#4DE181 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 #4DE181 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4DE181 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Malachite leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Malachite opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Malachite keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
This palette keeps Malachite as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
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.
How #4DE181 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 #4DE181 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4DE181;
--color-base-rgb: 77 225 129;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(80.9% 0.184 151.4);
--color-50: #F1FDF6;
--color-100: #DBFAE6;
--color-200: #B9F3CE;
--color-300: #8AE5AA;
--color-400: #5ED487;
--color-500: #3CB968;
--color-600: #358D54;
--color-700: #2B643F;
--color-800: #1F422B;
--color-900: #15281C;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
malachite: {
50: '#F1FDF6',
100: '#DBFAE6',
200: '#B9F3CE',
300: '#8AE5AA',
400: '#5ED487',
500: '#3CB968',
600: '#358D54',
700: '#2B643F',
800: '#1F422B',
900: '#15281C',
},
}
$base: #4DE181; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FDF6; $base-100: #DBFAE6; $base-200: #B9F3CE; $base-300: #8AE5AA; $base-400: #5ED487; $base-500: #3CB968; $base-600: #358D54; $base-700: #2B643F; $base-800: #1F422B; $base-900: #15281C; $base-hover: #23CE5F; $base-subtle: #CFF1DB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4DE181",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FDF6",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#DBFAE6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B9F3CE",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#8AE5AA",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#5ED487",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#3CB968",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#358D54",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#2B643F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1F422B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#15281C",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}