#DCE7BB 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 #DCE7BB works with other colors. Named schemes with #DCE7BB in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
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 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 leads this botanical set among foliage greens and a terracotta accent, softened by cream and grounded in bark brown.
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 #DCE7BB 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 #DCE7BB at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #DCE7BB;
--color-base-rgb: 220 231 187;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(90.8% 0.059 119.0);
--color-50: #F9FBF3;
--color-100: #F0F5E0;
--color-200: #E0EAC3;
--color-300: #C7D799;
--color-400: #ADC171;
--color-500: #90A550;
--color-600: #707F43;
--color-700: #515B34;
--color-800: #363C25;
--color-900: #222518;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
tea-green: {
50: '#F9FBF3',
100: '#F0F5E0',
200: '#E0EAC3',
300: '#C7D799',
400: '#ADC171',
500: '#90A550',
600: '#707F43',
700: '#515B34',
800: '#363C25',
900: '#222518',
},
}
$base: #DCE7BB; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F9FBF3; $base-100: #F0F5E0; $base-200: #E0EAC3; $base-300: #C7D799; $base-400: #ADC171; $base-500: #90A550; $base-600: #707F43; $base-700: #515B34; $base-800: #363C25; $base-900: #222518; $base-hover: #BCD17D; $base-subtle: #F4F6EC;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#DCE7BB",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9FBF3",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#F0F5E0",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#E0EAC3",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C7D799",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#ADC171",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#90A550",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#707F43",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#515B34",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#363C25",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#222518",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}