Color
#42700a
#42700argb(66, 112, 10)hsl(87, 84%, 24%)oklch(0.493 0.133 132.5)Colors that go with #42700a
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim lead the list. Each partner is a real named colour with the reason it works — a wheel relationship, a neutral that carries it, or a pairing lifted from a palette or brand system that actually shipped — and every pair opens in the palette tool.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #42700a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #42700a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
triadicshippedDenim completes a triad with #42700a — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Sage Green #9caf88
shippedDesigners have shipped Sage Green with #42700a: 5 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #42700a in 12 real palettes, including Cider and 7-Eleven's brand system, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #42700a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Violet Red #c71585
split-complementshippedMedium Violet Red is a split-complement of #42700a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Blue #0000ff
shipped3 real palettes, including Warp's brand system and Instacart's brand system put Blue beside #42700a, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #42700a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #42700a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 5.91:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Aaon black | 3.55:1 | fail | pass | fail |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #42700a as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Fonts for this mood
#42700a reads as vivid, dark, luxury. The font library is tagged with the same vocabulary:
Point any MCP client at the shared colors endpoint and your agent gets the same engine as this page — direct_palette, edit_direction, check_palette, check_contrast — read-only, no key. Every direction it proposes comes with a /colors/d/… link: open it, lock what you like, paste the link back, and the agent edits rather than re-rolls.
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
›analyze #42700a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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