Color
#8aab30
#8aab30rgb(138, 171, 48)hsl(76, 56%, 43%)oklch(0.693 0.151 123.5)Colors that go with #8aab30
Dark Olive Green, Slate Gray and Taupe 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 #8aab30 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8aab30 in 5 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8aab30 in 11 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Meadow, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8aab30 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 #8aab30: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8aab30 in 3 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8aab30: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Orange #ff8c00
shippedDark Orange is paired with #8aab30 in 3 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Playground, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Real palettes that use #8aab30
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8aab30 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.64:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.95:1 | 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 #8aab30 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 #8aab30 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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