#87DA39 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 #87DA39 works with other colors. Named schemes with #87DA39 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 #87DA39 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 #87DA39 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #87DA39;
--color-base-rgb: 135 218 57;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(80.5% 0.205 133.3);
--color-50: #F7FDF2;
--color-100: #EAF9DC;
--color-200: #D5F2BA;
--color-300: #B6E48B;
--color-400: #97D260;
--color-500: #78B73E;
--color-600: #5F8C36;
--color-700: #46632C;
--color-800: #304120;
--color-900: #1E2815;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
yellow-green: {
50: '#F7FDF2',
100: '#EAF9DC',
200: '#D5F2BA',
300: '#B6E48B',
400: '#97D260',
500: '#78B73E',
600: '#5F8C36',
700: '#46632C',
800: '#304120',
900: '#1E2815',
},
}
$base: #87DA39; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F7FDF2; $base-100: #EAF9DC; $base-200: #D5F2BA; $base-300: #B6E48B; $base-400: #97D260; $base-500: #78B73E; $base-600: #5F8C36; $base-700: #46632C; $base-800: #304120; $base-900: #1E2815; $base-hover: #6CBA22; $base-subtle: #DBEEC9;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#87DA39",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F7FDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EAF9DC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D5F2BA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#B6E48B",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#97D260",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#78B73E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#5F8C36",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#46632C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#304120",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1E2815",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}