Color
#8e950f
#8e950frgb(142, 149, 15)hsl(63, 82%, 32%)oklch(0.643 0.14 113.1)Colors that go with #8e950f
Medium Purple, Champagne 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.
Medium Purple #9370db
complementaryshippedMedium Purple sits directly opposite #8e950f on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Coffee Bar put Champagne beside #8e950f, as that palette's text colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8e950f in 5 real palettes, including Cider and Undergrowth, as the accent.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8e950f in 5 real palettes, including Guinness's brand system and Console Light, as the supporting colour.
Saddle Brown #8b4513
shippedDesigners have shipped Saddle Brown with #8e950f: 4 real palettes, including Cider and Homestead, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped5 real palettes, including Greige and Atelier put Slate Gray beside #8e950f, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
split-complementshippedDodger Blue is a split-complement of #8e950f: 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 #8e950f: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Real palettes that use #8e950f
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8e950f as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 3.25:1 | fail | pass | fail | |
Aaon black | 6.46:1 | 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 #8e950f 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 #8e950f and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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