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Buttoned Druid Mint

#9cfbcb
Notes

Buttoned Druid Mint (#9CFBCB) is a soft teal with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (150°, 92%, 80%) 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
#9cfbcb
RGB
rgb(156, 251, 203)
HSL
hsl(150, 92%, 80%)
HWB
hwb(150 61% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(91.6% 0.113 161.1)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6977 0.9748 0.8091)
HSV
hsv(150, 38%, 98%)
LAB
lab(91.85% -38.39 14.25)
LCH
lch(91.85% 40.95 159.64)
CMYK
cmyk(38%, 0%, 19%, 2%)

Etymology

Buttoned
adjective

Old French bouton, button — past-participle of button. As a color modifier, buttoned implies a clear-and-fastened-and-formal quality, the crisp color of Edwardian-period formal-attire fully-fastened-and-formally-dressed gentleman's-attire. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and pressed in usage.

Druid
modifier

Latin Druidae, Druids. As a color modifier, druid implies a Celtic-priest-and-mistletoe quality, the visual register of Celtic-British-and-Gaulish-Druidic Druidic hand-cut sacred-grove-and-mistletoe-and-stone-circle pre-Christian-Celtic surfaces under Celtic-British-and-Gaulish Druidic sacred-grove-and-stone-circle dawn light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to celtic and gaul 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.

#9cfbcb
Original
#f9eec8
Protanopia
#e9e3ce
Deuteranopia
#86faed
Tritanopia
#e3e3e3
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
1.23:1
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
17.07:1

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
##9CFBCB
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6977 0.9748 0.8091)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.113

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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