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Serene Druid Mint

#a5f9cd
Notes

Serene Druid Mint (#A5F9CD) 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 (149°, 88%, 81%) 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
#a5f9cd
RGB
rgb(165, 249, 205)
HSL
hsl(149, 88%, 81%)
HWB
hwb(149 65% 2%)
OKLCH
oklch(91.6% 0.102 160.6)
HSV
hsv(149, 34%, 98%)
LAB
lab(91.75% -34.57 13.14)
LCH
lch(91.75% 36.98 159.19)
CMYK
cmyk(34%, 0%, 18%, 2%)

Etymology

Serene
adjective

Latin serēnus, clear / unclouded. As a color modifier, serene implies a clear-and-untroubled quality where the hue carries the visual register of cloudless-bright-day atmospheric stability. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to placid and untroubled 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.

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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.

#a5f9cd
Original
#f7edcb
Protanopia
#e9e3d0
Deuteranopia
#93f8ec
Tritanopia
#e4e4e4
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
17.03:1

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