Color
#55aa74
#55aa74rgb(85, 170, 116)hsl(142, 33%, 50%)oklch(0.67 0.116 154)Colors that go with #55aa74
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 text near-black for #55aa74: 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 #55aa74, as the supporting colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #55aa74 in 4 real palettes, including DuckDuckGo's brand system and Diner, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #55aa74 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #55aa74: 5 real palettes, including Peacock and Intel's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #55aa74: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Midnight Blue #191970
shipped5 real palettes, including Fintech Trust and Telehealth put Midnight Blue beside #55aa74, as the text colour against it.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #55aa74 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 #55aa74
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #55aa74 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.84:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.39:1 | 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 #55aa74 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 #55aa74 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/55aa74-a2beaf-c659d4-1f2d2a-eaf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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