Color

#8ca17d

#8ca17d
hex#8ca17d
rgbrgb(140, 161, 125)
hslhsl(95, 16%, 56%)
oklchoklch(0.683 0.057 132.4)
Closest name: Basil (#879f84)Relative luminance 0.3255

Colors that go with #8ca17d

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.

Tints & shades

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

Harmonies

Complementary

Open in tool →

#927da1

#9ea17d · #7da180

#7d8ca1 · #a17d8c

Split-complementary

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#807da1 · #a17d9e

#7d9ea1 · #927da1 · #a1807d

Contrast

#8ca17d as textRatioAAAA largeAAAFix
Aaon white
2.8:1failfailfail
  • AA: use #687c5a as the text (4.55:1)
  • AAA: use #4d5c42 as the text (7.18:1)
  • AA: or shift the background to #333333 (4.52:1)
  • AAA: or shift the background to #0a0a0a (7.08:1)
Aaon black
7.51:1passpasspassPasses 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 #8ca17d 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 #8ca17d
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 #8ca17d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link

tool url/palettes/new/8ca17d-aabea2-5d4edf-1f2d20-f0f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrant

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