Color
#85a121
#85a121rgb(133, 161, 33)hsl(73, 66%, 38%)oklch(0.665 0.15 121.8)Colors that go with #85a121
Medium Purple, Blue and Charcoal 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #85a121 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Spotify's brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #85a121, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #85a121: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85a121 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #85a121: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #85a121 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85a121 in 15 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Acer's brand system, as the surface under it.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #85a121: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #85a121
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85a121 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.95:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.12:1 | 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 #85a121 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 #85a121 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85a121-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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