Color

#516f3e

#516f3e
hex#516f3e
rgbrgb(81, 111, 62)
hslhsl(97, 28%, 34%)
oklchoklch(0.505 0.081 134.2)
Closest name: darkolivegreen (#556b2f)Relative luminance 0.1347

Colors that go with #516f3e

Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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.

Real palettes that use #516f3e

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#5c3e6f

#696f3e · #3e6f44

#3e516f · #6f3e51

Split-complementary

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#443e6f · #6f3e69

#3e696f · #5c3e6f · #6f443e

Contrast

#516f3e as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
5.69:1passpassfail
  • AAA: use #455f35 as the text (7.14:1)
Aaon black
3.69:1failpassfail
  • AA: use #5d7f48 as the text (4.59:1)
  • AAA: use #77a35c as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #e6e6e6 (4.56:1)

Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #516f3e as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

mcpConnect your agent — build around #516f3e
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #516f3e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/516f3e-a9bea2-624edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md