#4E6C44 is a mid-toned, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded, with a faded, vintage edge. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how #4E6C44 works with other colors. Named schemes with #4E6C44 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Dark Olive Green leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Dark Olive Green plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Dark Olive Green 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.
Dark Olive Green 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.
Dark Olive Green 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 Dark Olive Green carrying the quiet middle.
How #4E6C44 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 #4E6C44 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #4E6C44;
--color-base-rgb: 78 108 68;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(49.7% 0.071 138.1);
--color-50: #F6F9F5;
--color-100: #E8F0E6;
--color-200: #D2E0CD;
--color-300: #B0C6A9;
--color-400: #8FAC86;
--color-500: #708F66;
--color-600: #5A6F53;
--color-700: #43513E;
--color-800: #2E362B;
--color-900: #1D221B;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
dark-olive-green: {
50: '#F6F9F5',
100: '#E8F0E6',
200: '#D2E0CD',
300: '#B0C6A9',
400: '#8FAC86',
500: '#708F66',
600: '#5A6F53',
700: '#43513E',
800: '#2E362B',
900: '#1D221B',
},
}
$base: #4E6C44; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F6F9F5; $base-100: #E8F0E6; $base-200: #D2E0CD; $base-300: #B0C6A9; $base-400: #8FAC86; $base-500: #708F66; $base-600: #5A6F53; $base-700: #43513E; $base-800: #2E362B; $base-900: #1D221B; $base-hover: #3F5837; $base-subtle: #C9D6C5;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#4E6C44",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F6F9F5",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E8F0E6",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D2E0CD",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#B0C6A9",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#8FAC86",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#708F66",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#5A6F53",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#43513E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2E362B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1D221B",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}