Color
#79970c
#79970crgb(121, 151, 12)hsl(73, 85%, 32%)oklch(0.631 0.151 122.8)Colors that go with #79970c
Charcoal, Blue and Dark Olive Green 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 #79970c: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Rolex's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #79970c, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #79970c in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #79970c: 4 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Steel Blue #4682b4
triadicshippedSteel Blue completes a triad with #79970c — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #79970c in 13 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Acer's brand system, as the surface under it.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #79970c on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Chocolate #d2691e
shippedChocolate shows up next to #79970c in 3 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Wellness, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #79970c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #79970c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.36:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.24:1 | 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 #79970c 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 #79970c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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