Undergrowth
Open in tool →Fern and lichen with a fungus orange on a fir-black — the forest floor at dusk, as a dark theme.
Color
#85ae5b
#85ae5b
hex
#85ae5brgb
rgb(133, 174, 91)hsl
hsl(90, 34%, 52%)oklch
oklch(0.702 0.12 130.5)Closest name: Broccoli (#87b364)Relative luminance 0.3601
Colors that go with #85ae5b
Charcoal, Blue and Champagne 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 #85ae5b: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Minecraft's brand system put Blue beside #85ae5b, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #85ae5b, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #85ae5b: 5 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Bakery, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #85ae5b in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #85ae5b: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #85ae5b in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #85ae5b on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #85ae5b
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #85ae5b as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.56:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.2:1 | 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 #85ae5b as the background.
Brands using this color
No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.
Palettes built around it
mcpConnect your agent — build around #85ae5b
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #85ae5b and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/85ae5b-adbea2-514edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?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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