Color
#5aaa55
#5aaa55rgb(90, 170, 85)hsl(116, 33%, 50%)oklch(0.667 0.144 142.6)Colors that go with #5aaa55
Charcoal, Taupe and Medium Orchid 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 #5aaa55: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #5aaa55 in 11 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Meadow, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #5aaa55 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #5aaa55 in 3 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #5aaa55 in 3 real palettes, including Playground and Citrus Grove, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Midnight Blue #191970
shippedMidnight Blue is paired with #5aaa55 in 3 real palettes, including Telehealth and Fintech Trust, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #5aaa55 in 3 real palettes, including Meadow and Citrus Grove, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #5aaa55 in 3 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Greige, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #5aaa55
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #5aaa55 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.87:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.32:1 | 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 #5aaa55 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 #5aaa55 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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