Color
#9db42d
#9db42drgb(157, 180, 45)hsl(70, 60%, 44%)oklch(0.728 0.156 119.1)Colors that go with #9db42d
Blue, Champagne and Charcoal 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.
Blue #0000ff
shipped5 real palettes, including Minecraft's brand system and Spotify's brand system put Blue beside #9db42d, as the accent.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped4 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Midnight Luxe put Champagne beside #9db42d, as that palette's text colour.
Charcoal #36454f
neutralshippedCharcoal is the body-text near-black for #9db42d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #9db42d: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Playground, as the supporting colour.
Royal Blue #4169e1
shippedRoyal Blue is paired with #9db42d in 4 real palettes, including Disney's brand system and Brilliant's brand system, as the lead colour.
Slate Gray #708090
shipped4 real palettes, including Ledger Dark and Noir Beauty put Slate Gray beside #9db42d, as the supporting colour.
Taupe #483c32
shippedTaupe is paired with #9db42d in 17 real palettes, including Acer's brand system and Citrus Grove, as the text colour against it.
Plum #dda0dd
complementaryPlum sits directly opposite #9db42d 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 #9db42d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #9db42d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.33:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 9:1 | 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 #9db42d 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 #9db42d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
/palettes/new/9db42d-b6bea2-4e7cdf-252d1f-f1efe9?lock=0&style=vibrantWant the agent to remember your picks and write them into a living brand? Create a free BrandSweets workspace.
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