Color
#8ba522
#8ba522rgb(139, 165, 34)hsl(72, 66%, 39%)oklch(0.679 0.151 120.8)Colors that go with #8ba522
Medium Purple, Blue and Charcoal 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8ba522 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 Minecraft's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #8ba522, as the accent.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8ba522: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8ba522 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8ba522: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Unity's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8ba522 in 5 real palettes, including Console Light and Telehealth, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS put Slate Gray beside #8ba522, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8ba522 in 17 real palettes, including Acer's brand system and Undergrowth, as the text colour against it.
Real palettes that use #8ba522
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ba522 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.8:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.5:1 | 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 #8ba522 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 #8ba522 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/8ba522-b5bea2-4e77df-242d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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