Chilled Cardamom
Chilled Cardamom (#E6FEDE) 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 (105°, 94%, 93%) 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.
Etymology
Old English cele, cold — past-participle of chill. As a color modifier, chilled implies a pale-and-cool-and-cool-shifted quality, the pale color of Champagne-and-Prosecco properly-chilled-and-iced-bucket effervescent-wine cool-temperature presentation. Sits at the pale-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to frosty and cool in usage.
Elettaria cardamomum, the South Asian and East African spice whose green pods are essential to Indian chai, Scandinavian kardemumma baking, and Arab coffee. The color refers to fresh green cardamom pods: a saturated, slightly cool yellow-green with the matte finish of dry seed pods. Cooler than fennel.
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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Accessibility
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.
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.
Wide gamut
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.
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.