#CAEEAC 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 #CAEEAC works with other colors. Named schemes with #CAEEAC 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 #CAEEAC 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 #CAEEAC at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CAEEAC;
--color-base-rgb: 202 238 172;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.7% 0.095 131.3);
--color-50: #F7FDF2;
--color-100: #E9F9DC;
--color-200: #D4F1BB;
--color-300: #B3E28D;
--color-400: #94D062;
--color-500: #75B540;
--color-600: #5D8A38;
--color-700: #45622D;
--color-800: #2F4021;
--color-900: #1E2816;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F7FDF2',
100: '#E9F9DC',
200: '#D4F1BB',
300: '#B3E28D',
400: '#94D062',
500: '#75B540',
600: '#5D8A38',
700: '#45622D',
800: '#2F4021',
900: '#1E2816',
},
}
$base: #CAEEAC; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F7FDF2; $base-100: #E9F9DC; $base-200: #D4F1BB; $base-300: #B3E28D; $base-400: #94D062; $base-500: #75B540; $base-600: #5D8A38; $base-700: #45622D; $base-800: #2F4021; $base-900: #1E2816; $base-hover: #9DE067; $base-subtle: #EFF7E8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CAEEAC",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F7FDF2",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E9F9DC",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#D4F1BB",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#B3E28D",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#94D062",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#75B540",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#5D8A38",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#45622D",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#2F4021",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1E2816",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}