Color
#8ca540
#8ca540rgb(140, 165, 64)hsl(75, 44%, 45%)oklch(0.682 0.131 121.7)Colors that go with #8ca540
Charcoal, Champagne and Copper 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 #8ca540: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8ca540 in 5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Copper #b87333
shippedCopper is paired with #8ca540 in 4 real palettes, including Clean Beauty and Bakery, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green is paired with #8ca540 in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedSaddle Brown is paired with #8ca540 in 4 real palettes, including Homestead and Cider, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8ca540 in 6 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Greige, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8ca540 in 17 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Olive Grove, as the surface under it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8ca540 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Real palettes that use #8ca540
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ca540 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.77:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 7.57:1 | 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 #8ca540 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 #8ca540 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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