Sunspill
#ddc283
Sunlit, paler chartreuse green for airy highlights
About Sunspill
Sunspill looks like a bright, sunlit butter-green wash after the glare hits. It's noticeably lighter and more gently muted than the deeper, honey-anchored 24 Karat, and it doesn't carry the cool, spring-washed lean of Honeymoon. Compared with Freshly Baked, it stays greener and cleaner, less like crusty warmth and more like pale sunlight reflected off leaves.
I use dashboards and finance apps when I need a soft highlight that reads intentional but never turns into a heavy accent. It's great for chips, filter states, and subtle section headers in B2B SaaS, especially alongside charcoal type and muted sage backgrounds. If you're building marketing pages, it also works for hero card panels and onboarding tiles where you want "light, readable, calm" rather than pale beige.
One quirk: because it's lower saturation, it can feel a touch flat next to very saturated brand greens, so give it contrast through spacing or typography weight, not just color intensity.
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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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