Olive Grove
Open in tool →Olive and straw with a rust accent — Mediterranean and unhurried; good for food, wine and hospitality.
Color
#a5ab69
#a5ab69
hex
#a5ab69rgb
rgb(165, 171, 105)hsl
hsl(65, 28%, 54%)oklch
oklch(0.721 0.088 112.9)Closest name: Cardamom (#aaaa77)Relative luminance 0.3815
Colors that go with #a5ab69
Charcoal, Emerald Green and Lilac 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 #a5ab69: its slight blue cast keeps type crisp beside a warm colour where pure #000 looks heavy.
Emerald Green #50c878
analogousshippedEmerald Green is #a5ab69's neighbour on the wheel, so the two read as one family — use it for hover states, gradients and secondary surfaces.
Lilac #c8a2c8
complementaryshippedLilac sits directly opposite #a5ab69 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 #a5ab69, as the supporting colour.
Burlywood #deb887
shippedBurlywood is paired with #a5ab69 in 4 real palettes, including Chalkboard and Polaroid, as the lead colour.
Cadet Blue #5f9ea0
triadicshippedCadet Blue completes a triad with #a5ab69 — three hues spaced evenly round the wheel, the classic way to get energy into a palette without a clash.
Champagne #f7e7ce
shipped6 real palettes, including Forest Floor and Darkroom put Champagne beside #a5ab69, as that palette's text colour.
Copper #b87333
shippedDesigners have shipped Copper with #a5ab69: 5 real palettes, including Bakery and Bramble, as the accent.
Real palettes that use #a5ab69
Tints & shades
Harmonies
Contrast
| #a5ab69 as text | Ratio | AA | AA large | AAA | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Aaon white | 2.43:1 | fail | fail | fail | |
Aaon black | 8.63:1 | 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 #a5ab69 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 #a5ab69
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 #a5ab69 and generate a 5-color palette that keeps it as the primary; give me the /palettes/new link
tool url
/palettes/new/a5ab69-b8bea2-4e88df-262d1f-f1eee9?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