Myrtle Green is a mid-toned, cool cyan. On the Color Lab it reads clean and engineered, restrained and easy to live with. It carries a legible label as a UI accent and reproduces cleanly in print.
Not just a swatch — here's how Myrtle Green works with other colors. Named schemes with Myrtle Green in its natural role, and a note on why the supporting colors balance it.
Myrtle Green opens this coastal palette with sea-glass and warm sand alongside it, grounded by driftwood grey and a deep-navy anchor.
Myrtle Green keeps this Nordic scheme quiet — cool greys and a soft white around it, a muted-blue support and a charcoal anchor.
Myrtle Green plays the worn-leather lead, deepened by saddle brown and an oxblood anchor, softened by aged cream and cooled by a muted forest green.
Myrtle Green anchors this café scheme as the warm mid-tone, lifted by latte cream and a muted sage accent and grounded by espresso brown and a warm charcoal.
Myrtle 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 Myrtle Green carrying the quiet middle.
How Myrtle Green 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 Myrtle Green at work across the surfaces designers actually ship.
:root {
--color-base: #317873;
--color-base-rgb: 49 120 115;
--color-base-oklch: oklch(52.6% 0.071 188.9);
--color-50: #F4FBFA;
--color-100: #E2F4F2;
--color-200: #C5E7E5;
--color-300: #9CD3CF;
--color-400: #76BCB7;
--color-500: #559F9A;
--color-600: #477B78;
--color-700: #365856;
--color-800: #263B39;
--color-900: #192424;
--color-on-base: #FFFFFF;
}
// tailwind.config.js
colors: {
myrtle-green: {
50: '#F4FBFA',
100: '#E2F4F2',
200: '#C5E7E5',
300: '#9CD3CF',
400: '#76BCB7',
500: '#559F9A',
600: '#477B78',
700: '#365856',
800: '#263B39',
900: '#192424',
},
}
$base: #317873; $base-ink: #FFFFFF; $base-50: #F4FBFA; $base-100: #E2F4F2; $base-200: #C5E7E5; $base-300: #9CD3CF; $base-400: #76BCB7; $base-500: #559F9A; $base-600: #477B78; $base-700: #365856; $base-800: #263B39; $base-900: #192424; $base-hover: #27605C; $base-subtle: #BBDCDA;
{
"color": {
"base": {
"value": "#317873",
"type": "color"
},
"onBase": {
"value": "#FFFFFF",
"type": "color"
},
"scale": {
"50": {
"value": "#F4FBFA",
"type": "color"
},
"100": {
"value": "#E2F4F2",
"type": "color"
},
"200": {
"value": "#C5E7E5",
"type": "color"
},
"300": {
"value": "#9CD3CF",
"type": "color"
},
"400": {
"value": "#76BCB7",
"type": "color"
},
"500": {
"value": "#559F9A",
"type": "color"
},
"600": {
"value": "#477B78",
"type": "color"
},
"700": {
"value": "#365856",
"type": "color"
},
"800": {
"value": "#263B39",
"type": "color"
},
"900": {
"value": "#192424",
"type": "color"
}
}
}
}