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Untroubled Pater Mint

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Notes

Untroubled Pater Mint (#BEF5C4) 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 (127°, 73%, 85%) 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
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RGB
rgb(190, 245, 196)
HSL
hsl(127, 73%, 85%)
HWB
hwb(127 75% 4%)
OKLCH
oklch(92.0% 0.087 147.7)
HSV
hsv(127, 22%, 96%)
LAB
lab(91.79% -26.71 18.02)
LCH
lch(91.79% 32.22 146.00)
CMYK
cmyk(22%, 0%, 20%, 4%)

Etymology

Untroubled
adjective

Latin turbāre, to disturb — negative-prefix un- plus past-participle of trouble. As a color modifier, untroubled implies a clear-and-calm-and-undisturbed quality where the hue carries no visual agitation. Sits at the crisp-and-calm end of the grid, parallel to serene and placid in usage.

Pater
modifier

Latin pater, father. As a color modifier, pater implies a Latin-father-and-paterfamilias-and-Pater-Noster quality, the visual register of Pater-Noster-and-Roman-paterfamilias hand-Latin-father-and-paterfamilias-and-Pater-Noster Pater-Noster-and-Roman-paterfamilias-and-Catholic-prayer pater-and-Latin-father surfaces under Pater-Noster-and-Roman-paterfamilias-and-Catholic-prayer Roman-Senate-and-Catholic-liturgy paterfamilias-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to mater and dux 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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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
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Protanopia
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Deuteranopia
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Tritanopia
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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
17.05:1

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