vatnajökull ice cave light
    →

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 Silk Soft
#92C99B · hsl(130, 34%, 68%)
Darker companion
Mint Radiant Soft
#62B26F · hsl(130, 34%, 54%)
Complementary counterpoint
Peony Tone Soft
#BC76B0 · hsl(310, 34%, 60%)
Analogous lead
Jade Tone Soft
#76BC99 · hsl(150, 34%, 60%)
Analogous echo
Leaf Tone Soft
#82BC76 · hsl(110, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +120°
Violet Tone Soft
#8276BC · hsl(250, 34%, 60%)
Triadic +240°
Ruby Tone Soft
#BC8276 · hsl(10, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +150°
Mulberry Tone Soft
#A576BC · hsl(280, 34%, 60%)
Split-comp +210°
Garnet Tone Soft
#BC768D · hsl(340, 34%, 60%)
Export preview
Base: Mint Tone Soft #76BC82
Lighter companion: Mint Silk Soft #92C99B
Darker companion: Mint Radiant Soft #62B26F
Complementary counterpoint: Peony Tone Soft #BC76B0
Analogous lead: Jade Tone Soft #76BC99
Analogous echo: Leaf Tone Soft #82BC76
Triadic +120°: Violet Tone Soft #8276BC
Triadic +240°: Ruby Tone Soft #BC8276
Split-comp +150°: Mulberry Tone Soft #A576BC
Split-comp +210°: Garnet Tone Soft #BC768D

Compare

See how Mint Tone Soft compares side by side with related colors.

vsMint Silk SoftvsMint Radiant SoftvsPeony Tone SoftvsJade Tone SoftvsLeaf Tone SoftvsViolet Tone Soft

Nearest neighbors

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

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Nearby match
Mint Tone Dust
#7EB487 · hsl(130, 26%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Soft
#62B26F · hsl(130, 34%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Silk Soft
#92C99B · hsl(130, 34%, 68%)
Nearby match
Mint Tone Muted
#87AB8D · hsl(130, 18%, 60%)
Nearby match
Mint Radiant Dust
#6BA875 · hsl(130, 26%, 54%)
Nearby match
Mint Core Soft
#51A45F · hsl(130, 34%, 48%)

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
AAA7:1
Peony Ink Faint
#272026
AAA7.1:1
Peony Ink Muted
#2A1D28
AAA7.2:1
Peony Ink Dust
#2D1A2A
AAA7.2:1
Peony Ink Soft
#30182C
AAA7.2:1
Peony Ink Clear
#371031
AAA7.2:1
Peony Ink Vivid
#3E0935

Color Vision Simulation

How this color appears with different color vision deficiencies.

Full simulator
Deuteranopia
#959096
Protanopia
#999A93
Tritanopia
#7B9FA1
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