#BDE77E 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 #BDE77E works with other colors. Named schemes with #BDE77E in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Light Green holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown anchor.
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 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 #BDE77E 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 #BDE77E at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BDE77E;
--color-base-rgb: 189 231 126;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(87.5% 0.140 127.0);
--color-50: #F9FDF2;
--color-100: #EEF9DC;
--color-200: #DCF2BA;
--color-300: #C1E48B;
--color-400: #A4D260;
--color-500: #87B73E;
--color-600: #698C36;
--color-700: #4D632C;
--color-800: #344120;
--color-900: #202815;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
light-green: {
50: '#F9FDF2',
100: '#EEF9DC',
200: '#DCF2BA',
300: '#C1E48B',
400: '#A4D260',
500: '#87B73E',
600: '#698C36',
700: '#4D632C',
800: '#344120',
900: '#202815',
},
}
$base: #BDE77E; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F9FDF2; $base-100: #EEF9DC; $base-200: #DCF2BA; $base-300: #C1E48B; $base-400: #A4D260; $base-500: #87B73E; $base-600: #698C36; $base-700: #4D632C; $base-800: #344120; $base-900: #202815; $base-hover: #9EDC41; $base-subtle: #EAF4DC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BDE77E",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9FDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EEF9DC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DCF2BA",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C1E48B",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#A4D260",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#87B73E",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#698C36",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4D632C",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#344120",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#202815",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}