Color
#8b9518
#8b9518rgb(139, 149, 24)hsl(65, 72%, 34%)oklch(0.64 0.138 114.5)Colors that go with #8b9518
Charcoal, Medium Purple 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 #8b9518: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8b9518 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8b9518, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8b9518 in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Denim #1560bd
shippedDesigners have shipped Denim with #8b9518: 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Intel's brand system, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8b9518 in 6 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Greige and Atelier put Slate Gray beside #8b9518, as the lead colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8b9518 in 17 real palettes, including Cider and Undergrowth, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8b9518
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8b9518 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.28:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.41:1 | 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 #8b9518 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 #8b9518 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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