Color
#848740
#848740rgb(132, 135, 64)hsl(63, 36%, 39%)oklch(0.605 0.094 111.1)Colors that go with #848740
Charcoal, Royal Blue and Medium Purple 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 #848740: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Royal Blue #4169e1
split-complementshippedRoyal Blue is a split-complement of #848740: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #848740 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Bramble put Champagne beside #848740, as that palette's text colour.
Crimson #dc143c
shippedCrimson is paired with #848740 in 4 real palettes, including Five Guys's brand system and Netflix's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #848740 in 4 real palettes, including Clay & Linen and Cider, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #848740: 8 real palettes, including Intel's brand system and Jack Daniel's's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #848740: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Notion's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #848740
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #848740 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.8:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 5.52:1 | 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 #848740 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 #848740 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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