diff --git a/src/material/select/_m2-select.scss b/src/material/select/_m2-select.scss
index 9bf5de548e55..50228e000f5a 100644
--- a/src/material/select/_m2-select.scss
+++ b/src/material/select/_m2-select.scss
@@ -14,8 +14,9 @@
 }
 
 // Tokens that can be configured through Angular Material's color theming API.
-@function get-color-tokens($theme, $palette-name: primary) {
+@function get-color-tokens($theme, $color-variant) {
   $system: m2-utils.get-system($theme);
+  $system: m3-utils.replace-colors-with-variant($system, primary, $color-variant);
   $disabled: m3-utils.color-with-opacity(map.get($system, on-surface), 38%);
 
   @return (
@@ -25,8 +26,8 @@
     select-placeholder-text-color: map.get($system, on-surface-variant),
     select-enabled-arrow-color: map.get($system, on-surface-variant),
     select-disabled-arrow-color: $disabled,
-    select-focused-arrow-color: inspection.get-theme-color($theme, $palette-name, default, 0.87),
-    select-invalid-arrow-color: inspection.get-theme-color($theme, warn, default, 0.87),
+    select-focused-arrow-color: map.get($system, primary),
+    select-invalid-arrow-color: map.get($system, error),
   );
 }
 
diff --git a/src/material/select/_select-theme.scss b/src/material/select/_select-theme.scss
index 77272eb4fae0..2dbbf86ee529 100644
--- a/src/material/select/_select-theme.scss
+++ b/src/material/select/_select-theme.scss
@@ -30,14 +30,17 @@
         map.get(m3-select.get-tokens($theme, $color-variant), color));
   } @else {
     @include sass-utils.current-selector-or-root() {
-      @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme));
+      @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(
+          m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme, primary));
 
       .mat-mdc-form-field.mat-accent {
-        @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme, accent));
+        @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(
+            m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme, secondary));
       }
 
       .mat-mdc-form-field.mat-warn {
-        @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme, warn));
+        @include token-utils.create-token-values-mixed(
+            m2-select.get-color-tokens($theme, error));
       }
     }
   }