Color
#85a52c
#85a52crgb(133, 165, 44)hsl(76, 58%, 41%)oklch(0.675 0.148 123.5)Colors that go with #85a52c
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 #85a52c 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 Minecraft's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #85a52c, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #85a52c: 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 #85a52c in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #85a52c: 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 #85a52c in 6 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #85a52c in 18 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 #85a52c: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Real palettes that use #85a52c
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85a52c as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.83:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.42:1 | 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 #85a52c 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 #85a52c and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/85a52c-b3bea2-4e6edf-232d1f-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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