Citrus Grove
Open in tool →Orange, lime leaf and lemon — a citrus palette that reads fresh, for drinks, produce and anything seasonal.
Color
#8cc256
#8cc256
hex
#8cc256rgb
rgb(140, 194, 86)hsl
hsl(90, 47%, 55%)oklch
oklch(0.753 0.151 131.3)Closest name: Emerald Rain (#80c872)Relative luminance 0.4483
Colors that go with #8cc256
Charcoal, Blue and Dark Olive Green 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 #8cc256: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #8cc256, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8cc256 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Hunter Green #355e3b
shippedHunter Green is paired with #8cc256 in 4 real palettes, including Neon's brand system and Pine & Birch, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8cc256 in 4 real palettes, including Brilliant's brand system and Docker's brand system, as the accent.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Indigo SaaS put Slate Gray beside #8cc256, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8cc256 in 16 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Acer's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #8cc256 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 #8cc256
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8cc256 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.11:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.97:1 | 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 #8cc256 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 #8cc256
live endpointPoint 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.
endpoint
https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcpclaude mcp add --transport http brandsweets-colors https://mcp.brandsweets.com/colors/mcp
try this prompt
›analyze #8cc256 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8cc256-adbea2-514edf-202d1f-f1f1e9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
Machine-readable: color.md