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Mapped Vela Mint

#b2edc6
Notes

Mapped Vela Mint (#B2EDC6) 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 (140°, 62%, 81%) 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
#b2edc6
RGB
rgb(178, 237, 198)
HSL
hsl(140, 62%, 81%)
HWB
hwb(140 70% 7%)
OKLCH
oklch(89.5% 0.080 155.5)
P3
color(display-p3 0.7461 0.9229 0.7876)
HSV
hsv(140, 25%, 93%)
LAB
lab(88.97% -26.35 12.92)
LCH
lch(88.97% 29.35 153.89)
CMYK
cmyk(25%, 0%, 16%, 7%)

Etymology

Mapped
adjective

Latin mappa, cloth / napkin — past-participle of map. As a color modifier, mapped implies a clear-and-cartographic-and-surveyed quality, the crisp color of Ordnance-Survey-and-USGS scientific-and-cadastral cartographic-and-topographic mapping-and-projection. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to plotted and surveyed in usage.

Vela
modifier

Latin vela, sails-of-the-Argo. As a color modifier, vela implies a southern-hemisphere-and-Argo-sail-and-supernova-remnant quality, the visual register of Vela-supernova-remnant-and-Argo-sails hand-southern-hemisphere-and-Argo-sail-and-supernova-remnant Vela-supernova-remnant-and-Argo-sails-and-southern-Milky-Way vela-and-southern-hemisphere-and-Argo-sail surfaces under Vela-supernova-remnant-and-Argo-sails-and-southern-Milky-Way Southern-Cross-and-southern-zenith southern-stellar-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to cygnus and draco 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.

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Original
#ede4c4
Protanopia
#e2ddc8
Deuteranopia
#a8ece2
Tritanopia
#dedede
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
##B2EDC6
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.7461 0.9229 0.7876)
P3 has subtle headroomOKLCH chroma 0.080

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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