#F4FDFA is a light neutral with only a whisper of temperate cast. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #F4FDFA works with other colors. Named schemes with #F4FDFA in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Mint Cream sets a calm, sun-bleached base here, wrapped in bone and paper off-whites and a soft greige, with a single ink accent for wabi-sabi restraint.
Mint Cream opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Mint Cream is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Mint Cream.
Mint Cream keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Mint Cream is the single accent in this high-contrast editorial system — set on near-white paper against near-black ink, with a warm grey and a desaturated tint of Mint Cream carrying the quiet middle.
How #F4FDFA actually behaves in design work — read from its OKLCH lightness, chroma and hue, not just its raw numbers. Ten signals to help you decide where this color earns its place.
Not a swatch to memorise — a color to build with. Here is #F4FDFA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #F4FDFA;
--color-base-rgb: 244 253 250;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(98.6% 0.010 174.3);
--color-50: #F2FDF9;
--color-100: #DCF9F0;
--color-200: #BAF2E0;
--color-300: #8BE4C6;
--color-400: #60D2AC;
--color-500: #3EB78F;
--color-600: #368C6F;
--color-700: #2C6351;
--color-800: #204136;
--color-900: #152822;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
mint-cream: {
50: '#F2FDF9',
100: '#DCF9F0',
200: '#BAF2E0',
300: '#8BE4C6',
400: '#60D2AC',
500: '#3EB78F',
600: '#368C6F',
700: '#2C6351',
800: '#204136',
900: '#152822',
},
}
$base: #F4FDFA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F2FDF9; $base-100: #DCF9F0; $base-200: #BAF2E0; $base-300: #8BE4C6; $base-400: #60D2AC; $base-500: #3EB78F; $base-600: #368C6F; $base-700: #2C6351; $base-800: #204136; $base-900: #152822; $base-hover: #9EEDD3; $base-subtle: #FCFEFD;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#F4FDFA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F2FDF9",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DCF9F0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#BAF2E0",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8BE4C6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#60D2AC",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3EB78F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#368C6F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2C6351",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#204136",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#152822",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}