The green sits beside neutrals like taupe and beige in this living room, but it is the gray elements in the space — from the matte ceramics to checkered sheers — that tie everything together.

Green certainly hasn’t been absent from interior design: in the 60s and 70s, an avocado shade adorned many an American kitchen, and the Beverly Hills Hotel’s palmeral-print wallpaper remains ...

On device, the Macintosh wallpaper animates and shifts through different retro graphics, with color options that include Spectrum, Accent, Blue, Red, Purple, Yellow, Dark Gray, Gray, Green, ...