#39E480 is a mid-toned, cool teal-green. On the Color Lab it reads bold and ownable. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #39E480 works with other colors. Named schemes with #39E480 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Malachite keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Malachite is the vivid signal in this product UI — on a near-black surface with cool white, a slate grey and a lighter tint of Malachite.
Malachite leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Malachite 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 Malachite carrying the quiet middle.
Malachite 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.
How #39E480 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 #39E480 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #39E480;
--color-base-rgb: 57 228 128;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(81.2% 0.195 152.3);
--color-50: #F1FEF6;
--color-100: #DAFBE8;
--color-200: #B7F5D1;
--color-300: #87E9AF;
--color-400: #5AD88F;
--color-500: #37BD6F;
--color-600: #329059;
--color-700: #296642;
--color-800: #1E432D;
--color-900: #14291D;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
malachite: {
50: '#F1FEF6',
100: '#DAFBE8',
200: '#B7F5D1',
300: '#87E9AF',
400: '#5AD88F',
500: '#37BD6F',
600: '#329059',
700: '#296642',
800: '#1E432D',
900: '#14291D',
},
}
$base: #39E480; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FEF6; $base-100: #DAFBE8; $base-200: #B7F5D1; $base-300: #87E9AF; $base-400: #5AD88F; $base-500: #37BD6F; $base-600: #329059; $base-700: #296642; $base-800: #1E432D; $base-900: #14291D; $base-hover: #1BC964; $base-subtle: #CAF1DA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#39E480",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FEF6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DAFBE8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B7F5D1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#87E9AF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5AD88F",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#37BD6F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#329059",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#296642",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1E432D",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#14291D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}