Light warm green

Where it sits

Light Spring palette

Light warm green is an anchor color in Light Spring. The nearest color on the same side of the warm–cool line is Bright warm green #8CC542, a True Spring color, at a distance of 13: close enough to mistake for it on a hanger, far enough to tell apart on a person.

At RGB 169, 214, 106 the green leads, the red is well above the blue, and all three are lifted. The red above the blue is what makes it yellow-green and warm; the lift is what makes it light. It is the green of spring leaves or a pistachio. Darken it and push the saturation and it becomes True Spring's bright warm green; add grey and it becomes Soft Autumn's sage.

A Light Spring wears it as a fresh color: a knit, a blouse, a summer dress, a cardigan. It warms the skin without the weight of a darker green. It works with cream, light camel, soft stone and light warm grey, and with Light Spring's apricot, light warm pink and light golden yellow for something more playful.

Retail calls it pistachio, celery, pear, lime sorbet, spring green and fern. Pistachio is the most reliable name; celery can be greyed. Mint is a different color, a blue-green, and belongs to a different part of the palette. In fall and winter this green almost disappears from stores, so spring is when to look.

Easily confused with

The nearest colors are True Spring's bright warm green at thirteen points and Bright Spring's warm bright green at seventeen; both are stronger, and on a Light Spring they can look a shade loud at the face. True Spring's grass green is twenty points off. Everything else is over thirty points away: Soft Autumn's buttermilk and True Autumn's moss are muted, and the Winter emeralds are blue. Sage, which looks similar at a glance, is a Soft Autumn color with grey in it.

The nearest named colors in other seasons, by perceptual distance (ΔE in CIELAB; under 10 is hard to tell apart on a screen, over 25 is a different color).

In stock in this color today

As of November 11, 2026, 2 in-stock pieces across Boden sample within a close match of #A9D66A. The dot on each card is the color we sampled from the garment itself; trust it over the photograph. Links are affiliate links: we earn a commission when you buy through them, at no cost to you.

Elsie Cashmere Tank

Sweet Mint

$149 at Boden

Elsie Cashmere Crew Cardigan

Sweet Mint

$190 at Boden

What it's sold as

Retailers almost never use the palette name. These are the color names on the in-stock pieces that sample within a close match of #A9D66A today, so they are the words to search for.

Boden

Sweet Mint

A retailer's name for a color says nothing about its undertone. "Navy" at one shop is a True Winter color and at another a Spring one. The sampled dot on each card above is what we trust.

Questions

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