What a mint screen is used for
- Calm, cool backgrounds for photography and video
- Ambient screen light that is easy to look at for long periods
- A gentler alternative to green for backdrops
Mint screen online: #3EB489 at full screen
Mint is a desaturated green with a clear blue lean — green high, red and blue present in smaller amounts. That mix is what makes it read as fresh and cool rather than as the electric primary green of a chroma key.
It is a poor chroma key colour for exactly that reason: keying software needs a saturated, isolated channel, and mint has too much red and blue in it to cut cleanly. Use the green screen page for that.
How to get a full screen mint background
Press the fullscreen button on the player above, or the F key. Escape returns you to the page. On a desktop browser F11 does the same job and hides the browser's own toolbars as well.
The colour box is a control, not a picture: use the hex field to enter any value, pick another shade from the palette, or download the current colour as a PNG at your screen's resolution. Whatever you set is written into the address bar, so the link you copy reproduces exactly what you are looking at.