Color
#8cb757
#8cb757rgb(140, 183, 87)hsl(87, 40%, 53%)oklch(0.727 0.134 129.2)Colors that go with #8cb757
Charcoal, Blue 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 #8cb757: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shippedBlue is paired with #8cb757 in 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Spotify's brand system, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shippedChampagne is paired with #8cb757 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe, as the text colour against it — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDodger Blue is paired with #8cb757 in 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Playground, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8cb757 in 5 real palettes, including Pine & Birch and Neon's brand system, as the lead colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8cb757 in 6 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Khan Academy's brand system, as the accent — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Slate Gray #708090
shippedSlate Gray is paired with #8cb757 in 4 real palettes, including Indigo SaaS and Ledger Dark, as the supporting colour — a combination designers have actually shipped, not a computed rotation.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #8cb757 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 #8cb757
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8cb757 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.03:1 | 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 #8cb757 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 #8cb757 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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