#CEF9BB 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 #CEF9BB works with other colors. Named schemes with #CEF9BB 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 #CEF9BB 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 #CEF9BB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #CEF9BB;
--color-base-rgb: 206 249 187;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(93.6% 0.093 136.2);
--color-50: #F5FEF0;
--color-100: #E3FDD8;
--color-200: #C9F8B4;
--color-300: #A2EE81;
--color-400: #7DDF53;
--color-500: #5DC430;
--color-600: #4C952D;
--color-700: #3A6925;
--color-800: #28451C;
--color-900: #1A2A13;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F5FEF0',
100: '#E3FDD8',
200: '#C9F8B4',
300: '#A2EE81',
400: '#7DDF53',
500: '#5DC430',
600: '#4C952D',
700: '#3A6925',
800: '#28451C',
900: '#1A2A13',
},
}
$base: #CEF9BB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F5FEF0; $base-100: #E3FDD8; $base-200: #C9F8B4; $base-300: #A2EE81; $base-400: #7DDF53; $base-500: #5DC430; $base-600: #4C952D; $base-700: #3A6925; $base-800: #28451C; $base-900: #1A2A13; $base-hover: #92F269; $base-subtle: #F1FBEC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#CEF9BB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F5FEF0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E3FDD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C9F8B4",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#A2EE81",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#7DDF53",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#5DC430",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#4C952D",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#3A6925",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#28451C",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#1A2A13",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}