Ambrosia
#c6e1bc
Soft, balanced green for airy panels and sections
About Ambrosia
Ambrosia sits darker and richer than everything around it, it's got actual color weight. Where Airy Fields plays at being neutral and Breath of Celery leans into pale sage territory, this one commits to being visibly green without looking cartoonish. It's the shade that reads as deliberate choice, not restraint.
Use it on product dashboards, nature editorial, and health/wellness interfaces where you need green that doesn't whisper. It works especially well in background roles for botanical content, app design systems, and data visualization where you want color presence without saturation that fatigues. Pair it with charcoal type or deep accents and it holds its own. It's darker than April Showers but still soft enough to function as a secondary background color.
The thing: it's warm enough to sit comfortably next to cream and off-white, but test it against pure bright white first, it'll read noticeably greener there. That's not a flaw; that's actually useful information for where you place it in a layout.
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WCAG 2.1 contrast ratios. AA requires 4.5:1 for normal text, 3:1 for large. AAA requires 7:1 / 4.5:1.
On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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