Color
#55871c
#55871crgb(85, 135, 28)hsl(88, 66%, 32%)oklch(0.567 0.144 132)Colors that go with #55871c
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Copper 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 #55871c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
triadicshippedRoyal Blue completes a triad with #55871c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #55871c in 4 real palettes, including Wellness and Clay & Linen, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Crimson #dc143c
triadicshippedCrimson completes a triad with #55871c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #55871c in 5 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #55871c in 9 real palettes, including Instacart's brand system and Wellness, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orchid #9932cc
complementaryDark Orchid sits directly opposite #55871c 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 #55871c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #55871c
Tints & shades
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Contrast
| #55871c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 4.31:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 4.87:1 | 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 #55871c 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 #55871c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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