Meadow Morn
#aebea6
Soft sage-lime green for airy, light UI panels
About Meadow Morn
Meadow Morn looks like early daylight hitting a fresh field, not at peak color but held back. It's a light, gently muted green with a soft gray veil that keeps it from turning lively. Compared to Camping Grounds, it's cleaner and brighter, less weathered and less beige. Versus Bok Choy, it has a more morning-bright clarity and a touch warmer undertone, so it doesn't read as coolly grayed. And unlike Gargoyle, it stays in the green lane with less of that shadowy, dusty leaf-gray.
I reach for the one you reach for when you need the UI to feel calm without flattening into neutral. Meadow Morn shows up nicely in editorial layouts as a page surround for charts, pull quotes, and article cards, and it's great for travel and lifestyle product screens where you want backgrounds that support photography. In sustainability dashboards, it gives "fresh" without the aggression of saturated greens.
If you pair it with very warm creams, it can start to feel faint. I'd rather anchor it with charcoal text or slightly cooler off-whites for crisp separation.
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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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