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Symmetrical Amor Mint

#81f4c2
Notes

Symmetrical Amor Mint (#81F4C2) is a soft teal 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 (154°, 84%, 73%) places it in the highly saturated band at a light lightness. Best used in small doses, like logos, CTAs, focus rings, or highlight text, where its saturation becomes a feature rather than noise. 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
#81f4c2
RGB
rgb(129, 244, 194)
HSL
hsl(154, 84%, 73%)
HWB
hwb(154 51% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(88.6% 0.128 163.5)
HSV
hsv(154, 47%, 96%)
LAB
lab(88.57% -44.07 14.10)
LCH
lch(88.57% 46.28 162.26)
CMYK
cmyk(47%, 0%, 20%, 4%)

Etymology

Symmetrical
adjective

Greek symmetría, due-proportion — adjectival suffix -al, derived from sym-metron (with-measure). As a color modifier, symmetrical implies a clear-and-balanced-and-mirrored quality where the hue carries the visual register of bilateral-or-radial proportional symmetry. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to balanced and aligned in usage.

Amor
modifier

Latin amor, love. As a color modifier, amor implies a Latin-love-and-amor-vincit-omnia quality, the visual register of Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor hand-Latin-love-and-amor-vincit-omnia Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor-and-Ovid-Ars-Amatoria amor-and-Latin-love surfaces under Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor-and-Ovid-Ars-Amatoria Augustan-Rome-and-Renaissance-Italy Roman-love-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to vita and via 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.

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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.

#81f4c2
Original
#f0e6bf
Protanopia
#dfd9c5
Deuteranopia
#5df4e6
Tritanopia
#d8d8d8
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
1.34:1
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
15.65:1

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