Color

#8bb196

#8bb196
hex#8bb196
rgbrgb(139, 177, 150)
hslhsl(137, 20%, 62%)
oklchoklch(0.725 0.057 153.9)
Closest name: Beau Monde (#7db39e)Relative luminance 0.3914

Colors that go with #8bb196

Charcoal, Blue and Burlywood 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.

Real palettes that use #8bb196

Tints & shades

Every swatch is its own page — click any to analyze it.

Harmonies

Complementary

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#b18ba6

#93b18b · #8bb1a9

#968bb1 · #b1968b

Split-complementary

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#a98bb1 · #b18b93

#8b93b1 · #b18ba6 · #b1a98b

Contrast

#8bb196 as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.38:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #547d5f as the text (4.69:1)
  • AAA: use #3f5f48 as the text (7.14:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #3d3d3d (4.57:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #1c1c1c (7.16:1)
Aaon black
8.83:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8bb196 as the background.

Brands using this color

No public brand in the corpus uses this exact color yet. Extract a brand to add one.

Palettes built around it

mcpConnect your agent — build around #8bb196
live endpoint

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.

endpointhttps://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt

analyze #8bb196 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8bb196-a2bead-bb59d4-1f2d29-ebf1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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Machine-readable: color.md