Poached Egg
#f5d893
Creamy, softer gold-green highlight for airy layouts
About Poached Egg
Poached Egg reads like the soft highlight you'd see on a matte porcelain plate under warm kitchen light. It's in the green family, but it doesn't go honey or peach and it doesn't feel dry like Instant Noodles. Compared to Meadow Yellow and №5, it's less punchy and more "cream-meets-lemon" in tone, with a gentle, buttery warmth that keeps it from turning lemon-sharp.
I use it when a screen needs warmth without the "sunflower" edge. It works hard as a background for food and grocery interfaces, wellness and recipe landing pages, and ingredient chip panels where you want text to feel supported, not crowded. the one you reach for when you're building cards, empty states, and onboarding screens for brands that want cozy clarity. dashboards and finance apps can also take it, but I'd keep the linework a true olive or slightly deeper green.
Quirk: beside very warm creams it can look a touch more yellow than you expected, so sanity-check it against your actual card whites.
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On White #ffffff
On Gray 100 #f5f5f5
On Gray 900 #18181b
On Black #000000
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