Mint Coffee

#ccffee

Softer mint-gray with coffee warmth, less icy than Crushed Ice

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About Mint Coffee

Mint Coffee looks like it got dragged through coffee grounds and came out calmer. On my monitor it reads as a very pale, slightly creamy gray with a restrained mint tint, not the crisp cyan push you get from , and not the greener, more living wash of .

I use it when I want a soft, mint-leaning gray that stays readable over dark UI without feeling minty in a loud way. Dashboards and finance apps love it for secondary panels, quiet form backgrounds, and disabled button states where the surface should feel lightly textured. Compared to , which feels deliberately present, Mint Coffee is more muted and quieter. It holds temperature better too, because it doesn't swing blueward as easily as .

Pair it with cooler grays and blue-leaning accents. If you drop it next to saturated teals or greens, the tint competes and the whole area can flatten.

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On Gray 900 #18181b

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On Black #000000

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