Green Yellow is a mid-toned, temperate green. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, bold and ownable. It is too pale to lead as a primary accent and sits well as a supporting tone.
Not just a swatch — here's how Green Yellow works with other colors. Named schemes with Green Yellow in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Green Yellow glows at the center of this sunset palette, joined by coral and gold, deepened by a plum anchor and cooled with cream.
Green Yellow 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 Green Yellow as the dominant warm neutral, balanced by muted terracotta and olive earth tones and grounded by a deep espresso anchor.
Green Yellow 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 Green Yellow carrying the quiet middle.
Green Yellow carries the depth in this luxury scheme, offset by a brass accent and near-black and held together by a deep neutral and an off-white surface.
How Green Yellow 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 Green Yellow at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #ADFF2F;
--color-base-rgb: 173 255 47;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(91.3% 0.233 130.0);
--color-50: #F9FEF0;
--color-100: #EEFDD8;
--color-200: #DEFCB1;
--color-300: #C5F877;
--color-400: #AAEC46;
--color-500: #8CD222;
--color-600: #6D9F23;
--color-700: #4F701F;
--color-800: #354818;
--color-900: #212C11;
--color-on-base: #141310;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
green-yellow: {
50: '#F9FEF0',
100: '#EEFDD8',
200: '#DEFCB1',
300: '#C5F877',
400: '#AAEC46',
500: '#8CD222',
600: '#6D9F23',
700: '#4F701F',
800: '#354818',
900: '#212C11',
},
}
$base: #ADFF2F; $base-ink: #141310; $base-50: #F9FEF0; $base-100: #EEFDD8; $base-200: #DEFCB1; $base-300: #C5F877; $base-400: #AAEC46; $base-500: #8CD222; $base-600: #6D9F23; $base-700: #4F701F; $base-800: #354818; $base-900: #212C11; $base-hover: #90F100; $base-subtle: #E4F7C8;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#ADFF2F",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#141310",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F9FEF0",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#EEFDD8",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#DEFCB1",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#C5F877",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#AAEC46",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#8CD222",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#6D9F23",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#4F701F",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#354818",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#212C11",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}