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Scale from white (50) through Mint Green (500) to black (900), interpolated in Lab color space.
Color Values
- HEX
- #98FF98
- RGB
- rgb(152, 255, 152)
- HSL
- hsl(120, 100%, 80%)
- OKLCH
- oklch(0.913 0.168 144)
- CMYK
- cmyk(40%, 0%, 40%, 0%)
--color-mint-greenbg-[#98FF98]Accessibility
Score: 48/100On White (#FFF)
1.23:1
On Black (#000)
17.09:1
On Light Gray (#F5F5F5)
1.13:1
Best text color on this background:
Design Applications
background-color: #98FF98
color: #98FF98
bg-[#98FF98] text-[#000000]
border-left: 4px solid #98FF98
Color Harmonies
Similar Colors
Color Meaning & Psychology
Green occupies the center of the visible spectrum where the eye is most sensitive, making it the easiest color to process — literally restful for the eye. Green's associations with nature, growth, and fresh produce are deeply biological, rooted in the evolutionary advantage of finding food. In finance, "going green" means profit. In design, green signals health, sustainability, and natural ingredients. Darker greens evoke prestige and reliability; lighter greens feel fresh and energetic; blue-greens feel sophisticated and trustworthy. Green is uniquely cross-cultural in positive associations, though it represents environmental risk in some financial contexts. Its lighter value makes it approachable and soft — suitable for backgrounds, secondary UI states, and contexts requiring the hue's character without full intensity.
Industry Usage
Common contexts and industries where Mint Green is applied in professional design.
- Financial services and investment platforms
- Health, wellness, and organic food brands
- Environmental and sustainability organizations
- Pharmaceutical and medical products
- Agriculture and farming brands
- Eco-friendly consumer goods
- Real estate and property development
- Success and achievement badges in UI
Accessibility Considerations
Normal Text
Fails AA
4.5:1 minimum required
Large Text
Fails AA Large
3:1 minimum required
UI Components
Check contrast
3:1 for non-text UI
Mint Green is a light color. Use black (#000000) text on top of it for maximum readability (17.09:1). Avoid white text on this background.
CSS & Code Examples
Background
background-color: #98FF98;Text
color: #98FF98;Border
border: 2px solid #98FF98;Box Shadow
box-shadow: 0 4px 20px #98FF9840;Gradient
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #98FF98, #ccffca);Tailwind-style
--color-mint-green: #98FF98;Tailwind CSS Utilities
Use arbitrary value syntax in Tailwind CSS to apply Mint Green without a custom config.
Background
bg-[#98FF98]Text
text-[#98FF98]Border
border-[#98FF98]Ring
ring-[#98FF98]Fill
fill-[#98FF98]From (gradient)
from-[#98FF98]Via (gradient)
via-[#98FF98]To (gradient)
to-[#98FF98]Design Tokens
Ready-to-use Mint Green design token in CSS custom properties, SCSS, Tailwind v3/v4, and JSON formats.
CSS Custom Properties
:root {
--color-mint-green: #98FF98;
--color-mint-green-rgb: 152, 255, 152;
--color-mint-green-hsl: 120, 100%, 80%;
}SCSS Variables
$color-mint-green: #98FF98; $color-mint-green-rgb: 152, 255, 152; $color-mint-green-hsl: 120, 100%, 80%;
Tailwind v3 Config
// tailwind.config.js
module.exports = {
theme: {
extend: {
colors: {
'mint-green': '#98FF98',
},
},
},
};Tailwind v4 (@theme)
/* tailwind.css */
@theme {
--color-mint-green: #98FF98;
}JSON Design Token (W3C format)
{
"mint-green": {
"value": "#98FF98",
"type": "color",
"description": "Mint Green — #98FF98"
}
}Related Palettes & Combinations
Color Combinations
Accessible Color Pairs
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View all →What Does Mint Green Mean? Color Psychology & Cultural Symbolism
Among the visible spectrum's hues, green holds a special place in human perception—it occupies the exact center wavelength range where the eye's cone cells are most sensitive, creating a uniquely comfortable, balanced viewing experience. Mint Green (#98FF98) channels this as harmony: a quality that feels as natural as it is intentional.
- Green carries multiple Western associations: nature and the environment, financial success and prosperity (money in the US), health and wellness, and the "go" signal in traffic systems. Dark greens suggest wealth and tradition; bright greens signal vitality and environmental consciousness.
- In Chinese culture, green is associated with growth, harmony, and fertility. In Islam, green holds sacred significance as the color of paradise and the Prophet. In Japan, green (midori) represents youth, freshness, and eternal life.
- Mint Green's light lightness (80%) shifts its psychological register: Mint and sage tones feel fresh, airy, and calming—popular in wellness, beauty, and minimalist design for their ability to add life without dominance.
- At 100% saturation, Mint Green reads as vivid—Electric and lime greens are among the most energetic hues in the spectrum—striking, modern, and attention-commanding, used in sports, gaming, and tech-forward branding.
The enduring power of Mint Green is that it never needs to explain itself—growth, health, and permission are universally understood.
How to Use Mint Green in Design: Applications, Pairings & Best Practices
The design applications of Mint Green span from digital UI states to full brand identity systems. Its vivid saturation (100%) means it reads as a high-energy presence that demands attention in any composition in both contexts—backgrounds, washes, and subtle tints where presence is needed without dominance in background uses, more active as an accent.
- UI components: success states, confirmation messages, positive trends—Mint Green performs reliably in all these roles with its light tonal character.
- Brand & identity: success states, approval indicators, sustainability branding—contexts where Mint Green's vivid quality creates the right register.
- Typography: Mint Green as text requires a dark background; its 80% lightness means it provides 1.2:1 contrast on white, not meeting WCAG AA.
- Mint Green creates strong legibility with black text overlays (17.1:1 contrast ratio), making it a reliable background or surface color in design systems
- Proportional use: Mint Green's vivid saturation (100%) means small applications—accents, highlights, icons—deliver maximum impact without visual fatigue. Reserve large-scale use for intentional brand moments.
The enduring power of Mint Green is that it never needs to explain itself—growth, health, and permission are universally understood.
Mint Green Accessibility: WCAG Contrast Ratios, Color Blindness & Inclusive Design
Mint Green (#98FF98) achieves a 17.09:1 contrast ratio with black text, surpassing the WCAG 2.1 AAA threshold of 7:1. This exceptional contrast qualifies it for body text, UI components at any size, and all accessibility-sensitive interface contexts. Relative luminance: 80.5%.
- As text on white (#FFFFFF): 1.23:1 — Fail
- As text on black (#000000): 17.09:1 — AAA ✓
- Best text color on Mint Green background: Black (#000000) at 17.09:1
- WCAG 2.1 luminance: 80.5% — high-luminance (near-white)—it provides excellent readability for dark text overlays and integrates naturally into light design systems
- Mint Green qualifies for all text sizes including small body copy (AAA).
Mint Green's WCAG profile makes it a compliant choice for most text applications.
Mint Green in Industry: Branding, Design & Market Applications
Mint Green (#98FF98) is most at home in industries where growth, nature, health, and balance are key brand values. Its light quality makes it particularly effective in Healthcare & Wellness contexts, where the vivid saturation signals health at exactly the right register.
- Healthcare & Wellness: Green's association with health, nature, and healing makes it the second-most-common color in healthcare branding (after blue). It signals vitality, recovery, and natural wellness without the clinical coldness of pure white or blue. (examples: CVS Health, Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente) Works best in teal-green and sage variations for digital health products; more saturated greens suit fitness and sports medicine.
- Finance & Banking: In Western markets, the green-money association is deeply embedded. Financial institutions use dark, sophisticated greens to communicate growth, prosperity, and fiduciary reliability. It's equally effective for positive portfolio indicators and "go" confirmation states in trading UIs. (examples: Capital One, PayPal, Visa) Dark greens with gold accents signal premium financial services; bright greens in fintech apps signal growth metrics.
- Sustainability & Organic: Green is the categorical color of environmental consciousness. Sustainability brands, organic food labels, and clean-energy companies use it as an immediate, unambiguous signal of ecological values and natural origin. (examples: Pela Case, Grove Collaborative, Allbirds) The challenge is differentiation—nearly every sustainability brand uses green, so typography, illustration style, and specific tone matter more.
- Brand positioning: Mint Green is best suited for brands projecting health, sustainability, growth. Categories outside this positioning—warning or danger contexts (except for safety signs)—tend to see weaker results.
- Adjacent applications: Beyond primary industries, Mint Green works effectively in success states, approval indicators, sustainability branding—contexts where health serves a secondary but reinforcing role.
The industries where Mint Green performs best are those where the audience expects health. Build brand strategy around this alignment, not against it.
Accessibility & Design Guides
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is the hex code for Mint Green? ▾
- The hex code for Mint Green is #98FF98. Its RGB values are rgb(152, 255, 152) and its HSL values are hsl(120, 100%, 80%).
- What does Mint Green mean in design? ▾
- Green occupies the center of the visible spectrum where the eye is most sensitive, making it the easiest color to process — literally restful for the eye. Green's associations with nature, growth, and fresh produce are deeply biological, rooted in the evolutionary advantage of finding food. In finance, "going green" means profit. In design, green signals health, sustainability, and natural ingredients. Darker greens evoke prestige and reliability; lighter greens feel fresh and energetic; blue-greens feel sophisticated and trustworthy. Green is uniquely cross-cultural in positive associations, though it represents environmental risk in some financial contexts. Its lighter value makes it approachable and soft — suitable for backgrounds, secondary UI states, and contexts requiring the hue's character without full intensity.
- Is Mint Green WCAG accessible? ▾
- Mint Green (#98FF98) does not pass WCAG AA on white (1.23:1 ratio). Use it on dark backgrounds where it achieves 17.09:1. Its overall accessibility score is 48/100.
- What colors go well with Mint Green? ▾
- Mint Green pairs well with its complementary color Purple (#800080). Analogous colors like Chartreuse and Harlequin also work harmoniously. Check the Color Harmonies section above for the full palette.
- What is Mint Green used for? ▾
- Mint Green is commonly used for: Financial services and investment platforms; Health, wellness, and organic food brands; Environmental and sustainability organizations; Pharmaceutical and medical products; Agriculture and farming brands.
- What are the CSS and Tailwind values for Mint Green? ▾
- In CSS, use `color: #98FF98` or `background-color: #98FF98`. The CSS custom property is `--color-mint-green: #98FF98`. In Tailwind CSS, use the arbitrary value class `bg-[#98FF98]` for backgrounds or `text-[#98FF98]` for text.