Color
#7a990b
#7a990brgb(122, 153, 11)hsl(73, 87%, 32%)oklch(0.636 0.153 123)Colors that go with #7a990b
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 #7a990b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped6 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Rolex's brand system put Blue beside #7a990b, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #7a990b in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #7a990b: 4 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #7a990b in 14 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Acer's brand system, as the surface under it.
Medium Orchid #ba55d3
complementaryMedium Orchid sits directly opposite #7a990b 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 #7a990b in 3 real palettes, including Farmers Market and Wellness, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
triadicshippedCornflower Blue completes a triad with #7a990b — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Real palettes that use #7a990b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #7a990b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.29:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.39:1 | 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 #7a990b 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 #7a990b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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