Color
#48ad86
#48ad86rgb(72, 173, 134)hsl(157, 41%, 48%)oklch(0.677 0.112 164.9)Colors that go with #48ad86
Charcoal, Hot Pink and Cornflower Blue 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 text near-black for #48ad86: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Hot Pink #ff69b4
complementaryshippedHot Pink sits directly opposite #48ad86 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #48ad86 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #48ad86 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #48ad86: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped7 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Tide Pool put Midnight Blue beside #48ad86, as the text colour against it.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Diner and Meadow put Mustard Yellow beside #48ad86, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #48ad86 in 6 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #48ad86
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #48ad86 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.76:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.6:1 | pass | pass | pass | Passes AAA — no fix needed. |
Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #48ad86 as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
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 #48ad86 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/48ad86-a2beb7-d459c4-1f2c2d-e9f1ea?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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