Color
#8ca97e
#8ca97ergb(140, 169, 126)hsl(100, 20%, 58%)oklch(0.701 0.069 135.6)Colors that go with #8ca97e
Charcoal, Burlywood 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 #8ca97e: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #8ca97e in 5 real palettes, including Polaroid and Chalkboard, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #8ca97e, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #8ca97e: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Clean Beauty, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8ca97e in 6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Olive Grove, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8ca97e: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the lead colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8ca97e in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Darkroom, as the lead colour.
Orchid #da70d6
complementaryOrchid sits directly opposite #8ca97e 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 #8ca97e
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ca97e as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.6:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.09:1 | 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 #8ca97e 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 #8ca97e and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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