Color
#81d596
#81d596rgb(129, 213, 150)hsl(135, 50%, 67%)oklch(0.803 0.121 150.9)Colors that go with #81d596
Charcoal, Plum and Hunter 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 text near-black for #81d596: softer than #000 and cool enough to feel like part of the same palette.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryshippedPlum sits directly opposite #81d596 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #81d596 in 4 real palettes, including Canopy and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Mustard Yellow #ffdb58
shippedMustard Yellow is paired with #81d596 in 4 real palettes, including Fresh Juice 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 #81d596 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Still Water, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #81d596 in 19 real palettes, including Rain Garden and Blossom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #81d596 in 4 real palettes, including Mint Chip and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Lilac #c8a2c8
split-complementshippedLilac is a split-complement of #81d596: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #81d596
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #81d596 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.77:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 11.89:1 | 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 #81d596 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 #81d596 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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