Sunspill

#ddc283

Sunlit, paler chartreuse green for airy highlights

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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 . Compared with , 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

Aa
1.73:1Fail

On Gray 100 #f5f5f5

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1.59:1Fail

On Gray 900 #18181b

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10.22:1AAA

On Black #000000

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12.12:1AAA

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