Color
#899d39
#899d39rgb(137, 157, 57)hsl(72, 47%, 42%)oklch(0.66 0.127 119.6)Colors that go with #899d39
Dark Olive Green, Saddle Brown and Slate Gray 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.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #899d39 in 6 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #899d39 in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #899d39 in 5 real palettes, including Greige and Ledger Dark, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #899d39 in 19 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Homestead, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Wheat #f5deb3
shippedWheat is paired with #899d39 in 4 real palettes, including Candlelight and Pine & Birch, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryMedium Purple sits directly opposite #899d39 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #899d39: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #899d39: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #899d39
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #899d39 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.02:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.95:1 | 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 #899d39 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 #899d39 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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