#BEFCBD 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 #BEFCBD works with other colors. Named schemes with #BEFCBD 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 #BEFCBD 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 #BEFCBD at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #BEFCBD;
--color-base-rgb: 190 252 189;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.3% 0.105 144.3);
--color-50: #F1FEF0;
--color-100: #D8FDD8;
--color-200: #B2FBB1;
--color-300: #7FF27D;
--color-400: #50E44E;
--color-500: #2DCB2A;
--color-600: #2A9A28;
--color-700: #246C23;
--color-800: #1B461B;
--color-900: #132B12;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F1FEF0',
100: '#D8FDD8',
200: '#B2FBB1',
300: '#7FF27D',
400: '#50E44E',
500: '#2DCB2A',
600: '#2A9A28',
700: '#246C23',
800: '#1B461B',
900: '#132B12',
},
}
$base: #BEFCBD; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F1FEF0; $base-100: #D8FDD8; $base-200: #B2FBB1; $base-300: #7FF27D; $base-400: #50E44E; $base-500: #2DCB2A; $base-600: #2A9A28; $base-700: #246C23; $base-800: #1B461B; $base-900: #132B12; $base-hover: #69F867; $base-subtle: #EDFCED;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#BEFCBD",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F1FEF0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#D8FDD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#B2FBB1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#7FF27D",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#50E44E",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#2DCB2A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#2A9A28",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#246C23",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#1B461B",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#132B12",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}