Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a0aa7d
#a0aa7d
hex
#a0aa7drgb
rgb(160, 170, 125)hsl
hsl(73, 21%, 58%)oklch
oklch(0.718 0.063 118.2)Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.377
Colors that go with #a0aa7d
Charcoal, Lilac and Blush Pink 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 #a0aa7d: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a0aa7d on the wheel — the strongest contrast one hue can give another, so use it small: a button, a link colour, one highlight.
Blush Pink #e8b4b8
shipped4 real palettes, including Garden Wedding and Estate put Blush Pink beside #a0aa7d, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a0aa7d in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a0aa7d, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a0aa7d: 8 real palettes, including Riverbed and Bakery, as the accent.
Dark Olive Green #556b2f
shippedDark Olive Green shows up next to #a0aa7d in 6 real palettes, including Olive Grove and Forest Floor, as the lead colour.
Dodger Blue #1e90ff
shippedDesigners have shipped Dodger Blue with #a0aa7d: 4 real palettes, including Liquid Death's brand system and Spline's brand system, as the supporting colour.
Real palettes that use #a0aa7d
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a0aa7d as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.46:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.54:1 | 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 #a0aa7d 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 #a0aa7d
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 #a0aa7d and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a0aa7d-b5bea2-4e75df-242d1f-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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