Harper Cashmere Tie Dye Sweater
Aquamarine
#9FE0C0
Warm mint
A Light Spring color
anchor color 4 of 10 in Light Spring. Also called Light Warm Spring in other systems.
By Kathleen Olsen · Updated November 11, 2026
Warm mint is a pale green with enough yellow in it to feel fresh rather than icy. It is anchor color four in the Light Spring palette and one of the season's clearest colors: light, warm, and clean. The mint that reads cold and slightly blue is a different color and belongs to the Summers.
Warm mint is an anchor color in Light Spring. Nothing on the same side of the warm–cool line comes within twenty points of it; the nearest is Warm turquoise #1FC3B8 in True Spring at 24. That makes it a clean test. If it suits you, you are in this palette.
Mint is a word that covers two colors. One is a pale green with yellow in it, which is this. The other is a pale green with blue in it, which is Light Summer's cool mint, ten points away. On a hanger they are nearly identical. On a person the warm one makes a Light Spring look rested and the cool one makes them look slightly grey around the mouth.
Light Spring is light, warm, and clear, and warm mint hits all three. The lightness means it does not overpower the season's delicate contrast. The warmth matches the yellow undertone in the skin. The clarity keeps it from going muddy, which is the failure mode for pale greens on most people. It is close to a perfect color for the season and a difficult one for everyone else.
The warm seasons that are not Light Spring approach it from the saturated side. True Spring and Bright Spring each have a warm turquoise around twenty-four points away, brighter and bluer. Those are the colors to buy if warm mint feels too pale. The Autumns do not have a mint at all; their nearest green is a sage, which is darker and greyer.
Light Summer's cool mint is the problem, ten points away and the same idea with the temperature flipped. Light Summer's light sea green is twelve points away and a little more saturated. Neither will look wrong on a rail. Both will look slightly off on a Light Spring, as a faint blue cast against warm skin.
The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).
Cool mint #B0E0CE
Light Summer anchor · ΔE 10
Light sea green #8FC6B4
Light Summer anchor · ΔE 12
Cool mint #9DC4B5
True Summer anchor · ΔE 15
Warm turquoise #1FC3B8
True Spring anchor · ΔE 24
Warm turquoise #16BFA6
Bright Spring anchor · ΔE 24
Greyed aqua #8FB0AE
Soft Summer anchor · ΔE 24
As of November 11, 2026, 1 in-stock piece across Marine Layer sample within a close match of #9FE0C0. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.
Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #9FE0C0 today, so they are the words to search for.
A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.
Yes. Warm mint (#9FE0C0) is an anchor color in the Light Spring palette. No other palette on the same side of the warm–cool line has a color near it, which makes it a reliable test for the season.
Light Summer has its own cool mint, which is ten points from this one and the better choice. The difference is undertone: warm mint has yellow, cool mint has blue. On a Light Summer the warm version reads slightly yellow against the skin.
Yes, though it may feel pale. True Spring is warm and clear like Light Spring but with more depth, and warm mint can disappear on it. True Spring's warm turquoise, about twenty-four points away, has the same temperature with more saturation.
Either, depending on the mint. A mint with yellow in it is warm and belongs to Light Spring. A mint with blue in it is cool and belongs to Light Summer. RGB 159, 224, 192 has green well ahead of blue, which puts this one on the warm side.
The rest of Light Spring: apricot, warm coral, light warm periwinkle, cream, and the season's soft stone and warm beige neutrals. It also works with warm white. It does not work with grey, which turns it cold.
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