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Cloudlike Mojito

#a8b298
Notes

Cloudlike Mojito (#A8B298) is a true lime 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 (83°, 14%, 65%) places it in the muted 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 indigo. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#a8b298
RGB
rgb(168, 178, 152)
HSL
hsl(83, 14%, 65%)
HWB
hwb(83 60% 30%)
OKLCH
oklch(74.8% 0.038 124.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.6660 0.6968 0.6053)
HSV
hsv(83, 15%, 70%)
LAB
lab(71.17% -8.24 12.12)
LCH
lch(71.17% 14.65 124.21)
CMYK
cmyk(6%, 0%, 15%, 30%)

Etymology

Cloudlike
adjective

A compound of cloud and like — used as a color modifier since the nineteenth century for hues with the optical softness of cumulus cloud. Cloudlike gray, cloudlike pink: very low saturation combined with high lightness and optical translucency. Sits at the pale-bucket alongside misty and feathery.

Mojito
noun

The Cuban cocktail of rum, lime, mint, sugar, and soda — popularized by Hemingway in Old Man and the Sea settings. Mojito color refers to a fresh-shaken mojito with crushed mint: a soft, slightly cool yellow-green with the optical clarity of muddled-herb-and-spirits.

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.

#a8b298
Original
#b5af97
Protanopia
#b4ae99
Deuteranopia
#aaafab
Tritanopia
#aeaeae
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
2.21:1
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
9.49:1

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
##A8B298
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.6660 0.6968 0.6053)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.038

This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.

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