#BDF9DA is a soft, temperate teal-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 #BDF9DA works with other colors. Named schemes with #BDF9DA 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 keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal 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.
Tea Green holds the warm center of this desert palette with sand and clay beside it, a muted-sage accent and a dark-brown 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 #BDF9DA 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 #BDF9DA at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BDF9DA;
--color-base-rgb: 189 249 218;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.3% 0.074 162.1);
--color-50: #F0FEF7;
--color-100: #D9FDEA;
--color-200: #B4F8D5;
--color-300: #82EDB6;
--color-400: #54DE97;
--color-500: #31C378;
--color-600: #2D955F;
--color-700: #266946;
--color-800: #1C4430;
--color-900: #132A1E;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F0FEF7',
100: '#D9FDEA',
200: '#B4F8D5',
300: '#82EDB6',
400: '#54DE97',
500: '#31C378',
600: '#2D955F',
700: '#266946',
800: '#1C4430',
900: '#132A1E',
},
}
$base: #BDF9DA; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F0FEF7; $base-100: #D9FDEA; $base-200: #B4F8D5; $base-300: #82EDB6; $base-400: #54DE97; $base-500: #31C378; $base-600: #2D955F; $base-700: #266946; $base-800: #1C4430; $base-900: #132A1E; $base-hover: #6DF1AD; $base-subtle: #EEFBF4;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BDF9DA",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F0FEF7",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D9FDEA",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B4F8D5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#82EDB6",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#54DE97",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#31C378",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2D955F",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#266946",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1C4430",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132A1E",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}