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Untroubled Manor Mint

#c4fed7
Notes

Untroubled Manor Mint (#C4FED7) 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°, 97%, 88%) 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
#c4fed7
RGB
rgb(196, 254, 215)
HSL
hsl(140, 97%, 88%)
HWB
hwb(140 77% 0%)
OKLCH
oklch(94.7% 0.079 155.2)
P3
color(display-p3 0.8152 0.9896 0.8543)
HSV
hsv(140, 23%, 100%)
LAB
lab(94.96% -25.74 12.77)
LCH
lch(94.96% 28.73 153.61)
CMYK
cmyk(23%, 0%, 15%, 0%)

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.

Manor
modifier

Latin manōrium, dwelling. As a color modifier, manor implies an English-aristocratic-country-house quality, the visual register of English-Manor-House hand-built timber-and-stone-and-tapestry hereditary-estate-and-tenant-village aristocratic surfaces under English-aristocratic-Manor-House hereditary-estate-and-pastoral country-day light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to throne and hall 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.

#c4fed7
Original
#fef5d5
Protanopia
#f4eed9
Deuteranopia
#bbfdf3
Tritanopia
#efefef
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
1.13:1
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
18.51:1

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
##C4FED7
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.8152 0.9896 0.8543)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.079

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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