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Misted Greenhouse

#e2fde0
Notes

Misted Greenhouse (#E2FDE0) 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 (116°, 88%, 94%) 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 violet. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.

HEX
#e2fde0
RGB
rgb(226, 253, 224)
HSL
hsl(116, 88%, 94%)
HWB
hwb(116 88% 1%)
OKLCH
oklch(96.7% 0.048 143.3)
P3
color(display-p3 0.9063 0.9889 0.8875)
HSV
hsv(116, 11%, 99%)
LAB
lab(96.74% -13.97 10.94)
LCH
lch(96.74% 17.74 141.95)
CMYK
cmyk(11%, 0%, 11%, 1%)

Etymology

Misted
adjective

Old English mist — past-participle of mist. As a color modifier, misted implies a pale-and-vapor-veiled quality, the pale color of Cornish-coast-and-Highland early-morning fog-and-mist atmospheric-veiled surface. Sits at the pale-and-veiled end of the grid, parallel to mistlike and foggy in usage.

Greenhouse
noun

A glass-walled growing structure — particularly the Victorian-era Crystal Palace-style conservatories of British country estates and the Wardian cases used to ship live plants across imperial trade routes. Greenhouse refers to the saturated green of dense tropical foliage seen through a glass roof: a saturated, slightly cool deep green.

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.

#e2fde0
Original
#fff7de
Protanopia
#faf5e1
Deuteranopia
#e0fbf5
Tritanopia
#f5f5f5
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
1.08:1
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
19.36:1

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
##E2FDE0
Display P3
Display P3
color(display-p3 0.9063 0.9889 0.8875)
Inside sRGBOKLCH chroma 0.048

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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