Color
#51bd73
#51bd73rgb(81, 189, 115)hsl(139, 45%, 53%)oklch(0.717 0.147 151.3)Colors that go with #51bd73
Charcoal, Blue 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 #51bd73: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #51bd73, as the supporting colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #51bd73 — 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 #51bd73 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shipped5 real palettes, including Meadow and Citrus Grove put Mustard Yellow beside #51bd73, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #51bd73 in 5 real palettes, including Khan Academy's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the accent.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #51bd73 in 17 real palettes, including Chime's brand system and Obsidian's brand system, as the lead colour.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #51bd73 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 #51bd73
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #51bd73 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.37:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.88:1 | 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 #51bd73 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 #51bd73 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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