#BDEEB2 is a soft, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads organic and grounded. It holds up as a large surface and is too pale to lead as a primary accent.
Not just a swatch — here's how #BDEEB2 works with other colors. Named schemes with #BDEEB2 in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Tea Green leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
Tea Green opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Tea 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 Tea Green as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Tea 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 Tea Green carrying the quiet middle.
How #BDEEB2 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 #BDEEB2 at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BDEEB2;
--color-base-rgb: 189 238 178;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.0% 0.095 139.9);
--color-50: #F4FDF2;
--color-100: #E2F8DD;
--color-200: #C6F0BC;
--color-300: #9DE18E;
--color-400: #77CE64;
--color-500: #57B342;
--color-600: #488939;
--color-700: #37612E;
--color-800: #274021;
--color-900: #192716;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F4FDF2',
100: '#E2F8DD',
200: '#C6F0BC',
300: '#9DE18E',
400: '#77CE64',
500: '#57B342',
600: '#488939',
700: '#37612E',
800: '#274021',
900: '#192716',
},
}
$base: #BDEEB2; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F4FDF2; $base-100: #E2F8DD; $base-200: #C6F0BC; $base-300: #9DE18E; $base-400: #77CE64; $base-500: #57B342; $base-600: #488939; $base-700: #37612E; $base-800: #274021; $base-900: #192716; $base-hover: #84DF6F; $base-subtle: #EDF8EB;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BDEEB2",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E2F8DD",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C6F0BC",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9DE18E",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#77CE64",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#57B342",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#488939",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#37612E",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#274021",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192716",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}