Lemongrass
Retired2009-2024 · Color No. 332
Introducing Lemongrass, made by The Fiesta Tableware Company from 2009 to 2024. It's a fresh and vibrant shade of green, reminiscent of the zesty aroma of lemongrass. Lemongrass adds a lively and energetic touch to any tablescape. Mix and match Lemongrass with colors like Ivory and Sunflower for a cheerful and summery table setting, or pair it with Plum and Slate for a more sophisticated and earthy combination.
Production
Lemongrass was retired in 2024, so it is a hunt for secondhand pieces now. Fiesta Factory Direct is where the colors still being made are, if you are filling a set.
Shop Fiesta Factory Direct (opens in a new tab)Notes on Lemongrass
Lemongrass ran fifteen years, 2009 to 2024, and it's one of the brightest things Fiesta has ever made - a light, acid yellow-green with enormous saturation. It sits very close to both the vintage and Post 86 Chartreuses, effectively continuing that idea for a much longer run. It's a lead color and an assertive one: it will dominate whatever you put next to it, which is either the point or the problem depending on the table. It retired in 2024 alongside Mulberry and Butterscotch, in one of the bigger clear-outs of recent years.
Using Lemongrass on a table
Lemongrass carries enough color to lead a table on its own. Use it for the plates and let quieter pieces do the rest; two or three settings of it go a long way. At L* 87 it is one of the paler glazes in the line: dark food reads sharply against it, pale food much less so. It nearly disappears against a white cloth (1.4:1), so it shows best on dark wood or a colored runner.
Below, 5 combinations built only from colors Fiesta has actually produced. Each says which rule it follows, and which pieces you can still buy today.
The pairing in its own description
Named in the descriptionThese colors are named alongside Lemongrass in this guide's description of it.
Buy these to go with it
Lemongrass was retired in 2024, but these are all in production now - the set you can actually finish buying.
Opposite on the wheel
Lavender sits roughly opposite Lemongrass in hue, which is the highest-contrast pairing the palette offers. The neutrals keep it from shouting.
All green
Every color here is from the green family, arranged light to dark. A single-family table reads calm and deliberate rather than busy.
- Sea Mist Green
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Your color Lemongrass
- Forest Green
- Evergreen
Three-way split
Juniper and Heather sit about a third of the way around the color wheel from Lemongrass in each direction. Evenly spaced hues stay lively without any one taking over.
Where Lemongrass sits in the line
Lemongrass arrived while Evergreen was still in production, and is lighter and more vivid than it - a complete change of direction rather than a reformulation (ΔE 67.0). It has been in production 15 years against a median of 7 for its era - one of the colors the company kept. What else happened at the company in 2009 →
Closest colors in the palette
Ranked by CIEDE2000 (ΔE) against Lemongrass. Under about ΔE 5 two colors are hard to tell apart side by side - useful when you are identifying an unmarked piece.
On the table alongside Lemongrass
31 colors were in production at the same time. The 10 nearest in the timeline: