Color
#51a460
#51a460rgb(81, 164, 96)hsl(131, 34%, 48%)oklch(0.649 0.129 147.9)Colors that go with #51a460
Charcoal, Blue and Crimson 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 #51a460: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #51a460, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #51a460 in 5 real palettes, including DuckDuckGo's brand system and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #51a460: 5 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped4 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #51a460, as the text colour against it.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #51a460 in 6 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #51a460 in 19 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Clean Beauty, as the surface under it.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #51a460 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #51a460
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #51a460 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.08:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.83:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #51a460 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 #51a460 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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