diff --git a/frontend/src/styles/_colors.scss b/frontend/src/styles/_colors.scss
index ca250b293a..e7ba7fc5c8 100644
--- a/frontend/src/styles/_colors.scss
+++ b/frontend/src/styles/_colors.scss
@@ -303,7 +303,8 @@ $mui-colors: (
   'github': (
     'title-background': #FAFBFC,
     'border': #E1E4E8,
-    'authored-code-background': #E6FFED,
+    'full-authored-code-background': #C8E6C9,
+    'partial-authored-code-background': #E6FFED,
   ),
   'grey': (
     '50': #FAFAFA,
diff --git a/frontend/src/views/c-authorship.vue b/frontend/src/views/c-authorship.vue
index 7222b86146..550025dfd6 100644
--- a/frontend/src/views/c-authorship.vue
+++ b/frontend/src/views/c-authorship.vue
@@ -984,7 +984,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
     .segment {
       border-left: .25rem solid mui-color('green');
       .code {
-        background-color: mui-color('github', 'authored-code-background');
+        background-color: mui-color('github', 'full-authored-code-background');
         padding-left: 1rem;
       }
       .line-number {
@@ -1009,7 +1009,7 @@ export default defineComponent({
       }
       &.isNotFullCredit {
         .code {
-          background-color: mui-color('green', '100');
+          background-color: mui-color('github', 'partial-authored-code-background');
         }
       }
       &.untouched {