#87D110 is a mid-toned, temperate 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 #87D110 works with other colors. Named schemes with #87D110 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Yellow Green glows at the center of this sunset palette, joined by coral and gold, deepened by a plum anchor and cooled with cream.
Yellow 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.
This palette keeps Yellow Green as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Yellow 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 Yellow Green carrying the quiet middle.
Yellow Green carries the depth in this luxury scheme, offset by a brass accent and near-black and held together by a deep neutral and an off-white surface.
How #87D110 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 #87D110 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #87D110;
--color-base-rgb: 135 209 16;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(78.2% 0.210 130.8);
--color-50: #F9FEF0;
--color-100: #EFFDD8;
--color-200: #DEF9B3;
--color-300: #C5EF80;
--color-400: #AAE052;
--color-500: #8CC62F;
--color-600: #6D962B;
--color-700: #506A25;
--color-800: #35451C;
--color-900: #212A13;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
yellow-green: {
50: '#F9FEF0',
100: '#EFFDD8',
200: '#DEF9B3',
300: '#C5EF80',
400: '#AAE052',
500: '#8CC62F',
600: '#6D962B',
700: '#506A25',
800: '#35451C',
900: '#212A13',
},
}
$base: #87D110; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F9FEF0; $base-100: #EFFDD8; $base-200: #DEF9B3; $base-300: #C5EF80; $base-400: #AAE052; $base-500: #8CC62F; $base-600: #6D962B; $base-700: #506A25; $base-800: #35451C; $base-900: #212A13; $base-hover: #6CA70D; $base-subtle: #DBF0B8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#87D110",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9FEF0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EFFDD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DEF9B3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5EF80",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AAE052",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8CC62F",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6D962B",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#506A25",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#35451C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#212A13",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}