Mint green is a pale, cool green with a lot of white in it. #74C69D is 62% light at only 42% saturation, which is what makes it read as fresh rather than vivid. Grab the HEX codes from a scheme below, or build a custom mint-green palette around any base colour with the generator.
Mint Green Palette Ideas & HEX Codes
Fresh Mint is the standard ramp, #D8F3DC down to #52B788. Cool Mint sits a few degrees bluer (154°–161°) and slightly more saturated throughout. Mint & Sage is the only set with a dark step, #3E7A5E, so it is the one that can carry text.
Fresh Mint
#D8F3DC
#B7E4C7
#95D5B2
#74C69D
#52B788
Cool Mint
#E0F5EC
#B8EAD6
#8ADEBC
#5CC9A0
#2FA983
Mint & Sage
#DDF3E4
#A8D5BA
#74C69D
#5A9E7E
#3E7A5E
Anchored to a mint green base — press Space or Generate to roll more schemes. Click a swatch to copy its HEX, lock one to keep it while the rest re-roll, then export as CSS, JSON or HEX.
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Drag in the colour area or the hue bar, or type a HEX / RGB value, then build a scheme anchored to it.
What Goes With Mint Green
Mint is a background colour more than an accent, and it works against warm neutrals — cream, soft tan, or a peach for the classic pastel pairing. A charcoal or deep green supplies the contrast it lacks. Within the family, sage green is the greyer version and aqua the bluer one. Skincare, dental, spring and clean-product branding use it.
Frequently Asked Questions
What HEX codes make a mint green palette?
Mint green is a light, cool, slightly minty green: pale tints (#D8F3DC, #E0F5EC), a true mint (#74C69D, #95D5B2) and a deeper green accent (#2FA983, #3E7A5E) for contrast. Keeping saturation soft and lightness high gives the clean, refreshing mint feel. Above you get three ready-made versions — Fresh Mint, Cool Mint and Mint & Sage — so you can lift a whole five-step ramp instead of assembling one. #3E7A5E is the darkest code on the page and #E0F5EC the lightest, a pairing worth 4.4:1, enough for large headings but short of the 4.5:1 needed for body text.
Is mint green warm or cool?
Cool. Every tone on this page sits between 129° and 161° hue, which is the blue half of green. That is what separates mint from a yellow-leaning green such as #7CB518 — and it is why mint looks correct beside blues and greys but can look sickly beside a warm yellow.
How do I use these colours in CSS?
Click Copy CSS for a ready-to-paste :root block with each colour as a custom property (--color-1, --color-2 and so on), or copy a single HEX straight from any swatch above. The Cool Mint row above is a second ready-made option — #E0F5EC, #2FA983 and the three steps between them — if you would rather not generate at all. The generator itself rolls around #74C69D, the base mint green for this page. Use Copy JSON for an array or Copy HEX for a comma-separated line if custom properties are not how your project stores colour.
Which mint green shade should I use as a background?
For a page or card background take the lightest step in the set — #E0F5EC on this page. Black text on #E0F5EC comes to 18.4:1, well past the 4.5:1 WCAG AA line. For a dark surface use #3E7A5E instead, the deepest code here, where white text gives 5:1. The mid steps are better spent on borders, chart fills and hover states, where nothing has to be read at 14px.