#ABDE85 is a soft, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how #ABDE85 works with other colors. Named schemes with #ABDE85 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Light Green leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Light Green opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Light 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 Light Green as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Light 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 Light Green carrying the quiet middle.
How #ABDE85 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 #ABDE85 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ABDE85;
--color-base-rgb: 171 222 133;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(84.4% 0.129 132.8);
--color-50: #F7FCF3;
--color-100: #E9F7DE;
--color-200: #D3EDBF;
--color-300: #B3DC93;
--color-400: #93C86A;
--color-500: #74AD48;
--color-600: #5C843D;
--color-700: #445E30;
--color-800: #2F3E23;
--color-900: #1E2617;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
light-green: {
50: '#F7FCF3',
100: '#E9F7DE',
200: '#D3EDBF',
300: '#B3DC93',
400: '#93C86A',
500: '#74AD48',
600: '#5C843D',
700: '#445E30',
800: '#2F3E23',
900: '#1E2617',
},
}
$base: #ABDE85; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F7FCF3; $base-100: #E9F7DE; $base-200: #D3EDBF; $base-300: #B3DC93; $base-400: #93C86A; $base-500: #74AD48; $base-600: #5C843D; $base-700: #445E30; $base-800: #2F3E23; $base-900: #1E2617; $base-hover: #86CF4F; $base-subtle: #E7F2DE;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ABDE85",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F7FCF3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E9F7DE",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D3EDBF",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#B3DC93",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#93C86A",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#74AD48",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#5C843D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#445E30",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2F3E23",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1E2617",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}