Color
#96b979
#96b979rgb(150, 185, 121)hsl(93, 31%, 60%)oklch(0.744 0.096 131.7)Colors that go with #96b979
Charcoal, Lilac and 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.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #96b979: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #96b979 on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Lexus's brand system and League of Legends's brand system put Blue beside #96b979, as the supporting colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped5 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #96b979, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #96b979: 5 real palettes, including Desert Road and Bramble, as the lead colour.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #96b979 in 4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Undergrowth, as the supporting colour.
Dark Salmon #e9967a
triadicshippedDark Salmon completes a triad with #96b979 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #96b979: 4 real palettes, including Unity's brand system and Liquid Death's brand system, as the lead colour.
Real palettes that use #96b979
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #96b979 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.21:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9.51:1 | 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 #96b979 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 #96b979 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
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