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Untroubled Slav Mint

#72c58e
Notes

Untroubled Slav Mint (#72C58E) is a true green with a cool character. It leans cool, sitting on the blue, green, and violet side of the wheel. Quiet and dependable, a fit for product UI and data visualization. Its HSL profile (140°, 42%, 61%) places it in the balanced band at a mid lightness. It works across type, buttons, and borders, saturated enough to feel deliberate but balanced enough to not fight the rest of the palette. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary magenta. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#72c58e
RGB
rgb(114, 197, 142)
HSL
hsl(140, 42%, 61%)
HWB
hwb(140 45% 23%)
OKLCH
oklch(75.6% 0.114 153.8)
P3
color(display-p3 0.5246 0.7645 0.5745)
HSV
hsv(140, 42%, 77%)
LAB
lab(73.19% -37.40 19.87)
LCH
lch(73.19% 42.35 152.02)
CMYK
cmyk(42%, 0%, 28%, 23%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Slav
modifier

Old Slavic Slověninъ, speaker / Slav. As a color modifier, slav implies an Eastern-European quality, the visual register of Slavonic-Russian-Polish-Czech hand-built Onion-domed-cathedral-and-folk-hand-painted Slavic-folk-tradition surfaces under Russian-Orthodox-and-Czech-and-Polish folk-painting cathedral light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to roman and celtic in usage.

Mint
noun

The genus Mentha — peppermint, spearmint, apple mint, water mint — the cooling herb whose menthol gives it that quality at the molecular level. The color refers to fresh peppermint leaves before drying: a clean, slightly cool green with the matte finish of trichome-rich leaf surface. Lighter than basil, cooler than parsley, with the mojito-and-Pimm's association of a herb tied to summer drinks across two continents.

Closest matches

The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.

Variations

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Harmonies

Accessibility

Color-vision simulation

How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.

#72c58e
Original
#c5b98b
Protanopia
#b8b091
Deuteranopia
#61c3b6
Tritanopia
#afafaf
Achromatopsia
WCAG contrast

The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.

The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
Failon White
2.08:1
The quick brown foxSample body text at normal size. The wcag minimum for body contrast is 4.5:1 (AA) or 7:1 (AAA).
AAAon Black
10.09:1

Wide gamut

Display P3 representation

The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.

sRGB hex
sRGB hex
##72C58E
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.5246 0.7645 0.5745)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.114

Moderately saturated colors gain a small bump in P3 — the difference is usually visible side-by-side on wide-gamut hardware but won't change the character of the color.

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