#4E6552 is a muted, temperate teal-green. On the Color Lab it reads restrained and easy to live with. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4E6552 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E6552 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Ebony leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Ebony plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Ebony anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Ebony 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.
Ebony 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 Ebony carrying the quiet middle.
How #4E6552 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 #4E6552 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E6552;
--color-base-rgb: 78 101 82;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(48.2% 0.041 149.8);
--color-50: #F6F8F7;
--color-100: #E8EDE9;
--color-200: #D1DBD3;
--color-300: #AFC0B2;
--color-400: #8EA492;
--color-500: #6F8673;
--color-600: #59695C;
--color-700: #424D44;
--color-800: #2D342E;
--color-900: #1D201D;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
ebony: {
50: '#F6F8F7',
100: '#E8EDE9',
200: '#D1DBD3',
300: '#AFC0B2',
400: '#8EA492',
500: '#6F8673',
600: '#59695C',
700: '#424D44',
800: '#2D342E',
900: '#1D201D',
},
}
$base: #4E6552; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F6F8F7; $base-100: #E8EDE9; $base-200: #D1DBD3; $base-300: #AFC0B2; $base-400: #8EA492; $base-500: #6F8673; $base-600: #59695C; $base-700: #424D44; $base-800: #2D342E; $base-900: #1D201D; $base-hover: #3E5141; $base-subtle: #C8D2CA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E6552",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F6F8F7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E8EDE9",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D1DBD3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#AFC0B2",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#8EA492",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#6F8673",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#59695C",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#424D44",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2D342E",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1D201D",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}