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Organized Friar Mint

#a0f1be
Notes

Organized Friar Mint (#A0F1BE) is a soft green with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (142°, 74%, 79%) places it in the balanced band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. 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
#a0f1be
RGB
rgb(160, 241, 190)
HSL
hsl(142, 74%, 79%)
HWB
hwb(142 63% 5%)
OKLCH
oklch(89.2% 0.106 155.9)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6981 0.9367 0.7602)
HSV
hsv(142, 34%, 95%)
LAB
lab(88.97% -35.18 16.92)
LCH
lch(88.97% 39.04 154.31)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 0%, 21%, 5%)

Etymology

Organized
adjective

Greek órganon, instrument / tool — past-participle of organize. As a color modifier, organized implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-systematic quality where the hue carries the visual register of well-coordinated-and-classified arrangement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to orderly and methodical in usage.

Friar
modifier

Old French frere, brother. As a color modifier, friar implies a Franciscan-and-Dominican-mendicant quality, the visual register of Franciscan-and-Dominican-Friar hand-spun robe-and-rope-belt-and-sandal Franciscan-and-Dominican-mendicant-and-preaching surfaces under Franciscan-and-Dominican mendicant-Friar hand-spun-robe-and-sandal preaching-tour light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to monk and nun 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.

#a0f1be
Original
#f0e5bb
Protanopia
#e3dcc1
Deuteranopia
#91efe3
Tritanopia
#dcdcdc
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
1.33:1
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
15.82:1

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
##A0F1BE
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6981 0.9367 0.7602)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.106

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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