Color
#899b31
#899b31rgb(137, 155, 49)hsl(70, 52%, 40%)oklch(0.655 0.131 118.5)Colors that go with #899b31
Charcoal, Medium Purple and Blue 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 #899b31: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #899b31 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 Rolex's brand system and Lexus's brand system put Blue beside #899b31, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #899b31 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #899b31 in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #899b31: 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Cider, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Greige and Ledger Dark put Slate Gray beside #899b31, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #899b31 in 21 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Homestead, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #899b31
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #899b31 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.09:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.8:1 | 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 #899b31 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 #899b31 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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