Citrus Grove
Open in tool →Orange, lime leaf and lemon — a citrus palette that reads fresh, for drinks, produce and anything seasonal.
Color
#8ec959
#8ec959
hex
#8ec959rgb
rgb(142, 201, 89)hsl
hsl(92, 51%, 57%)oklch
oklch(0.771 0.156 132.2)Closest name: Aromatic Herbs (#98c945)Relative luminance 0.4825
Colors that go with #8ec959
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 #8ec959: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Blue #0000ff
shipped4 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and Unity's brand system put Blue beside #8ec959, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #8ec959 in 4 real palettes, including Undergrowth and Forest Floor, as the supporting colour.
Deep Sky Blue #00bfff
triadicshippedDeep Sky Blue completes a triad with #8ec959 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #8ec959 in 5 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 Noir Beauty put Slate Gray beside #8ec959, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #8ec959 in 14 real palettes, including Citrus Grove and Acer's brand system, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #8ec959 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 #8ec959
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #8ec959 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 1.97:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 10.65:1 | 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 #8ec959 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 #8ec959
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 #8ec959 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/8ec959-acbea2-564edf-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