Color
#8d982a
#8d982argb(141, 152, 42)hsl(66, 57%, 38%)oklch(0.65 0.131 115.1)Colors that go with #8d982a
Medium Purple, Dark Olive Green and Dodger Blue 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8d982a on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8d982a in 5 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #8d982a: 4 real palettes, including Spline's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8d982a in 4 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8d982a: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Greige and Ledger Dark put Slate Gray beside #8d982a, as the lead colour.
Cornflower Blue #6495ed
split-complementshippedCornflower Blue is a split-complement of #8d982a: nearly opposite, so it still pops against it, without the vibrating edge of a true complement.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #8d982a: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8d982a
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8d982a as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.15:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.66:1 | pass | pass | fail |
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Fixes keep hue and saturation and move lightness only, so the suggestion stays on-brand. Ratios are symmetric: the same numbers apply with #8d982a 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 #8d982a and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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