Color
#8a9933
#8a9933rgb(138, 153, 51)hsl(69, 50%, 40%)oklch(0.651 0.127 117.2)Colors that go with #8a9933
Charcoal, Medium Purple and Dark Olive Green 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 #8a9933: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8a9933 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8a9933 in 6 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8a9933: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8a9933 in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8a9933: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped6 real palettes, including Greige and Atelier put Slate Gray beside #8a9933, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8a9933 in 20 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Greige, as the surface under it.
Real palettes that use #8a9933
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8a9933 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.14:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.68:1 | 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 #8a9933 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 #8a9933 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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