# Mint Forest Shade Study

Pale mint, fresh green, emerald, forest green, and near-black bring a single cool color family across a broad lightness range. The strong but controlled saturation gives the palette a crisp, grounded mood while retaining clear shade separation. It suits botanical branding, dark interface accents, woodland posters, and searches for green shades, emerald palettes, or forest color swatches.

- Also called: Monochrome light green and black linear swatches
- Seed: `kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4`
- Page: https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45
- Drawn as: linear swatches, 5 steps, 45 degrees
- Kinds: light to dark, cool, monochrome
- Hues: analogous
- Contrast of its darkest and lightest colors: 10.4 to 1

## Colors

The name most people give each color, and the text color that reads on it with its contrast.

| Stop | Hex | OKLCH | Name | Text on it |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | `#a8e6b9` | `oklch(87.01% 0.0882 152.58)` | Overtone | black, 14.6 to 1 |
| 2 | `#49b375` | `oklch(68.90% 0.1350 154.69)` | Midori Green | black, 7.9 to 1 |
| 3 | `#2b7f55` | `oklch(53.54% 0.1047 157.86)` | Kākāriki Green | white, 4.8 to 1 |
| 4 | `#2b5444` | `oklch(40.94% 0.0537 166.32)` | Fresh Mint | white, 8.6 to 1 |
| 5 | `#172a27` | `oklch(26.77% 0.0262 183.22)` | Swamp Thing | white, 15 to 1 |

## CSS

```css
background: linear-gradient(45deg, #a8e6b9 0.000% 20.000%, #49b375 20.000% 40.000%, #2b7f55 40.000% 60.000%, #2b5444 60.000% 80.000%, #172a27 80.000% 100.000%);
background: linear-gradient(45deg, oklch(87.01% 0.0882 152.58) 0.000% 20.000%, oklch(68.90% 0.1350 154.69) 20.000% 40.000%, oklch(53.54% 0.1047 157.86) 40.000% 60.000%, oklch(40.94% 0.0537 166.32) 60.000% 80.000%, oklch(26.77% 0.0262 183.22) 80.000% 100.000%);
```

## Keyframes

5 OKLCH keyframes joined by a Catmull-Rom spline. Hue is unwrapped degrees.

| Keyframe | Lightness | Chroma | Hue |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 0.87 | 0.088 | 152.6 |
| 2 | 0.689 | 0.135 | 154.7 |
| 3 | 0.535 | 0.105 | 157.9 |
| 4 | 0.409 | 0.054 | 166.3 |
| 5 | 0.268 | 0.026 | 183.2 |

## In these collections

- [Shade swatches](https://grabient.com/shade-swatches)

## Other forms

- [JSON](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.json?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [PNG](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.png?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [SVG](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.svg?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [CSS](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.css?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [ASE](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.ase?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [GPL](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.gpl?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [GRD](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.grd?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [Design tokens](https://grabient.com/kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4.tokens.json?style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [Social card](https://grabient.com/api/og?seed=kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4&style=linearSwatches&steps=5&angle=45)
- [Palettes like this one](https://grabient.com/palettes?q=kW3UBs17FAMQmQE0E8DognB4)
- [Guide for agents](https://grabient.com/llms.txt)