Lily Pads
#6db083
Muted swampy mint-green for softer nature panels
About Lily Pads
Lily Pads reads like a pond-edge green that's been softened by daylight, not a cut herb or an outdoor-leaf close-up. It's medium-light, but the saturation is trimmed enough to feel calm rather than pushy. The undertone leans slightly cool, yet it doesn't go teal like Frog Pond can when the palette runs cold.
Compared to Green Goddess, this one has a more watery, leaf-surface looseness, less herb-paste crispness. Versus Bleached Olive, it keeps more green identity and less gray-warm dilution, so it doesn't sink into that weathered textile feel. I reach for Lily Pads as a primary UI or status color where you want "alive" without that sharper, more herbal edge.
It also behaves well in wellness apps and sustainability dashboards with busy imagery, where you need the green to stay legible and settled. Pair it with cool stone, pale concrete, or soft off-whites; if you drop it next to warm woods, it can look slightly too fresh and wet.
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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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