Mount Eden
#e7efe0
Fresh, muted cool gray with airy lift
About Mount Eden
I see Mount Eden as a light gray with a faint, fresh green tint, like a pale stone pulled from a shady garden path. It reads steadier than Homoeopathic Green, which feels almost washed into white, and it doesn't have the limey bite of Homoeopathic Lime. Compared to Distant Landscape, this one stays cooler and less gray-tilted, so it doesn't announce itself as strongly on first glance.
This is the shade I pick when the UI needs breathing room without turning into a near-white field. It works well for dashboards and finance apps that still need a soft, nature-adjacent calm, and it's a solid background for product documentation, admin panels, and settings screens under light photography. The one you reach for when you want subtle freshness that stays controlled, especially with cool grays as your primary surfaces.
One small quirk: keep accents slightly more saturated than you think you need. Too-muted buttons or text can make the green undertone feel flat against very low-contrast UI states.
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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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