Color
#55aa71
#55aa71rgb(85, 170, 113)hsl(140, 33%, 50%)oklch(0.67 0.119 152.7)Colors that go with #55aa71
Charcoal, Crimson and Denim 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 #55aa71: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #55aa71 in 4 real palettes, including DuckDuckGo's brand system and Diner, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDenim is paired with #55aa71 in 5 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #55aa71 in 5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Telehealth, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #55aa71 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Greige, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #55aa71 in 16 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Resort, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #55aa71 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Medium Purple #9370db
split-complementshippedMedium Purple is a split-complement of #55aa71: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #55aa71
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55aa71 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.85:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.37:1 | 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 #55aa71 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 #55aa71 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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